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Show Y HUNGARY Complete Trial Needed !To Legally Outlaw War ow .osovV IB j lCy ITALY By BAUKIIAGE 1 1 repeat in me v" infinitum .1 market places in gnd bazaars, the coffee houses and the couloirs (not to mention the lecture halls). There is one war which will have my One is: Why on are earth they out dragging trials; these aren't they ever going to end? is: other The Do you think any fellows of these to off? get (the prisoners) are going The intelligence of the questioners and the number of times I hear the questions assures me that the main purposes of the trial are still widely misunderstood. Justice Jackson Associate knows as well as anyone else that news from Nuernberg has long since de- parted inconspicuously from the front page. He knows, from reading the American newspapers which reach him not too belatedly, thanks to the ALS (the army's special courier service), that his role in the Nuernberg case will never bring him a succes de scandale. He knows presence is needed in his Washingt- on on the Supreme court bench. In any case, he knows that he is adding to his fellow justices' burdens, if not their annoyance by remaining away from the job. Certainly he realizes that time is not increasing the prestige which he undoubtedly achieved when he engineered the trials and made his opening address. He has to gain personally by relonger in that dreary, pulBavarian city. then, does he tarry? ringing nothing maining verized Why, Documentation Required Full Is answering that question, one answer the other two I mentioned at the beginning of these By can lines. One: Is this Why thing being dragged out forever. . . . ? Answer: Because 'this trial is not merely a trial of a handful of inter- criminals. These evil vilonly a small part of the drama, even if it is they, and not what is behind their castigation, which sometimes still produces headlines. The trial is a great process of legal documentation. It is the recording of history, for the first time in history, of history written in blood, and ink hardly yet dry. It must be a complete record; the record of a crime which, until it is so recorded, may never be admitted as a crime in the eyes of international statesmen and national lains are lawyers. The Allied military eration justice, as it the army) was tribunal (op- was known in planned, and Is being conducted to its long and apparently infinite end for the purpose of blueprinting a legal precedent for holding as punishable criminals, the beads of states who plot and carry out aggressive warfare. That is the answer to question one. Question two: Are they ever go- ing to convict these fellows? I answered that in part when I said that the proceedings were far more than the trials of the defendants who sit daily in the prisoners' dock of the court house at Nuern-rg- , or in their lonely cells near by. And for those who fear that Justice will be cheated, let me say that most of those if it cannot be men, that they took official Part in the planning and execution of an aggressive war, are probably 'nted .,n other charges In local wurts. If they go free from Nuern-c"the local courts will them, "ers tfe "Beast of Eelsen" try and othwrro tried and convicted for tWr separate and private crimes. it Is possible, for instance, that sadir'ic, degenerate Strelcher, established ui.lder f "v V:n of a Jewelled as a symbol of his nsv. chn well as an instrument of his perverse desire uilt nnt K his aK pc , ;f" fc,lnw h.rn. prisoners won't crook(,d thflt evpn was a Gauleiter, he be truMod t0 gign a ginKe SQ he J-Jn- n;it"nal or international IIo jtole Pth from the Nazinna)y party itself that "e as n:nr lr, incarcerated. B rich? What of business say b00m' r.'rs 8, everything'! always a nice trip up. tt effect will the CIO-AF- L .e attract usual? ; ! , ' Out of the doors of the cathedral which crowns Washington's highest hill, through the court In a gentle rain that set the yews to weeping and the young leaves of the privet shining in aqueous green, the solemn procession moved. The President and his entourage, the members of the Supreme court, the cabinet, the congress, and the others slipped away as the family of Chief Justice Harlan Stone bore him gently to his last resting place in beautiful Rock Creek cemetery. Another great American had chosen the nation's capital where he served for two decades, as his long, ' 1 zL. XX f!tv.tuvV A EGYPT support though I S irH.sfi SAUDI r ARABIA SUDAN , ' , ( 0 HADiHAMAUt ' fin urn i t V ' iiiiiiiiliiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiMi.uwiiA iiitiiii muminw ' I r 7 i mmHmimmfmtXSim!mmmLmmm COMPLICATIONS FOR BIG FOUR . . . While the Big Four conference in Paris faces many difficult problems involving treaties and claims and boundaries, the Turkish situation presents future complications. In the dark areas shown are the three buffer states of the Near East and Middle East. Here the strategic and economic interests of Russia and the western powers meet. Control of the Dardanelles is a vital issue and Russia has sought to press claims on Turkey's eastern frontiers. Arrows on the map show how use of the straits cuts 3,000 miles from the supply line to Russia. At tbe opening sessions the Big Four sidestepped the troublesome Trieste and Italian colonial questions and began the consideration of the Italian-Frenc- h frontier, the size of Italy's future armed strength and disposal of her surplus shipping. France's proposal to add internationalization of the Ruhr and detachment of the Rhineland from Germany to the agenda, added further complications. