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politics, the nobility and the military
caste.
The Allies demanded that these men
be delivered up for trial. Premier
Georges Clemenceau of France told the
Chamber of Deputies that the Allies
would insist on their trial and punish
ment. That was in 1915 after the YER
sailles treaty was signed.
The postwar German government first
asked the British, French and Italians
to forego the demand for trial. The
United States did not figure in the dis
cussions because the Senate had failed
to ratify the peace treaty.
Then, in January, 1920, the German
government declared it was impossible
to give up the culprits, refused to extra
dite them, but agreed to try them in
Germany. The attorney general at
Leipzig was ordered to investigate the
complaints and arrange for the trial.
The Allies accepted the proposal to
try the culprits at Leipzig, but reserved
the right to pass on the decision. Of
those who had not fled to Switzerland,
the Allied powers named IS for trial.
headed by Prince Ernst of Saxony and
a Gen. Won Bulow,
Few Were Ever Tried.
The trials began before the Leipzig
Supreme Court in May, 1921, and petered
out in two months Ten men actually
were tried; none of major Importance.
Five were convicted of charges in
volving i'll treatment of British war
prisoners, ordering the massacre of
French prisoners and sinking the Brit
ish hospital ship Llandovery Castle. The
other five were acquitted.
The two who received the maximum
terms OF four years escaped from jail,
apparently with the aid of their wardens,
within six months.
The Interallied Commission on War
Crimes in January, 1922, found the
Leipzig trials unsatisfactory and rec
commended the surrender of the Ger
mans still charged with offenses. Chan
cellor Wirth of Germany refused their
surrender, asserting the Leipzig court
was impartial and telling the Reichstag
that any government surrendering war
criminals would fall.
In August, 1922, the Council of Am
bassadors at Paris told Germany that
the Leipzig court was lax, that the Allies
would deal with the war criminals and
would sentence them by default.
But nothing more was done about it.
The United Nations are hoping to
avoid a repetition of that fiasco.
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rector Of Eyre & Spottiswoode, printer
to the King and publisher of Bibles,
prayerbooks and official publications. His
and he became a director of several
papers.
According to the record, he is chair
man Of the Financial News, Ltd, pub
Usher of the Financial News daily
newspaper in London's CITY" compare
BILE to the Journal of Commerce or the
Wall Street Journal in America. He is
also listed as managing director of the
Economist, which is perhaps the most
distinguished. publication of its kind in
the world, doing job of economic and
social analysis that is unrivaled.
The Economist has in general liberal
slant, at variance with Brackens out
spoken Tory views But as managing
director, on the business side, he appar-
emily has little to do with the policy of
the weekly. He is also a director of the
Banker, a conservative weekly dealing
with finance.
Warned Sleeping Britain.
During his rapid rise to prosperity
Bracken had time to acquire a knowledge
of 18th century furniture and houses
He is an acknowledged authority on
Georgian architecture. In any town in
England where he has never been before,
there are certain to be two or three
houses he must see. Owners are usually
delighted to show him around. A BACH
elor, he lives today in handsome Geor-
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By Marquis ". CMlds.

During the course of this war WASH
tngton has seen a surprising number of
British cabinet members but none more
remarkable always excepting Prime
Minister Churchill himself-than the
present visitor. Minister of Information
Brendan Bracken has come down from
the Quebec conference for quick look
around at a country which he knows
very well
Only in British politics would such
phenomenon as Brendan Bracken be pos
slble. The British are always happy to
adopt outsiders of brains and brilliance
who can serve their cause The tradi-
ton goes far back into the period of
England's growing greatness and may
indeed be one of the reasons for that
greatness.
Bracken is an IriShman who was edu-
Gated In Australia. Returning from Aus
tralia in 1919 at the age of l8, he was
penniless and unknown. In the quarter
of century that has interviewed he has
made himself a powerful figure in con-
temporary life, the owner of important
publishing properties.
One reason, perhaps the chief reason.
Is that early in his political career he
attached himself to Winston Churchill.
His loyalty has been answering. During
the years of appeasement, when Church.
Ill was openly ridiculed, Bracken was al
most his only follower Together they
constituted party of two-a rump par
ty within the Conservative party
Have Many Similarities.
