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...been ordered. But last week the case of Captain Howard Levy took on unexpected significance both as a precedent in military law and as a chapter in the worldwide debate over the Vietnamese war. For the first time in a U.S. military court, the war-crimes doctrine of N??rnberg was allowed as a defense strategy; those who charge the U.S. with heinous atrocities were invited to put up evidence...
Colonel Earl Brown, the law officer, or presiding official, at the Fort Jackson, S.C., trial, observed matter-of-factly: "My research discloses the N??rnberg trials involve a rule that a soldier must refuse an order to commit war crimes." If it can be shown that by obeying the order Levy was abetting the commission of atrocities, Brown said, the major charge against him would be dropped. The defense, led by Charles Morgan Jr., southeastern regional director of the American Civil Liberties Union, was so astonished at the ruling that war-crimes evidence would be heard that it had none...
...also a history of producing men on horseback, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Napoleon III to the "brav' gén??ral" Georges Boulanger, who failed to seize power only through a crucial loss of nerve in 1889. The first elected President of the Third Republic was a soldier, Marshal MacMahon; the last act of the Third Republic was to surrender its powers to another soldier, Marshal Pétain. The rebirth of France began when General de Gaulle disobeyed the Pétain government, which had made peace with the Nazis, and launched the Free French movement...
Continental Classroom (NBC, 6:30-7 a.m.). Tel ford Taylor, lawyer, writer, and a U.S. representative at the N??rnberg trials, speaks on American Government...
...house that German lead pencils built. The Fabers still live at Faber Castle, but in a former guesthouse, still manufacture pencils on the grounds, but mostly for the Military Government. Since November the castle has housed the foreign pencils and typewriters of the world's press corps covering the N??rnberg trials. Last week the frenzied work, the legendary drinking bouts were over. To one last gigantic press party went judges, prosecutors, almost everyone in N??rnberg but the defendants. Except for a brief Judgment Day reopening (Sept. 23), Faber was ready to take its little niche in journalistic history...