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin caused another upset by insisting that Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg representatives be permitted to sit in on such negotiations as spokesmen for nations which suffered heavily through German aggression. s - R 3w v. v v ' MS v. l i t . if vV'.W-- tfc, home. And I could not help thinking of something I have said before in these columns Pennsylvania avenue, from the capitol grounds to the Potomac, and past the White House, is only an extension of a thousand Main streets, which run through the "plaza," "court John Barrymore earned and lost several fortunes during his turbulent career. When a colleague f chided him for his financial Irresponsibility, Barrymore recited an epitaph he had seen In Westminster Abbey: "What I gave, I have. What I spent, I had. What I left, I lost by not giving it." " 77 : - x - - I r house of a great nation which is not that nation's metropolis. There Is also something else town which, for about this thousands of us who follow our humble ways here, make it home. My own prairies are as dear to me as ever, and I never cease to thrill when I move across the border and over the fat black soil of Illinois; 1 have warm memories of the mists that blow in from the Pacific too; the hills and the lakelands of western New York; New mountains England's and rocky coast where I have been more than a transient pucst. But I can well understand how those who have moved along the quiet avenues of this city, whose vistas run far back into the beginnings of American history, choose this city beside the broad Potomac as their final home. big-littl- e green-creste- i rv v . . . Committee of the U. N. security council which will Investigate the charges that Generalissimo Franco's government in Spain Is a menace to world peace and security. Left to right: Oscar Lange, Poland; Henri Bonnet, France; Pedro Velloso, Brazil; Paul Hasluck, Australia, and Hsushl Shu, China. TO INVESTIGATE FRANCO'S GOVERNMENT I fx WlW.WWJWjWWWMI pad." "Yes," grumbled Broun. "I broke my pencil." : f JAfJi f'F.rV I At i j I flying brick-- a Sounds In the Dark: At the Singapore: "He reaches for the check like it was an atomic bomb!" . . . At the Stuyvesant Casino: "They say he's an awful bore but I think he's rather expert at it." . . . At Ciro's: "When he dies the only guy who'll be sorry will be his insurance agent." At the Park Central Lounge: "A layman is a pedestrian who jumped too late!" . . . At the Garden Restaurant: "He was Just promoted from Account Executive to Office Boy." At the China Doll: "Her love Is so fickle it oughta be listed on the Stock Exchange." At the Bronx Zoo: "But son, I've told you a hundred times. Senator Bilbo Is in Washington!" ... ... fjLT' . ' , iL NiiMait Ltlm ... 1 " ifii'M 4& VOUNGSTERS STUDY AT FBI ACADEMY . . . Kenny Rose, Dick Little and Hugh McMahon, cub scouts of Falls Church, Va., look over a small section of the huge "model city" which is part of the equipment used by the FBI national academy in teaching traffic problems to learn modern police science. Thousands of youngsters visit the FBI monthly. TEA TIME FOR TRILBY . . . Trilby, leader of the elephant herd of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus, shows his latest tea cup. A veteran of the show, be still rules the herd. Sir Arthur Conao Doyle once related a bantering conversation he had with a actor who was cast in one of his plays. The young chap had laughingly suggested that the two agree to divide their incomes with each other for the rest of their lives. . . . Naturally, Sir Arthur had refused "such a ridiculous offer." The youngster was Charlie Chaplin. narry WagstafT Gribhle, the producer, director, author and all around play expert, has coined a swelegant new word to replace the Inaccurate "Colored" and equally untrue "Negro." . . . The casts of both "Anna Lucasta" troupes are thrilled about it. It's a pip, to wit: Negramerican. This one has been pinned on various hefty humans. But Alec Wooll-coenjoyed pinning It on himself. . . . When Alec was tipping the scales (in the 300s) two actors noticed him wading In the Atlantic City surf. Said one: "Let's go swim- tt can be doesn't of prosperity the balloon blow apart before a gentler landing can be arranged. it LTTTfZ ..t 0 HJL MOST VALUABLE . . . Baseball's most valuable players, Thil Chicago Cubs, left, was chosen as the National league'i most valuable player In 1945, and Hal Kewhouser, Detroit, won the award lor the most valuable player in American league. Both men show promise of being leading contenders for the high honor this season. Cav-arrett- a, almost human canine on a Is better than an almot porleash cine human on the loose. Their are plenty of both around. An ... When Heywood Broun first started reviewing Broadway shows he had the habit of making notes