The two men have many similarities
Bracken has something of the Prime
Minister'S gift of language. He can hold
forth, either in the House of Commons or
at dinner table, with uncommon bril-
lance. AS Minister of Information he
has given critics of his policy an I'M
happy time when they have stood up in
the House to reproach him. Before he
took over, the Ministry of Information
in London was almost as much of ma
tional shooting gallery as Elmer Davis
Once OF War Information. But Brendan
Bracken put an end to that by his forth
Brightness and his pugnacious ability to
defend himself.
In England Bracken is the subject of
many romantic legends, none of which
ne bothers TO deny. In Who's Who he
lists himself as the son of the late ]. K.
A. Bracken, born at Ardvullen House.
kilmallock. He was educated in Sydney,
Australia, where he went In 1915
On ms return to England he entered
career OF Journalism and his rise was
meteoric. BY 1925 he had become a d.
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elan mouse at y Lord North street in
London's Westminster section.
In 1929 Bracken was first elected In
Parliament as Conservative from North
Paddington. His constituency was made
up OF middle-class and lower-class Lon
doners and he won his victory in a hotly
contested election. He could then join
his great friend and patron, Winston
Churchill on the opposition back
benches.
The note he sounded when he spoke
was that of Churchill-a warning to
sleeping Britain. 1t is difficult to recall
the fantastic reality of that time When
Hitler marched into Austria, Churchill
IN speech to the House, with Bracken
at his side, appealed for a stronger tie
with the League of Nations. you will
laugh at this" Churchill said, and the
House laughed.
The two men were together a great
deal. Bracken accompanied Churchill to
America on at least one visit and he has
been here several times on his own. On
each occasion he has made many Amer
lean friends with the ready Irish charm
and the quick speech that are his.
When Churchill was made First Lord
OF the Admiralty in the cabinet of Nev-
lille Chamberlain during the months of
the phony war, Bracken was his parlia-
mentary private secretary. This meant
that he carried his political burdens for
him. When Chamberlain fell with the
collapse of all his makeshift policies, and
Churchill became Prime Minister, Brack-
en- continued to serve him in Parliament.
He was an invaluable aid in those try
ing and painful months when the Luft-
waite ranged over Britain bombing and
burning. His duties were not by any
means confined to politics or Parliament.
In very real sense he was Churchills
chief lieutenant.
A Cheerful Madhouse.
First under Chamberlain and later I'M
der Churchill, the Ministry of Informa-
ton was sound and fury signifying very
little. The first Minister of Information
Lord Macmillan, was repeatedly attacked
In the press both for what he did and did
not do. This phase was caricatured by
Evelyn Waugh in a puckish novel called
Put Out More Flags" in which the min
istry is described as cheerful madhouse
run by the inmates.
Macmillan was followed by the inept
Alfred Duff Cooper, who Jared but little
better. Duff Cooper was finally sent out
to preside over the liquidation of Singa-
new victim for the Ministry Of Informa-
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1t was hang the Kaiser" in the last
war, but the Kaiser eventually died of
old age in Doom, Holland
Now it's TRY Hitler for his war crimes"
and the Czechoslovaks, no doubt, would
like to pass sentence on him amid the
ruins of their town, Lidice, tragically
destroyed by the Nazis.
At any rate, leaders of the United
Nations are determined this time that
the war criminals-Hitler, Mussolini,
TOTO and their gangs-do not die of old
age without suffering just punishment.
But how is that punishment to be
assessed and carried out?
A United Nations commission for the
investigation of war crimes is accumulate
ing evidence in London and compiling
a list OF the wanted persons of Ger
many, Italy and Japan. The United
States commissioner. Herbert C. Pen,
former Minister to Portugal and Hun
gary, is going to London to study the file.
President Roosevelt has announced
the Allied intention to punish agents
OF the Axis powers who have perpetrated
atrocious crimes against their innocent
victims"
Brutality Charged to All.
One such crime was the slaughter of
the inhabitants of Lidice and the de-
lberate razing of the town in retaliation
for the killing of Hitler's Gestapo police
man, Heinrich Heydrich. Many other
atrocities have been charged against
the Germans, particularly by the Rus
SANS
The japanese have been accused of
brutalities and apparently there are
charges against the Fascists of Mus
solini. for the Americans, the British and
'HsfseF Russians have asked the neutral
,countriesro refuse them all refuge.
After the First World War the Allies
called for the trial of more than 8oo
Germans accused of war crimes. This
time. President Roosevelt has said. "the
number of persons eventually found
guilty will undoubtedly be extremely
small compared to the total enemy
populations"
81. 1t is our intention" he explained
that just and sure punishment shall be
meted out to the ringleaders responsible
for the organized murder of thousands
OF innocent persons and the commission
OF atrocities which have violated everv
tenet OF the Christian faith"
Many Problems Arise.
