Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1948 — Page 20

|U. S. Dream fo Outlaw War Fades at Nuernberg

Box Scores of Convictions and Acquittals - Indicate ‘Loose Cog’ in Tribuna! Machinery

By DAVID M. NICHOL, Times Foreign Correspondent NUERNBERG, Germany, Mar. 11—An American dream of a world in which international law would make war filegal and fix penalties for those who broke the rules is dissolving slowly into nothing here at Nuernberg. The picture is not entirely new. Something similar ea after World War I when German opposition and the inability of the} allies to agree turned the trial of alleged war criminals into a sar- much as any others, who sabodonic joke. taged the effort, by Fefusing 10 Then it was the Americans, as/admit that an... . inter national tribunal could | vi apply rules of © evidence a n d _ procedure would safeguard 3 the very rights = for which we 4 ti said the war was being fought. By the end of World War II {the Americans ihad gone much

Mr. Nichol farther in their thinking. They

agreed that an international court could apply such justice. The start was auspicious. Under its distinguished British chairman, Lord Geoffrey Lawrence, the international military tribunal set the course. Its opinfon is one of the most important legal documents that ever has been handed down.

, Some Wars Criminal

In it, the court decided that some wars, at least, are criminal.| It defined these as aggressive. No one who witnessed any portion of the proceedings could feel that this was victor judging vanquished in a spirit of vengeance or hatred. Admittedly the court was trveling uncharted legal seas, applying what it thought to be the best principles of men’s thinking in the past to new situations and new problems. Mere boxscores of convictions and acquittals themselves are no adeguate measure. They do illustrate trends however. Box Scores Show Trends With the exception of the trial of Field Marshal Erhard Miich, a single defendant in a specialized case, the five others which have been completed show a steady and constant drift from severe to more moderate sentences. “Only 17 percent of the doctors|who were sentenced last August drew prison terms of less. than life, the mildest judgment of the court, ; : By the time a judgment was reached in the case of the socalled “southeast generals,” in February, this leniency was extended to 60 per cent. Death penalties were imposed {only in the first two of the five multiple cases to be completed. Even these have not been carried out.

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