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...NUREMBERG, October 16 -- Ten condemned Nazi ring leaders died on the gallows in the Nuremberg jail year today, but Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler's No. 2 man, cheated the noose by swallowing poison in his cell before the death sentence was read...
...Nuremberg Court was created for the express purpose of trying the men on whom it has just passed judgment. The Court presumably of men who were considered eminently qualified to serve on it. These men have devoted ten months of palustaking, conscientious work to their task. They have heard hundreds of witnesses and examined thousands of documents. Their conclusions certainly cannot be said to be hasty...
...know the author of your editorial "Crime of Omission," but, whoever he is, I do not believe that he is as familiar with the evidence presented at Nuremberg as the judges. In viw of this I fail to see by what reason he took it upon himself to decide that the three defendants who were acquited by the Court should have been convicted, and that others should have received heavier sentences than the Court saw fit to give them. We appointed the Court to decide these very questions, and we must now respect its judgment even...
Following the pronouncement of sentences in the trial of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg yesterday, Sheldon Glueck, professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Law School, expressed the opinion that the "judgment of the International Tribunal at Nuremberg should convince even the most skeptical that justice has been done in the best legal tradition...
...most recent book, "The Nuremberg Trial and Aggressive War," he took issue with those who claimed that the trial was based on ex post facto laws and was not legitimate. Professor Glueck argued that international law is to be compared to common law, which exists without written statue, and that, therefore, there is ample precedent on which to base the indictment of the German war leaders...