Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nuremberg and Vietnam, by Telford Taylor. A former U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials examines the question of moral responsibility for war atrocities in Southeast Asia...
...P.O.W.s is a violation of the Geneva Convention, which North Viet Nam signed in 1957?with the reservation that it would not abide by the convention in the case of anyone it deemed a war criminal. Hanoi, in effect, has tried to apply the principles of the Nuremberg trials to U.S. captives; to the Communists, the Americans are not prisoners of war in the Geneva sense, but war criminals...
...contributions from a radio audience who heard Cassavetes plead for funds on the Jean Shepherd show late one night. His next film, Too Late Blues, was financed-and controlled-by Paramount. Stanley Kramer, executive producer of A Child Is Waiting and a director himself (On the Beach, Judgment at Nuremberg), fired Cassavetes before he could even complete editing Child...
...just been joined by two scholar-essayistsPulitzer prizewinning Historian Richard Hofstadter, who died last month after completing this volume with the help of a young colleague, and Columbia Law Professor Telford Taylor, 62, who served with the rank of brigadier general as chief U.S. counsel at the Nuremberg Trials...
Being a lawyer, Taylor is concerned with precedent. Being a humanist, he took seriously Justice Robert Jackson's famous Nuremberg remark that the example of a restraining law then applied to the Nazis would serve no useful purpose if it was not used to condemn aggression "by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment." Since alleged U.S. aggression in Viet Nam has lately been cited against the U.S. under the Nuremberg precedent by American soldiers refusing to fight, Tay lor set out to re-examine the war-crime concept with a view to fixing...