during dull shows to appear that he wasn't bored. . . . The worse the show the more he scribbled. . . . One night he stopped making memos during a second act . . . After the second Interval the beaming producer said: "I feel better since I noticed you put away your lnftTttJuaiimwii1 d Maybe the inflation checked enough so that Some of us wondered why Jed a million dollars as a Broadway showman, Indidn't connect in Hollywood. siders insist this is why. . . . Friends brought him to Louis B. Mayer, the movie magnate, who had been informed of Jed's genius on B'way. "How much money do you want a week?" asked Mayer. "How much do YOU get?" demanded Harris. That did it! Harris, who once made square." or the "commons," on past the First National bank and the opera house, the department store, and the ice cream parlor, to the free fields and woods beyond. So much a part of America is America's capital city, and so much a part of Washington are all the towns and cities clustered about their rivers, their main streets, their city halls, and post offices, that when one long serves the nation here, it becomes his second home; often first in choice for his declining years and his last resting place. I am sure that former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft loved his native Ohio no less than the federal city; here the bridge upon which he could be seen taking his daily walk now bears his name; he lies in Arlington with our other soldier dead. I know that retired Justice Hughes lacks no love or loyalty for the Empire state. Oliver Wendell Holmes, deeply rooted In New England as he was, lived here, and when he died, bequeathed his home to the nation. These are but three of many who chose to live here when their duties no longer made it necessary. There is something about Washington, a city virtually without industries, or the other institutions which make a metropolis, that bears the mark of small-towAmerica. Washington is the only Come Sunday, the city fathers of the good old days shut the Avenue off so that Sabbath worshippers could have absolute quiet. Now it's almost necessary to rope off the glittering store windows so that the strollers can't have free rein! . . . The Avenue is an international hodgepodge of everything: Toy factories, two art museums (the Metropolitan and the Frick), famous churches and synacathedrals, gogues, the Empire State (the world's highest, widest and handarchitects and stock somest), brokers, haberdashers, interior decorators, women's apparel specialists, Radio City (which gives natives their largest Christmas tree and an outdoor Ice skating rink), a party favor house, swank restaurants, banks, and mansions filled with ghosts. The first Fifth Avenue Hotel six stories high (or can you stand was opened In 1859. It it?) featured a novelty, New York's first vertical railway. What's that? Why, a passenger elevator you dope. . . . Elevators along Fifth these days are such elegant affairs that operators are likely to look down their shafts at ordinary pilots of the Air Forces. last bat-th- e clrganize toe outh have on 'n ?SrI,W? grWt0the bau LIBYA , ARBS. . .by Baukhage ,Prophet8 l d IRAQ' AVA Washington Has Small Town Air capital 'gtiftt1i'ftt Fifth Avenue, the teeming boulewhich runs the gauntlet from 1 south to 2340 north in the heart of the world's most important Treasure Island, is the Avenue FOR the Americas. In 1918, during the first World War, it was for a time called the Avenue of the Allies, which fooled nobody. With a past as glamorous as Camille's, a present as active as the dollar's, its future is as bright as radar's! PAU'iTiNf SEA hope it can be fought with brains and without bloodshed. Such a conflict was referred to recently as a possibility by a writer in the New Republic. Perhaps it will be, he says, "as inevitable as was the Civil war within the United States." It would be in the nature of a civil war within the United Nations to establish the sovereignty of the United Nations and preserve its unity, just as it was necessary to establish the sovereignty of the federal government of the United States and preserve the union. No other war is worth fighting because any other would merely be the continuation of all the sanguinary struggles, unwanted by the people, for the power and the glory of single nations. the ' vard The Nuernberg trials will continue until the record is completed Justice will not be cheated. And it Is to be hoped that war aggressive on the basis of the proceedings of this court, will become illegal. How can the United Nations hope to out-lawar unless they establish with sword, scales and woolsack that war is illegal? whole-hearte- ' Manhattan Ueartbeat News Analyst and Commentator. 1616 Eye Street, N.W., vNC service, Washington, D. C. to As the Nuernberg trials draw to hear two ques I close. I continue ou tions Iff'' GREEN FOR OPA . . . William Green, president of the AFL, told the senate banking committee that those who opposed extension of the OPA were a "death lobby." He demanded It be continued Intact. ming." "How can we?" quipped the other. "Woollcott's using the ocean!" B'way (T. Wcatherly) Confucius: No New Thing Under the Sun? But Some Of The Old Ones Art Plenty of Fvo There's |