WHERE THE NEWS ENDS
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends B> WILLI AM HiKUf CHAM BE KLINOversight or Foresight? INHERE hat thus far been a loud silence at the Nuremberg trial regarding two ftibjet t« which might have been expected...
...Pattern for a Positive Policy...
...A correspondent who was exercised over the honors heaped on the Red Dean of Canterbury during his recent visit to these shores put the following pungent and straightforward questions about the Dean: "Is he cleric or clown...
...at instigators of aggressive war...
...Both Soviet Communists and German Nazis have committed acts of equally ferocious terrorism...
...Rudolf Hess is one of these de...
...In this, as in many other cases, the Supreme Court is most honored in its dissenting opinions...
...But with PM all things are possible...
...ntiine liberals, faced with thia crude endorsement of power politics il the highest international law, might echo the bumorous title of the recent magazine article, about Miss Kirchwey: "Oh, .top that, Freda " Politico/ Illiteracy Oeportaeesrt ; "Barnes (Maynard Barnes, American -diplomatic representative in Sofia) is a close friend of many members of the old Bulgarian aristocracy...
...Co»tro-"v»os In Ur»» ' 'I will battle for a decent, sound foreign poli.-y, based orftbe Declarations of Teheran, Valla and Pots- ' dam...
...ronld HOI resolve...
...There hat apparently been no effort to investigate this question at Nuremberg The Soviet Government pro-feared Hick a sense of outrage (or was it guilt...
...Freda Kirchwey, in The Nation...
...According lo the !\rw York Port, it coiitainedjlrii remarkable ft-liiltit in morels and logic: ' r 'There is more real religion in Russia's program for her people then in t he so-called Christian nations...
...Absolute certainty about the Kalyn matsacre is iliftt ult to attain,, because there seem to be no tur-vivors...
...Russia and not any of the so-called Christian nations has transformed the fundamental Christian directives into reality, namely the abolition of mans exploitation of his brother...
...Is it be...
...Does he represent Christ or Communism, church or circus...
...These questions slso possess s certain interest in tire case of Mr...
...Johannes Steel, Communist preferred and happily defeated candidate lor Congress, at reported ' in J'M...
...Roth these conclusion* could hsve been discounted in advance...
...In all this * needless and unseemly haste there was no serious attempt to charge or to prove that he committed a recognized violation of the laws of war...
...Third, and most damning of all, the Soviet authorities never gave thia timple explanation, which Would have cleared them of all but tuhsidiary responsibility for the death of the o?c*rs, when Polish rep-ir-« illative* plied tliein with questions shout the fste of these miaaing prisoners...
...It was charged during tlii Soviet "treason ^and sabotage" trills that Trotsky met Hess in order to i onceri schemes for the dismemberment of the Soviet Union...
...foreign editor of PM...
...Second, it seems almost incredible that a few, at least, of the oficers would not have made a successful break for liberty if tin- camp bad been abandoned before the German offensive...
...Sted, whose fictional talents were so admirably portrayed l»v Not bert Mulilen in a recent fssue ->f The /Vein l.rmhr...
...And what about the grim massacre of thousands of Polish oiccrs in the Kalyn Forest, near Smolensk...
...Why htsn't the* Soviet prosecutor, General Budenko, taken this opportunity to throw a little more light on tbe subject...
...fendatita...
...It will be interesting to tee whether Nueremberg casta any fresh light on the dark horror of Kalyn...
...airs, the framing of "confer tions" is not so easy when a trial is held under international auspices...
...van Paassen...
...One might expect a foreign editor to be sisSciently familiar with European political and social conditions to know that there ie uo such class as a Bulgarian aristocracy...
...The Molt Unreverend Pierre van faatten I III clerical sector of the party-line united front ha* gained an accession, if one may judge from one of I'ierre van Paatsen's CHrly sermons...
...From Justice Frank Murphy's dissenting opinion on the appeal of General Yamashita...
...But tlus is r e»ntrsdictlon in terms which -even the flick Mr...
...All sorls ef olher allegations about lire complicity of German otcials in the alleged Trotskyist enterprises of murder, sabotage and espionage were made...
...A Orman-controlled investigation, held while the Ger-1 man* won in possession of Smolensk, and which included neutral aa well at Axil satellite participants, led to the conclusion thai the Russians committed the crimp, A Soviet investigation, heist without neutral participation, but in the presence of some foregn newspaperman, led to the conclusion that the Germans were the criminals...
...INHERE hat thus far been a loud silence at the Nuremberg trial regarding two ftibjet t« which might have been expected lo figure largely in the Soviet case against the defendant...
...But there are three piece* of circumstantial evidence, pointing to Soviet responsibility for tin* particular atrocity, which only very convincing lesti-okiii v to the contrary could refute...
...K. ^* One Kind of "LnVerdissi" "The fact is, every nation might as well accept Big Three dominance aa the basis of postwar relation...
...when the Polish Government asked for an impartial investigation of this slaughter that it broke off relations with the Polish Governmenl-iii-Exile...
...It Would be "tiei ly impossible to base * ''dornt sound foreign ?olicy," representing hamkm]t\^\^\ljfnky»t» on the alia and Potsdam Declarations, wohthnia, cynical and flagrant negation* ol die Atlantic Chattel and the Four Freedoma...
...First, letters from the prisoner* which had reached friends and relatives for a tints ceased abruptly more than a year before the German invasion of Russia...
...And this it said without a trace of humor or irony about a regime which hat restored human slavery in it* forced-labor concentration cantos, where millions ol human beings are systematically overworked and underfed, often to the point of speedy death...
...Alex-a in In 11 hi...
...Thoughts Worth Heseemberino 'Yamashita wan ranhed to trial under an improper charge, given insufficient time to prepare an adequate defense .. . and summarily sentenced to be hanged...
...To subject an enemy belligerent to an unfair trial, to charge him with an unrecognized crime, or to vent on him our retributive emotions only antagonizes the enemy nation and hinders the reconciliation necessary to a peaceful world...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 10
