Letters

...The end does not justify the means...

...And that not sll wars have been won by nstions guiltless of imperialist aggression...

...they sre condemned in advance by the conscience of mankind, and there can be no doubt that they deserve the mos< extreme punishment...

...I don't know of a better way to spend a few dollars...

...Convenience* wilt he offered in eaie travel I* neeeatary...

...He said thst his statement was made as "the mouthpiece of the accused whom I represent, snd I expressed no persons...

...After contract i* ligned not only food hut...

...To Um fatter: We aa Polish rltiaen* residing ht New Zealand take the Mhorlp of aeod-hag yea herewith ear modest eeatribe tloa "to help cover year deflcii...

...Pat will not be able to be Secretory of s Jewish Labor Committee—not even in A met ics...

...Voluntory enlistment for occupation forces in Japan ought to be encouraged by the Tokyo announcement of the return ef Geisha girls from factories to their former glory...

...For by these means will be established the first precedents in the international trial of war criminals...

...When Chamberlin cites the fact that the Nazis hsve no monopoly on atrocity, thst the Russian Bolsheviks have also committed wholesale atrocities and that even Americans and Britons are not wholly innocent of atrocious conduct, he is not denying that the Nazis sre the worst beasts and mass-murderers the world haa ever known...

...views of my own...

...I hold that the method used by our army in prosecuting that Orients...

...It was unfortunate that Chamberlin cited Major Winwood as a model defense attorney...

...such trials will do more harm than good...

...To this reader the very thought of concentration camps, no matter in what land, is abhorrent...

...High income...

...However shocking Winwood's statement was, that is whst is to be expected if the trials of Nssi wsr criminals pretend to follow the legalistic pattern of American and British courts...

...Nevertheless, for the purpose of knowing what we are about, it must be rlesr for what specific crimes those Nazi criminals are being tried...

...ligned) All-Ja/ran Geitha Fed*ration.'' • Tlte ia msasing an army near Greece, to conquer Macedonia for the Slav bloc planned by Stalin, reports Lt...

...Beginning with the Nasi occupation of Rumania until the end of the wer, many members of my family have been murdered by them...

...If it is because they hsve crested concentration •amps, then Msjor Winwood's mention •f such camps during the Boer War was In place...

...It should be noted that William Henry Chamberlin, in the November 3 issue, stated that he had not read Major Winwoods anti-Semitic statement, snd he damned it as outrageous.] Chamberlin: Riqht And Wrong From ARTHUR S. SAMUEL Te the Mi tor: While it is not difficult to agree readily with most of William Henry Chamberlin's column, "War Crimes snd Punishment," in the October 27 is»ue of The New Leader, one finds it quite confusing to follow number four of his "Elementary Rules of Equity...

...Pat, 1 am sure...

...It is reelly amusing to find how irrational some of our most advanced and usually rational thinkers can become when they want to stretch a point of fairness too far...

...It has fought appeasement of Hitler and the Feseists, snd now it is showing its consistency by fighting appessement of Stslin snd the Communists, which Is more than can be said of the liberal dailies and periodicals...

...MM JOSIPHSON re the fiptter...

...Voyislav Hitch, ef the Yugoslrv Air Force...

...New Zealand...

...Without it I would hsve been In s more or less intellectual void when I wss fighting for my country oversees...

...From M. I. IOSON I consider The New Leader the soundest, ssnest snd most entlgpenlng publication thst I see, snd I do not wsnt to miss a copy of It In these critical timet...

...Free...

...The best of luck...

...The article by Jacob Pat was shocking to mo because, if our friends continue to think and speak thst wsy, the few remaining walls of civilization will come tumbling down on us %nd Mr...

...Is at areeent Ike heat and perhaps the only safeguard against the ever-growing reactionary and totalitarian trends...

...The following ad sppesred in a Tokyo newspaper: "Wanted immediately—3,000 geitha yirlt for entertaining occupation troops...

