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Charged with fostering an "economic spy system" for Adolf Hitler, 22 directors of the billion dollar I. C. Farben chemical trust went on trial for war crimes yesterday at Nuernberg, Germany. The Farbon officials heard the U.S. prosecution assert that they had fostered Hitler's war aims, cagerly exploited slave labor, and waged aggressive war from their laboratories...
...question," wrote Vincent Sheean in the New York Herald-Tribune last week. the acceptance of the social arrangement under a code of "white supremacy," then, went beyond the cranky rantings of Paul Bumpus, circuit Attorney General, whose pleas for hangings were on the grounds that "the trials at Nuernberg were not going to furnish enough victims," or Lynn Bomar, Tennessee's Commissioner of Safety, who raised violent objection to the addressing of Negro defendants and witnesses by "Mr.," "Mrs." or "Miss" It was not, fundamentally, a case of twenty-five Americans vs. the State, but another chapter...
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