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Deadline in June. In all this noise, the most important facts in the demobilization program were drowned out. Since V-E day nearly four million servicemen have been brought back from overseas. December arrivals will swell the total by another million. After World War I, it took the nation a year and a half to bring back almost 2,000,000 troops from Europe. This time they are being brought back from all over the world...
...seeming lack of it, worried many a worrier. Nobody had formulated the doubts very well. But they existed: Justice Jackson's whole statement to the Court was an attempt to meet them. He bluntly said that the charter of the Nürnberg tribunal, completed three months after V-E day, was the ex-post-facto law on which the trials were based. He cited some precedents for the master charge (the unratified Geneva Protocol of 1924, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, various League of Nations declarations treated aggressive war as an international crime). But, with more courage than legal...
...True Glory (Dday to V-E day documentary; TIME, Sept...
...True Glory (Dday to V-E day documentary; TIME, Sept...
...True Glory (Dday to V-E day documentary; TIME, Sept...