Show phinell I 1 ph imp r vms efm THE TRIAL OF HERMANN GOERING Q you are charged with being instigator and full supporter ot of nearly every foul crime committed against civilization in the european war A in surprise who met ket Q you are further charged with being the man to adolt adolf hitler with concurring in all his decisions and with directing the ruthless use of airplanes against defenseless fen seless peoples and communities A it must be some mistake gentlemen I 1 am a good natured man a good fellow and at heart merely a costume jewelry collector Q name one instance in which you opposed nazi ruth ruthlessness lessne A well I 1 was once so outraged by the blitzing klitzing blit zing of civilians that I 1 had bad to quit my banquet table after the twelfth course and I 1 remember an occasion when my sensibilities were so disturbed by a deportation por tation of frenchmen as slaves blives that in dressing I 1 forgot nine of my twenty two medals Q do yo you u deny guilt tor for coventry plymouth rotterdam warsaw and the horrors of london A I 1 was against such acts Q what did you do to stop them A I 1 spoke very sharply to hitler but you know what a low elivea brutal bru unspeakable vile fellow that monster was Q you hold hitler alone responsible A that filthy merciless skunk was to b blame ame for everything Q do you think hillers Hit lers dead A if I 1 do you think I 1 would talk about him like U tills Is Q you were associated a socia ted with der fuehrer from his earliest days you were in on every project you heard and approved every proposal to destroy europe did you not A I 1 may have been present but I 1 desire to announce that I 1 never heard well I 1 am quite deaf Q this is the first time anybody has ever heard that alibi from you how do you explain it A this Is the first time it seemed necessary to use it Q elgh in the councils of the nazis at all times you approved the book burnings the persecution of jews the pogroms slave labor operations erat ions lons and blitzes did you not A nein they broke my heart the thought of each act of 0 that nature outraged me Q name one instance of your opposition A I 1 protested a thousand times to hitler by telephone Q how many times was the wire busy A A thousand Q W what did you ever do in any W way ay to stop the atrocious treatment of war prisoners A 1 I remember distinctly once cancelling a wild boar hunt forgetting where I 1 had put three stolen masterpieces and putting the pants of uniform B on wrong side out Q do you sit there and deny you were as guilty as hitler and the rest of f his henchmen in every foul outrage against human decency A now how can you gentlemen look at me and even suspect such a thing the entire tribunal LOOKING AT YOU MAKES IT quisling complained that the cell 11 into which he was put was of a common sort and kicked because a bag containing chocolate and cognac was taken away from him that just gives you an idea P peter eter widener has named a race horse after happy chandler the new czar of baseball its what we call pretty embarrassing barr assing but mr chandler can always ret retaliate allate by naming namin 9 a shortstop after a horse german hopes appear to have been knocked higher than a feltel it struck us that it was somewhat of a boost for democracy that the surrender of germany was signed for our side by an american named smith walter smith and the name sounds pretty good up against all the german this and it hitler were not dead the sight of 0 the stars and stripes flying over berchtesgaden would kill him after the war in europe and japan there is still a job to do tills this country still has the job of making peace with john L lewis THE GOOD OLD 01 DA DAYS YS clarence smedley thompson tho died the other day at his irving place home in new york was our first bo bivs ile e gave us our fint job as a cub reporter e back home and beyond that gave us the benefit oj of his patient training I 1 rig sage advice and warm friendship wt we still treasure a jaded note which gave gate us a never to be forgotten thrill it an said that without solicitation on your part I 1 ant am glad to increase your pay from om fa 3 a week to ts 5 eff elective this week 11 three a week was the starting wage in those days das and it seemed a lot of money five dollars was wal something that made rn mann ad one no feet feel in the upper brackets |