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William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, was found by the Christian Century to have changed his mind about punishing Germany. At an earlier stage of the war it seemed to the Archbishop that "the peace terms must for a limited period include a penal element, if justice were to be done. But . . . those of us who believe that this intense bombing [of German cities] is justified as a military measure . . . must also recognize that it constitutes a penalty for German aggression so great that no other can be called...
Until half a century ago New Caledonia was a French penal colony. Some 15,000 convicts were dumped on its remote, mountainous shore. The white population today numbers only about 17,000. Some of them have intermarried with the dark-skinned native population...
Numerous prediction tables presented in the new work reveal the possibility of determining the kind of penal or correctional treatment from which a particular offender is most likely to benefit...
Erudite Dr. Oscar Stevenson, professor of penal law at the University of Brazil, proposed last week at Rio de Janeiro that war guilt be pinned on: 1) government leaders; 2) military executives; 3) ministers; 4) sovereigns-not on the common people of aggressor nations. In a resolution referred to a committee of the Inter-American Bar Association for further study, he urged that war criminals be tried by civilian-military courts of their fellow countrymen...
...intend to remain true to the ideals of Jefferson, Lincoln and Wilson, the armies of occupation will follow a quite different line of action. All the Fascist higher-ups and those among the lower ranks who have shown particular fanaticism, should be interned on penal islands for the duration pending the decision of the future national government. All Fascist organizations will be disbanded and their headquarters closed. Fascist uniforms, badges and flags will be forbidden. Fascist legislation limiting personal and political rights will be repealed...