Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest living U.S. lawyers, Henry L. Stimson, this week published in the January issue of Foreign Affairs a defense of the Nurnberg verdicts.* It was not, of course, the last word, but it was authoritative (Stimson had been Secretary of War when the trials were planned), and it was written in language non-lawyers could understand...
...International law," said Stimson, "is not a body of authoritative codes or statutes; it is the gradual expression, case by case, of the moral judgments of the civilized world. As such, it corresponds precisely to the common law of Anglo-American tradition...
...Robert P. Patterson for Henry Stimson (little change...
...final evaluation of the 70-day hearings, the Democratic majority found the military to blame, found no fault in the planning or actions of the Roosevelt Administration. In a minority report Republican Senators Ferguson (Michigan) and Brewster (Maine) blamed Franklin Roosevelt and Secretaries Hull, Stimson and Knox, but necessarily found the military commanders were also slow of head and foot...
...paternalism became the watchword of a long and careful line of U.S. Governors General and High Commissioners. Roly-poly William Howard Taft began it, with a steady insistence that U.S. opportunists had no rights that abridged Filipino rights. Succeeding U.S. administrators, including W. Cameron Forbes, Leonard Wood, Henry L. Stimson, Dwight F. Davis and Justice Frank Murphy, made fair-mindedness and public works the U.S. trademark...