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...second letter, written last October, asked for international courts to try arch war criminals like Hitler, Himmler, Mussolini. The answer, which arrived three months later, said: no. A fortnight ago Sir Cecil wrote a third letter: his resignation. This week he was succeeded by Lord Justice Finlay, eminent British jurist...
...years of public life-as Tennessee legislator, backwoods jurist, U.S. Congressman, Democratic National Committee Chairman, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State-Cordell Hull acquired a wide reputation for a single trait. Most U.S. citizens, both admirers and detractors, were convinced that Cordell Hull was a pretty tough old party who fought hard for the things he believed...
...county had officially denounced its Congressman as a "demagogue" three days before he quit. Even more important, Dies for the first time had first-rank opposition, a man who would get the labor vote, but not be tied to it. Fiftyish, iron-grey Judge Jesse Martin Combs, a vigorous jurist, has never been defeated; he is a States' rights critic of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic program but an ardent supporter of the President's foreign policy...
Died. Judge Julian William Mack, 77, pioneer Zionist leader, veteran U.S. Circuit Court jurist (1911-41); in Manhattan. Chairman of the first American Jewish Congress (1918-19), he headed the Jewish delegations to the Paris Peace Conference, was president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1918 to 1921. Under his questioning as a member of World War I's Board of Inquiry on Conscientious Objectors, Alvin York dropped his objections...
Died. Federico Cardinal Cattani-Amadori, 86, veteran Vatican jurist; of heart disease; in Rome. Papal auditor and secretary of the Apostolic Signatura ( Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Curia), he became a Cardinal in 1935. He was the sixth Cardinal to die within the last year...