Here are some of the problems:
Where will the trials take place?
Fresloent Roosevelt said the culprits
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ton. Churchill asked his friend Bracken
to take the troublesome post.
From the beginning he adopted an ag-
gressive line. He announced that he in
tended to make available to the press
all possible information on the war,
There was to be no nonsense. He would
cooperate to the fullest extent with the
working press.
Bracken has had, of course, tremen-
dous advantage over Elmer Davis, his
opposite number in this country; an ad-
vantage that is in some respects inherent
in the British form of government, AS
a member of Parliament, he sits on the
government bench on the floor of the
House. There he can respond directly
to his critics; he is one of them. And
he certainly has not hesitated to talk
back when the Ministry of Information
has been under fire.
Under Lord Macmillan the MOI was
frequent target. Bracken soon cured
random adversaries who thought they
could continue to make a whipping boy
of the ministry. He administered such
verbal trouncings that members of the
House thought twice before venturing
criticism
Real Tongue Lashing.
Last April he took after Capt. Alec
Stratford Cunningham-Reid in an attack
such as the House had seldom heard be-
fore. Cunningham Reid, one of the
most unpopular members of the House,
to put 1t mildly, said that the Ministry
of Information had done poor job in
presenting Britains story to America
This touched Bracken on a sensitive
point. He has believed In allowing
American correspondents in London to
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By Richard G.. Massock,
Associated Press Writer.

shall have to stand in courts of law in
the very countries in which they are
now depressing and answer for their
acts"
Many countries will want Hitler
Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugo-
siavia, France, Norway, Belgium, Greece,
the Netherlands. Ethiopia or Albania
may ask for Mussolini China and the
Philippines are likely to want TOTO for
what the japanese have done there,
although we may prefer to try the Japa-
nese in this country.
When are they to be tried?
After the end to hostilities, but wheth-
er that means soon after the armistice
or after the peace treaties are signed is
a pending question.
| Who shall try the criminals, civil or
military courts?
That is another question which can
not yet be answered. In fact, one of
the greatest problems is that of pro-
cedure-who shall be the judges, the
| juries, the prosecutors, the defense at
torneys?
What rules of evidence are to be ap-
| piled?
Agreement Is Necessary.
That is likely to vary according to the
! site and circumstances of the trial, but
some agreement among the United Ma
lions may be necessary. Anglo-Saxon
| jurisprudence, as practiced in the United
States and Britain, differs greatly from
that OF Soviet Russia, which may want
to apply the practices of the Stalinist
purge trials. The Chinese also have
their own rules that differ from those
of the western world. The question may
be one that only lawyers consider i'm
portant, but the United Nations commits
sion is composed of lawyers y..-ss
The penalty?
Some of the victimized peoples may
demand that criminals be put to
death. A Jewish organization, the Ma
tional Council of Young Israel on the
other hand, has advocated that the Nazi
and Fascist leaders be exiled on some
island where only human pariahs are
| fit to live"
Before the culprits can be brought to
trial, they must, of course, be caught.
Germany, after World War I, refused
to surrender those demanded by the
Allies. Many had escaped to Switzer-
land, which sheltered them. Holland
| refused to extradite Kaiser Wilhelm II,
although his surrender for trial was
called for in the Versailles treaty.
No assurances have yet been received
from the neutrals that they will prevent
landing of fugitives from international
| justice on their territory, or that they
will surrender any who may drop within
their borders by airplane or sneak across
| the frontiers.
Failed in Last War.
The precedent of the last war has been
discarded by the prospective prosecutors
as something they decidedly want to
avoid
AS today, when the various govern
ments, particularly those in exile from
the occupied countries, have compiled
and are compiling dossiers on various
Axis officials, the British, French and
Belgians listed hundreds of Germans
in World War I to be tried for crimes.
The list of more than 800 names was
headed by Crown Prince Frederick Will
helm and several other sons of the
Kaiser; Count Theobald Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, the former chancellor; Field
Marshal Paul Won Hindenberg, Gen
Erich Ludendorff and others high in
Milford chronicle., 1943-12-03
AT ANY COST
BY T. a. HALL. Milford. Del

By T. A. HALL, Milford. Del
l thought of this, and thought OF
that
Last night.
l thought and thought as l sat
BY lamp light,
Tried to think of things to write,
Sat and thought till late i'm night.
