| Show W distance Di stane dims reality 7 17 of europe s need of aid i i well being of U S in contrast to bleak t ruins of old world trials of nazis point up evils of militarism by news analyst and commentator service leis 1616 eye street N W washington U D 0 back in this beautiful country where houses have roofs furnaces have coal and larders have food in them and cigarettes are thrown away half smoked I 1 find it hard to realize that what I 1 saw in wr cracked wracked ached and aching E europe drope Is other than an ugly nightmare for that reason I 1 arri ail less stunned by attitude which borders on indifference os as to what happens across the atlantic less stunned yes not less alarmed you ti walk among the cuini it never occurs to you that americans who are the most generous the most sentimental and kindly people in the world who will empty their pockets for or famine stricken I 1 flood drenched fire are swept folk from Mur mansk to cape horn are not willing and anxious to help rebuild what others have torn down lost last winter people died of exposure inside th their own homes in the chec city ity of paris this winter minter will bewerse be worse for or vast sections of many european countries trees have been cut down and burned for fuel clothing has been worn out bedding has been re fashioned into crude garments the napping flopping sheets of canvas which patched bomb holes in tho the root roo f have been shredded by the wind and sleet but all that thai Is far away for far i away from me and I 1 find that when I 1 lean back and took look up from my keyboard at the tip of the washington monument hazy BS as it if is in the distance it appears a real living and adjacent thing compa compared red to the scenes of which I 1 was ws a part such a short chort time ago the things I 1 saw with my eyes the voices I 1 heard the emotions emotional I 1 felt seem so unreal now that they form only a barange shadow show in t the be recesses of my mind how then can you and 1 I going about our business reading a few lines in newspapers and periodicals listen listening tug to a husky voice on the he radio seeing tho the quick flash of events in the newsreels news reels of these als distant ant folk realize that wp wo are still as we were in the days of coin cain and abel our brothers lbrothers keeper asek to curb Aggra lve war since I 1 returned tho the question asked most often of me concerning the trials is the very sa game meone one tho germans asked me i before the trials begandt why dont doht they shoot those thos e rats and got get it overl over with to the germans the prisoners are tho the men who led them to bondage and defeat and AM id so I 1 have torO to repeat peat wearily with the realization that most people hava hav missed tha whole point of I 1 the tj trials alit hattle M prisoners ln the coq dock despite tho the fact that their names were ariti once blazoned across the borto worl as tho the arch 1 in infamous am ous of history are unimportant that it if la is far more important tal convict in open court through due process of law with all the volu minous evidence the bia ideas tor for which a goering Goerl ng or a feltel or a 0 von or a schacht ht stood than chanto to convict the men themselves thit that the purpose of the trials which aa are dragging thel slow length across the edges of current fisl history w co convict th the prisoners as 03 conspirators in the planning and the carrying out of aggressive gres sive warfare to establish in the law we reco recognize that such warfare is ili cegal egal many lawyers quibble over the technicalities of the process but I 1 think when this case is studied in the perspective of history it will be clear that the creation of the precedent which it seeks to establish is aletho oil tho time and money and effort which has been expended upon it the lawmakers law makes precedents as well as follows them this precedent it if established will servo serve as the foundation stone in a structure of collective security a structure we cannot build as long as we are blind to the evil of a nations deeds which we accept as a crime alien A they are done by the individual I 1 reported in my first article from that there was doubt that certain of 0 the could be that the military lead erp might escape on the slender blender excuse that they merely obeyed or C ders the minor sub humans ilki Str elcher because they were too small to be caught iq ti the meshes of on an all enveloping law since then the prosecution has shown how all these men were deeply involved in the vicious plot and counterplot ol of whose prime purpose was aggressive predatory war itself lt selli why we shoot the conspirators in the first place and be done with it ita be because cause we wished to show to the world that democratic nations can put behind them the law of the jungle an eye foran for an tye and a t tooth 00 h for a tooth because we wish to demonstrate that we the con quer ors devot do not intend to invoke the law af pf the conqueror victor vo lentes per dat dura that we believe in the dignity of man and are willing to give that spark of manhood a chance to be ba judged by his peers that we do n not at believe that two wrongs make a right or that that right Is implemented by might alone must reform german gc aman mind the battle of the democracies ts Is not a fight of body against body it li la a fight of mind against mind tho tha democratic i concept which Is based on the teachings of the christian jell religion gion must triumph unless the world bo be divided forever into a race of fighters and a race of slaves the long took task ahead of us in germany Is the forming reforming re ozithe german Gorman mind that will take them the patience of the teacher not the skill of the fighter if we are unwilling to spend the money and the time and make the sacrifices sary to re mould the german mentality that mentality will be used by others other who know only too well how to channel it back into the ways of the warrior it Is no trick to Nazli sm that itself Is to those who have borne its yoke the germans are sick of it tar it brought them only defeat but was only a affrication of tho german people their chronic aliment ailment ts Is militarism it will take a long and patient schooling to remove that poison from their blood and to transmute its power its sacrifice its stubborn energy into the constructive tive forces without which eu rope cannot survive nor live st at peace w with ith its neighbors As I 1 look back on the efforts effort si which were made by the united states military government to exploit exi the trials as a means of dove developing ve on an understanding of democracy in germany iel that they have missed a remarkable unremarkable opportunity port unity As tar for as ah ihnow 11 know at this arl writing ing the speech af pf f justice ja jackson ck which explained the purpose of the trials end and convicted Nazi doin out of its own mouth Is yet to io reach the germans in full text it is s exceedingly cee difficult tor for the information control division former to take any positive steps over and beyond the established institutions which they created before the lid was clamped down the few established american published magazines the one newspaper the diews news service and the radio however the speech will eventually be translated and appear as a brochure which will be sold at a low p price rice and will be greedily absorbed like every other piece of bf reading matter in the book hungry reich helch nor was the trial properly cov rod cred by the german newspaper men after bjong a iong argument an nr ar rang ans finally permitted whereby ti certain number of seats eight at arst assigned to german newspaper men they were never all filled while I 1 was there the explanation was that tran tation was difficult tor for germans newsmen were furnished with permits to travel but they furnished with jeeps or or space in a bouncing truck or seats on the overcrowded trains rains they were wera left to lo fight it out for themselves and believe me there is no room for a kraut on a vehicle if anyone else wants the space and if he does get a seat what will he eat cat there ts Is no food available for the itinerant ex enemy the authorities should have seen to it that every german newsman tor for whom space at the trials available waa was occupying that space and he have needed a second invitation |