...At the same time we wink to ex-areas to the editors sad caatrlhntofs of fast New Leader oar sincere grali totse and admiral ten We arc grata fa...

...There la, unfortunately...

...As sn American, a Social Democrat and a Jew, It wae shocking and revolting to me to reed the ertlele by Jacob Pet ia last week's issue ef The New Leader...

...I hsve been getting informstion in The New Leader which I do not get in the dsily news-pspers...

...murderer in Manila, snd the method used by the Norwegian* in prosecuting Quisling, and the machinery that is being prepared to bring to triel that gang of conspirators and murderers in Germany should and will enhance and strengthen the respect for order under law and the freedom of the individual, without which civilization cannot survive...

...Frees WHLff WILLIAMS Enclosed you will find a money order for my subscription to The New Leader...

...If, on the other hand— and this seems an accepted procedure— concentration camps are merely another farm of incarcerating enemy prisoners and nndeairable natives, the fact that Britain thought it wise to institute concentration ramps is not at all germane and is entirely irrelevant at these trials...

...I would like to see more ex-Marxists come into the liberal camp because it is a pity to see the Social Democrats and Socialists wsste their energy trying to get the people of the country to accept Socialism, while they know in their hearts that the American people do not desire s departure from the present social order to solve the social, political and economic problems that confront them...

...Trials in totalitarisn lands are political demonstration trials...

...certainly it would have beep better to courtmartial and shoot them, without the pretense of a fair aad impartial civil trial under the legality of non-existent or retroactive international law...

...aVooelya, M. T. From MSr OFMRMAN couldn't possibly do without The New Leader since It expresses everything In which I so vigorously believe and fight for...

...Their atrocities so far exceed those ever committed by Americans or Britons thst his compel i-aon was unfortunate—but that is no reason to misinterpret bis clear mean-lag—that Nazi atrocities do not justify even lesser atrocities on the pert of the victors in this atrocious war, just as Nasi anti-Semitism dors not justify Hit lerism-in-reverse — the blind vengeful hatred of all Germans as an inferior and inherently brutal race...

...because Max Esstman slso wrote a series of srticles favoring a liberal capitalist democracy...

...Wellington...

...Letters The Nuremberg Trials - Controversy Enlists Several Views From GORDON ALEXANDER To the Editor WILLIAM Henry Chamberlin was as horrified by Nazi atrocities aa any of 'aj, Ha doei not plead for forgiveness ml the Nasi aeurderers...

...There is no possibility (or danger) thst the main defendants will be found not guilty...

...I have engsged In discussions sometimes just on informstion thst I get in The New Leader, snd I do get satisfaction in Ister being proven right Another good quality of The New Leader is Its consistent snd stubborn stand sgsinst sll dirtstorships, whether of tbe right or left...

...But if they are to be thus tried, Chamberlin is right in arguing that the trials should not be a farce, a mockery of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, the establishment of extremely dangerous precedents...

...Bat he does plead for meticulous fairness, the maintainancs !ef the,best traditions of law and justice ifci democratic countries—the precious principles for which mankind has struggled for centuries, snd which today sre .threatened...

...that Information la invaluable suae riolly daring the present news black eat with regard to Poland...

...The worst examples in history were the purge trials in Moscow, whose purpose was to justify . Stalin's murder of all his opponents and critics, all of the old Bolsheviks who knew too much...

...In that column, Chamberlin lauds Msjor Thomas Winwood, appointed to defend the commandant of the Belsen camps...

...One can't help asking: Are the Nazi criminals being tried for having set up concentration camps, or are they being tried for the fiendish brutality with which-they hsd tortured the inmstes of those ramps...

...Good work and more power to yoq ef The New Leader...

...He flew a Yugoslav transport plane to London, but refuses to return because his country Is stnTering s reign of terror...

...At best, the Nuremberg trisls will be a legalized meting out of retribution...