Really tried with all my might.
To think of something you would
like
From my pen,
And then,
l just started in this way;
To write some things I'd like to
say;
my Mother. she could talk all
day.
And I'm not far behind her.
And you see / want to mind her,
She knew well the word of God.
And now since she's beneath the
sod.
want to know my Bible too,
So | can make it plain to you;
So when deaths valley you pass
through.
You'll have a guide
BY your side.
For Jesus says, Il am the way"
John 14:6
He'll guide you through the dark
est day.
You needn't fear.
If He is near;
My Mother knew Him. knew Him
well.
That's why l feel that should
You the story.
While she's in Glory
With Dad. too. she waits with Him.
Both wait with Will and John and
Jim
And Sister Mary;
SO | must hurry.
While | live to send the light.
Ger life's billowg through the
night.
At any cost,
Where souls are lost. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1943-12-03
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Let
ters of Administration were in due
form of law granted unto the un-
dersigned, on the 22nd day of No
vember A. D., 1943, and that all
persons having claims against the
estate of the deceased must pre-
sent the same, duly attested. to the
said Nora E. Stevenson. Admins
tratrix of the estate of IRA Steven
son, deceased. on or before the 22n6
day of November, 1914, or abide the
Act of Assembly in such case made
and provided.
NORA E. STEVENSON
Address, Administrative
Millsboro, Delaware, r. ID. n2S-3t
Milford chronicle., 1943-12-03
At TEN O'CLOCK \. NJ.

NJ Ten OCLOCh y. NJ.
The following Household Goods:
Electric ironer. electric irons, cleo
triCt clock. electric hottie warmer.
electric fans. 2 electric radios. electric
lamp, beds and springs. interspring
mattresses. 2 chests. 2 bureaus, two
breakfast sets. metal kitchen cabi-
net, oil cook stove. oil burner. coal hot
water heater. 3 piece living room suite.
Underwood typewriter. metal file
case. } Ioll-away beds, cots and
mattresses. 3 alarm clocks. baby
coach. baby crib. baby stroller. pillows.
silverware, glassware. porch chairs.
large awning. flower stands, large
mirrors. lamps. heavy rubber hall run
ners. 9 Y ~ rug. cole slaw shredder,
(antique dishes. wooden settee. kit
chen chairs. rockers. and spinning
wheeD, paper towels and holder, paper
cups and holder. paper napkins, heavy
aluminium cookery. iron frying pans.
cooking utensils. and pans, cardboard
wardrobeS. heavy drainboard. picture
frames. ice hoX. water cooler heavy
restaurant ware dishes. 6 stands.
ironing boards, rubber sink pads. foot
stand, large and small sheets. blank
cts. spreads. pillow cases. table cloths,
reed clothes hamper. food chopper.
and many other things too numerous
to mention.
TERMS-CASH.
JENNIE GREEN ALIFF
Owner
Dickerson Bros. Auctioneers. n26-2tp
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PUBLIC SALE!
of valuable
Personal Property

Having decided to sell the following
Personal Property. | will offer at Pub
lie Auction. at my farm 3l2 miles east
of Georgetown. on the Lewes Road. on
Milford chronicle., 1943-12-03

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1913
AT TWO O'CLOCK r. NJ
In front of the Baltimore Trust Com
pany, IN the Town OF BridgeVIlle. SttS-
sex County and State Of ID lawarc. the
following deSc.inCd Real Estate. 10
wit:
All that certain tract. piece or Lar
eel Of hand situated in the Town of
BridgevIlle. Northwest Fork Hundred.
Sussex County. State of Delaware,
lying on the West side OF Main Street.
leading from Bridgevillc 10 Seaford.
adjoining lands now or formerly of
John r. Jacobs. Thomas j. GRAY. Silas
E. Hazard. Mabel W Bulow. Edwin
l.. Layton and others. more particu-
larly described as follows. to-Wit: Be
ginning at stone on the West side
OF Nam street. a corner for lands OF
John T. Jacobs. thence with the line
OF the same South 81 and a degrees
West II and q percheS to a stone.
cOrner for lands of said Thomas j.
