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With help from Columbia Law Professor Telford Taylor and Legal Services for the Elderly Poor, he appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court. A month ago the court declined to hear his case. Most commonly, that means that the Justices do not consider the issue involved to be important enough. Presler, now 76, suffers from arteriosclerosis and has moved with his second wife to Miami Beach, where Social Security is his principal source of income. He is still undiscouraged. Of late, he has taken courses in gourmet cooking, English and creative writing...
...Surely officers in particular are expected to understand and enforce the laws of war. Calley claimed that Captain Medina gave orders to kill all My Lai villagers, presumably including women and children. Medina flatly denied this. Whatever the facts, Calley's claim gets short shrift from Columbia Law Professor Telford Taylor, who served at Nuremberg as chief counsel to the prosecution, with the rank of brigadier general. Writing in this week's LIFE, Taylor comments: "Such an order would be so flagrantly in violation of the laws of war, to say nothing of common humanity, that Calley could hardly have...
...articulated an outraged world's condemnation in the war-crime trials at the end of World War II has turned the doctrine of command responsibility directly on America's former commander in Viet Nam, General William C. Westmoreland, now Army Chief of Staff. Telford Taylor, 62, who was the chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, first adumbrated his theses-without naming names-in his book Nuremberg and Vietnam: an American Tragedy (TIME, Nov. 23, 1970). Last week, on Dick Cavett's TV talk show and in talks with newsmen later, he said that Westmoreland could be found guilty...
...Telford Taylor, a retired brigadier general and presently law professor at Columbia, said Friday night that Westmoreland could be tried by the standards on which the Japanese commander in the Philippines, General Tomayuki Yamashita, was convicted and hanged. As commanding officer, Yamashita was held responsible for not stopping atrocities committed by troops under his command...
Nuremberg and Vietnam, by Telford Taylor. A former U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials examines the question of moral responsibility for war atrocities in Southeast Asia...