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...same time: Die Meuterei auf der Caine upset their time-honored Prussian reverence for military men and military orders. The neo-Nazis found some solace in Lieut. Barney Greenwald's last-act defense of Navy discipline, insisted that the play supported the defense at the Nürnberg war criminals' trial: that subordinates are not responsible for the orders of their superiors. But most West Berliners accepted the lesson of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial as a common-sense American compromise between institutional rules and individual dignity. The Caine, like many another U.S. play, was doing a dramatic...
...Neurath, fluent linguist and brilliant diplomatist, had suavely served the Weimar Republic as Foreign Minister, then without apparent twinge of conscience served Hitler. In 1941 he finally resigned as Hitler's "Protector" of Bohemia-Moravia, but by then he had gone too far; the verdict at Nürnberg in 1946 was: "For carrying out and assuming responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy of the Nazi conspirators, and authorizing, directing and taking part in war crimes and crimes against humanity-fifteen years' imprisonment...
...attack. He drove to the nearby home of his secretary and, within minutes, Robert Houghwout Jackson was dead. In his 62 years he rose to eminence among lawyers, served with ability as U.S. Solicitor General and Attorney General, as Supreme Court Justice and as U.S. prosecutor at Nürnberg. When Jackson was named Attorney General, New Dealing Columnist Marquis Childs wrote: "If there is any single individual who represents all the qualities that commonly inhere in the term [New Dealer], it is the man who has just been made Attorney General of the U.S." But Robert Jackson could...
Outside the Law. On May 2, 1945, President Truman selected Jackson to serve as the chief U.S. prosecutor for the Nürnberg trials of Nazi war criminals. Jackson was lawyer enough to realize that the Nazi leaders were being tried on ex post facto grounds. He excused this by saying that the war criminals had been so wicked, so inhumane, that they "cannot bring themselves within the reason of the rule which in some systems of jurisprudence prohibits ex post facto laws." In his opening statement, Jackson said: "We must never forget that the record on which we judge...
Simmering Feud. For Jackson, too, Nürnberg ended sourly. Nearing the completion of his work there, he sent a bitter cable to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, accusing Justice Black of heading an anti-Jackson cabal within the Supreme Court. Headline writers had a field day before the Jackson-Black feud was returned to the privacy of the Supreme Court chambers. Even then it simmered...