Show X C The Punishment of War Criminals In our consideration of what should be done with the war both high and two questions must be how would punishment of the leaders affect the people of the individual country which they second what effect would that specific punishment have upon us in America as a Let us try to imagine what seedbed of revengeful determination would have been sown in America if we had been invaded and and if President Roosevelt and some of the who proved themselves stalwarts in our as well as other civil leaders had been If we do the above to Germany and the feeling of nationalism and race superiority now motivating these countries will become intensified to a white-hot With what would mothers of generations yet unborn put their children to bed stories of executions performed by the barbarian Americans of the twentieth Is history able to present Caesar or Napoleon so far from the semblance of civilization even at the height of their mad It but in its blackest pages Banish Hitler to a beer garden or to his Munich Keep an eye on the Junkers and the other war Build a special temple for Hirohito and his royal relatives on Catalina island or some convenient place where they might find a pleasant Let them fade out as Napoleon or Wilhelm Let us not believe execution will level the ground upon which the structure of our world at peace may be With the decrees the Prince of Peace has that ye be me and recompense let us embrace the task of reconstruction with a warm and a ready handshake as our chief Harold Pratt |