| Show Students Offer Opinions On Punishment of War Criminals By Helen Chamberlin Perhaps the most vital postwar problem before the public mind today is that of determining a workable prosecution and punishment of war criminals after the Upon this manifold and difficult decision obviously hinges much of the success or failure of the postwar Student and faculty spontaneous response to a taken last week on the was hesitant and before the magnanimity of the Meredith Wilson of the history department hesitated to give any concise opinion the problem is anything but he we should not consider what we have a right to do with war criminals as much as what we ought to first reaction of the masses will doubtless be he as all forms of would be medieval and will answer In doing all the patriotic strings in Germany would be We would condemn the political thinking of the entire Hitler and Mussolini would become martyrs to their nation's The he would be to discredit them in instead of making martyrs of them in would say Hitler should re turn to paper Some lesser war criminals could actually be condemned for violating international in a postwar but others will present much more difficult he Sally sophomore believes that we will be saved the problem of cither persecuting or destroying the most outstanding war least in the case of Germany and I believe leaders will either take their own lives or be killed by revenge-seeking However their death will solve for it is the nation as a whole we must worry to our democratic war criminals must be given as fair a trial as possible before they are convicted for any states Al jury should include some of the German and Italian citizens while this jury will have to decide on the punishment for their for which we have no provision in international Birch believes that above German and Italian people will have to be in no uncertain that their leaders are to so that enforced verdict will not be presents a much more difficult because their leader is their At any we should not be lenient with the believe we should wait several years when we are in a not an state of says Barbara a complete investigation into international affairs will show exactly where the fault We have no right to rashly pronounce judgement immediately after the is Nick United States and former U believes that leaders will go into voluntary If this is the he they should be allowed to but must be kept in check so that they will never again have a voice in public the allies alone should have a voice in the says LaRue at that time or at any other time should enemy leaders carry any If at any time they become a threat to the treaty drawn they should be for we certainly can take no chances in having them again become |