Gray. thence with the same North Is
degrees West 20 and S{1G perches TO
a stone, corner for lands of said
Silas Il. Hazard thence North 81 de
grees East 5S and l2/luU perches to
line of land OF Edwin l.. Layton. thence
with the same ln I Southeast di-
rectiOn Is feet to "a corner. thence
with the same North 81 degrees East
l6h feet to the West side of Main
tiifii'f NlAi Aiit same sNOuln
Is degrees East ~ and 9/1D percheS
to the place OF beginning. containing
and SIS ACRES or LAND. more
or less. improved with Il Two Story
Frame Dwelling. Barn and other Out
buildings thereon
Being the remainder of the same
land which Joshua =. DickersOn and
Annie T. DiCkerson. his wife convey
ed to John r Elliott by deed dated
April ,. 1906. and recorded in Deed
Book Volume lj6. Page 365.
Subject. nevertheless. To an ease
anchor granted by John r. Elliott to
pany by deed dated January ~ 1880.
and recorded in Deed Book Volume
PTS. Page 3S3
late of John +. Elliott. deceased. un-
authority vested in the Executor by
ment of the said John p. Elliott. de-
prObated in the Registers Office Of
now of record in said Office in Will
Book Volume "a. Page 223
Attendance will he given at the time
and place aforesaid and terms of sale
made known by
WILLIAM f. ELLIOTT
Executor of the Estate of
John L. Elliott. deceased.
John :. DickerSon. -\uctioneer
Lawrence g Elliott
Attorney for Executor. n26-2t
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Wednesday, December Is, '4a

Wednesday, December Is, '43
At 1900 O'CLOCK NOON
At the home of the late Augustus
| HOlson, Lake View Avenue, Milford.
/ Delaware, the following described Real
Estate and Personal Property. to-wit:
PERSONAL PROPERTY
! Oil stove (FlorenceS Frigidaire &C.
! ED. wood cabinet. lot of kitchen uten-
sis, electric tOaster, electric irons, set
| OF dishes. lot of miscellaneous pots and
pans. large roaster, berry set tive
pieces). larGe roaster. refrigerator. rug
10, dining room table and ) chairs,
several odd chairs and rockers. side
board. china closet. . old clocks, l
modern clock. lot glasses, sherbet
dishes. honbon dishes, lot of beautiful
old dishes and glasses. tea set. eight
pieces: antique candle sticks. 2 small
electric lamps for sideboard: waffle
iron, lot of silver knives, forks and
spoons, Brownie No. camera, tele-
phone desk and chair. marble top
stand, antique: electric sweeper, Pre-
mier; hand sweeper. rug II; three
piece living room suite, sofa and two
chairs, inlaid. antique; beautiful ma
hogany table. long mirror, floor lamps,
3 taborets, radio (Philco). china sofa
very old, set andirons (6 pieces).
several small rugs. book case and desk.
3 bedroom suites. springs and mat
blankets, one beautiful counterpane.
large cedar chest; day he'd. old mirror.
lot of tools, washing machine (Lawn-
Dry Ette), lot of canned fruit. lawn
mowers, garden hose (19O feet). step
ladders. ladder, lot ra:les and hoes.
load fireplace wood. 300 gallons oil.
iron safe.
1887 Oldsmobile.
$50 shares First National Bank and
Trust Company. of Milford. Delaware.
(Nunifal Ctorlx
20 shares Seaford Trust Company,
Capital Stock.
REAL ESTATE
The following Real Estate will be
sold during this sale:
NO. Lot with Improvement, To-
Gated on the west side of Lake View
Avenue and adjoining properties of
Stephen P. Toadvine and wife and Mrs.
Elmer T. Williams. being the home
property of the late Augustus Holson.
NO. 2-An that warehouse property
and other buildings dormerlly known
opposite the Pennsylvania Railroad
Freight Office and situated at the cor
ner of Maple Avenue and Church
street and bounded on the west by
of The L. d. Caulk Company
20% of the purchase price of the
Real Estate win be demanded on day
of sale. the balance payable within
thirty days, at which time fee simple
deeds will be given by the Executor.
Said property being sold as lands
and effects of Augustus Holson, de-
ceased, under and by virtue OF the
power and authority vested in the
Executor by Item 3 of the Last Win
and Testament of the said Augustus
HoIson. deceased. dated March 4,
1913. and probated in the Registers
Office of Sussex County, November IS.
l943, and now of record in said office.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY
Milford. Delaware.
Executor of the estate of
Augustus Holson, deceased.
]. L. Stevens. Auctioneer.
Isaac ID. Short. 2nd,
Attorney for Executor d3-2f