...to Paw Now Uemar tat Its per-slstout Interest in Polish affairs aad far the wealth ef information ea this sablttt which appears at Ma commas...

...To impute to Chamberlin sympathy for Winwood's vile argument is unfair of Jacob Pat...

...1 HAPPEN to have been born in a country that baa always been a model for political corruption and, therefore, fell a v let im to the German "drsng" with comparative esse...

...So I had intended to pay the subscription for the additional three months in which I received The New Leader and not resuhscribe again, although 1 ilid like the paper...

...He despises anti-Semitism as much does Mr...

...Likes Us Anyway From G A ETA NO M AK/.o To the Editor: I UNDERSTAND that The New Leader is the weekly organ of the Social Democratic Federation...

...Those who read "Where the News Ends" week after week know that Chamberlin is no John O'Donnell...

...and most arrogant statement the commandant niade, asserting that the Jews and other inmates of those concentrstion campa were of the lowest strata of tociety—or words thst csrried thst implication...

...it may have supplied the Major with an excellent opportunity to berate his country, though somewhat belatedly, for having resorted, more thsn 45 years ago, to such barbaric methods, but it definitely failed to make a hero of the Major, nor did it enhance the chances of his client to be let off with lighter punishment...

...it seems to wie thai instead of raking up, at a most inappropriate time, sins committed by Britain a hslf century ago...

...Perhaps the kind of mob justice meted eat te Mussolini should have, been given all the Nasi leaders...

...Being a liberal, I would not favor the Socialist program of the S.D.F...

...llrle with experience wil' be gieen in/ierior treatment...

...But 1 do appreciate The New Leader and I find it very interesting and Informative, and it gives me a very good understanding of the nations) snd inter-nstionsl political situstion...

...The Nuremberg trials should not resemble ' mass demonstration trials...

...But if the Nasi defendants am to be given their choice of defense attorneys, they will nsturally select reactionaries and preferably anti-Semites if available, who will present the "best* argument for the defense that they csn, including an appeal to prejudice...

...Major Winwood's flaunting this criticism in the face1 of Great Britain at a trial of Nazi monsters may be a very bold manifestation of courage...

...Bat egos I to oar gratitede la ear admiration for the superb courage and indomitable •ghtiag spirit ef The Nam Loader group, manifested In tks> aneompre mlalng espeaare of totalitarisn regimes aad sHetatorshlps, he they brow a, red or black...

...Major Winwood, who referred to the Nasi monsters he was assigned to defend aa men who had merely murdered "the dregs of the ghetto," for the benefit "of humanity," apologised ss the defense argument came to a close...

...Theme without «a> perienee will alma d...

...The means by which these Nazi criminals sre condemned is almost as important as that they be punished...

...I am mentioning these facts bcause it seems thst, due to narrowed and unreasoned thinking thst prevails todsy, one must establish a special frsnchise in order to express e view on current problems...

...aleo livelihood it guaranteed...

...the Major might have made a much pjofounder impression if he had dwelt more on the audio...

...be wants them 'Vanished for their crimes as much ss aRy Jeer whose mother or son was .kerned to death at Belsen, or any Germsn Social Democrat who was tortured at Bu.hcn wald...

...But thinking it over, I csme to the conclusion thst it would be foolish of me to overlook the good quslities of the psper just because I disagreed with articles which favored socialization...

...Opt much hope of sack a steed being stoat so* by more then a selected thinking minority, ead yet we sincerely eel leva that the etJatenee ef aea eowfeemtata, SS gathered around The Now Loader, snd a few ether papers...

...But let us not forget thst this is a trial of the vanquished by the victors, snd that among the judges will be representatives of s nstion slso guilty of aggression and atrocities rivaling those of the Nazis...

...But the trials of Petain snd Laval were also nauseating—-not because they were found guilty, a foregone conclusion, but because the trials were a disgusting display and a mockery of justice, so conducted ss to tend to inea'v down respect for law and the courts...