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With the controversy over last week's television series on the Holocaust still simmering, the appearance here of Telford Taylor, the chief counsel for the U.S. in the Nuremburg Trials, is very timely. He will speak on "Guilt and Responsibility in the Third Reich" next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Science Center...
...Telford Taylor, professor emeritus at Columbia Law School and visiting professor at the Law School, said that despite the Soviet Union's insistence that other countries not interfere in its legal system, American lawyers must try to "break through this wall...
...Says Telford Taylor, a law professor who served in intelligence during World War II: "If the safety of a city were at stake, I'd say go ahead and burn up their toenails. Absolute morality is a little hard to swallow in this kind of thing...
COURTS OF TERROR: SOVIET CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND JEWISH EMIGRATION by TELFORD TAYLOR 187 pages. Knopf. $6.95. $1.95 paperback...
Courts of Terror is the result of a human rights project that failed. Led by Telford Taylor, who was U.S. prosecutor at the Nurnberg War Crimes Trials of 1946, a group of distinguished American lawyers gained power of attorney for the relatives in Israel of 19 Jews serving sentences at various labor camps within the Soviet Union. The hope was that the Soviets would respect their own laws enough for cogent arguments by foreign colleagues to induce them to reconsider the harsh sentences meted out to the 19 Jewish prisoners. The U.S. lawyers first studied Soviet law. For months they...