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...revolution and the practical results of nonviolent protest as applied to that Gandhian principle by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He has a rather irritating habit of claiming a monopoly on humanitarianism. In justifying civil disobedience or downright defiance of national law, he is quick to cite the Nuremberg trials, which, he insists, made it a matter of international law that the individual cannot be excused for crimes committed by government order; thus cooperating with the U.S. Government in its participation in the Viet Nam war makes a soldier criminally responsible...
North Viet Nam-a signatory of the 1949 convention-chimed in with its own flouting of the military code: henceforth, howled Hanoi, U.S. pilots downed over North Viet Nam would be regarded as "war criminals liable to go before tribunals," Nuremberg-style. The Saigon government, whose crackdown of Viet Cong terrorists was the nominal trigger of the Red reprisals, responded to the cruel dilemma. Last week, five criminals convicted of murder and rape were publicly executed in a downtown square. The life of a Viet Cong agitator was spared...
...ship of this world on its voyage to eternity." Her passengers were pimps, bigots, weaklings and other morally rumpled types, booked from Veracruz to Bremerhaven on the German vessel Vera during the early 1930s. Skirting the allegorical deeps, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer and Scenarist Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg) have turned Ship into just another showboat-a flashy popular melodrama, acted with everyman-for-himself urgency by a troupe of scintillating international stars...
...seldom discussed. France and Britain seem uninterested, and in the U.S. there is equal indifference. One reason perhaps is the recent vogue for anti-Nazi popular culture. The thud of jackboots across the bestseller lists (Armageddon, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich), the screen (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Longest Day) and the stage (The Deputy, Incident at Vichy) tends to make many Americans think of Germany in terms of its bloody past...
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) with Spencer Tracy as a judge, Richard Widmark for the prosecution and Maximilian Schell for the defense...