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...cannot" waive his mandatory right to be tried by the House of Lords. As strongly as possible they hinted that this handsome young man, an ardent British Fascist, would much rather be tried in democratic Old Bailey where a subject convicted of manslaughter is sometimes sentenced to 15 years penal servitude...
...this love the Ogpu, according to minimum estimates, has tried in its own star chamber courts and executed in its cellars not less than 10,000 Russians; has shipped off to Siberia not less than 1,000,000 and today employs in its penal labor gangs not less than...
...almost unaskable in most countries, of whether an engaged young woman and her suitor are well adapted to each other in their physical proportions and heredities. After polite Dr. Campbell sat down last week, Chief Arthur Giitt of the German Public Health Department bluntly told the Congress: "Our penal code will shortly make compulsory a health examination for all marrying persons. The purpose of this is first to dissuade bodily or mental inferiors from marrying and especially from procreation. Second, to prevent marriages between hereditarily tainted persons, the same as a marriage between an Aryan and a non-Aryan. Third...
...more efficacious nulla crimen sine poena ('no crime left unpunished'), regardless of whether or not law has been infringed." "For the German judge as for the private citizen," continued the Minister of Justice, "the Nazi philosophy of life will be the guiding light. . . . Every clause in the penal code will have a 'danger zone.' Whoever moves in this sphere will do so at his own risk. . . . Wrong may exist, accordingly, in the Germany of the future, even where there is no law providing a punishment. No one must be lucky enough to slip through the meshes...
Pestered by Nazi newshawks for opinions on this speech, most Conference delegates discreetly praised its "frankness." Off the record, to correspondents of their own nationality, they said that Germany had been unmasked by her Minister of Justice in the act of creating a penal code which had little to do with Justice as that term is understood by Anglo-Saxons. The split between Germany and her penologist guests appeared to them so wide that a majority resolved informally to remain silent and enter no discussion. They noted with upped eyebrows that Dr. Gurtner called explicitly for "severity in the treatment...