Word: nurenberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crimes question, albeit in an unofficial way. After the My Lai revelations, ten liberal members of the House of Representatives jointly sponsored the Congressional Conference on War and National Responsibility, where a number of experts on a specially invited panel expounded on matters like the relevance of the Nurenberg war crimes trials to American conduct in Vietnam, the use of experimental weapons like herbicides in jungle warfare, and the dilemmas of individuals who opposed...
...that the U.S. war effort in Vietnam was illegal soon after American troops entered combat in Indochina in large numbers. As the war dragged on through the sixties. Falk became increasingly active in the antiwar movement, and came to argue that the standards of justice applied against Nazis at Nurenberg made high U.S. officials liable for a variety of crimes against peace and humanity. But he resisted the idea that government leaders should actually come to trial. Only in 1969 did Falk become seriously troubled by the apparent contradiction in his position. "To conclude as I had that the United...
Telford Taylor, a professor of International Law at Columbia and a one-time chief prosecutor at Nurenberg, came to share Falk's conclusion that the U.S. was committing crimes of war in Vietnam, though he had started from an entirely different perspective. Taylor had begun as a proponent of the U.S. war effort against North Vietnam, which page 4/Dump Truck in part accounts for the impact of his book Nurenberg and Vietnam. Published in 1971, this book used a conservative and restricted interpretation of international law, and in it Taylor came to the painful conclusion that his government...
Wing forward Doug Quimby broke Princeton's back with an 80-yard sprint down the sideline, scrum-half Henry Nurenberg buried the Tigers with Harvard's final try, and fullback Gary Bond sealed the tomb with four more points from his two conversion kicks...
Neither can we understand that the standards of culpability established at Nurenberg a generation ago apply to Americans as well as to Germans...