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Since his retirement as Secretary of War in September 1945, Henry Lewis Stimson has been living quietly at his West Hills, L. I. estate, reading, writing up his diary and reflecting on his long years of public service...
...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...
...feel only pity," concluded Stimson, "for the casuist who would dismiss the Nazi leaders because 'they were not warned it was a crime.' They were warned and they sneered contempt. Our shame is that their contempt was so nearly justified, not that we have in the end made good our warning...
...phrase in Stimson's argument seemed to be "the conscience of the community." Did this conscience, in fact, match Nürnberg's law? The existence of treaties did not prove that the answer was yes. Convincing proof would come only if nations behaved consistently in accordance with the principles of conscience which Nürnberg assumed...