The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-21
Nippon Sent 10 Assossins
(International)

Continued from Page D the other defendants had stepped one by one to the dock microphone, Goering again rose as though to speak. He was quickly silenced and sat down sulkily.
 Rudolf Hess when called said 'nein." British Lord Justice Sir Godfrey Lawrence said that will be entered as plea of not guilty" Spectators laughed for the first time, and Sir Godfrey threatened to clear the courtroom.
 Declares Self
 Colonel General Alfred Jodl, Ger man Army chief of staff, snapped T have a clear conscience. No guilty" SS General Fritz Sauckel said T declare myself in the sense of the indictment before God and my people not guilty"
 The court permitted Ernst Kal- tenbrunner, former Nazi police chief who is suffering from cranial hemorrage and cannot attend the trial, to reserve his plea until a later date.
 British Lord Justice Sir Godfrey Lawrence announced that the tribu- nal had rejected a joint motion by the defendants which claimed that the court was illegal because there was no basis for it in international law.
 Proofs of Aggression
 AS Jackson relentleSsly drove home point after point in his 2l 900 word denunciation, Goering frown- ed and slumped low in his seat. All the defendants except Rudolf Hess, Baldur Von Schirach and Schacht wore earphones to hear the running German translation.
 These prisoners represent sim ister influences that will turk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dust" Jackson said.
 He said he possessed proof that the Nazi leaders were planning war against the United States from it's Atlantic as well as from its Pacific approaches" He made the statement without enlarging upon 1t while dis cussing German-Japanese relations.
 The defendants. he said, have so identified themselves with the phil osophies they conceived and forces they directed that any tenderness to them is victory and an encour- agement to all the evils which are attached to their names"
 Puts Up First Count
 Jackson was prosecuting the first count of the four-part indictment. This court, sponsored by the Amer jeans, charges the defendants with conspiracy to wage aggressive war. He emphasized that the American case was aimed squarely at the Nazis and their organizations, not at the German nation.
 In his statement, Jackson said, "the German people should know by now that the people of the United States hold them in no fear, and in no hate
 The men who once bullied all Eu- rope sat grim and uneasy as Jack son accused them of bathing the world in blood and setting ciyiliza- ton back a century.
 They have subjected their Euro pean neighbors to every outrage and torture. every spoilation and depriy- ation that insolence, cruelty and greed could inflict," he said. They have brought the German people to the lowest pitch of wretchedness from which they can entertain no hope of early deliverance."
 Pact Violated
 The 20 defendants, including such Naz big-wigs as Reich-Marshal Hermann Goering, Joachim Won Ribbentrop. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Rudolf Hess and Jew Batter Julius Streicher, were among 24 of Adolf Hitlers henchmen who were indicted as war criminals by the United Nations. The others arc dead. missing or in i'll health,
 Jackson said that the Kellogg. Briand Pact to outlaw war, which the defendants are accused of vio. lating. was the first major step to. ward ending the menace of warfare In the modern world.
 The United Nations Organization he said, Is another step. and tn, charter providing for the four power war crimes trial and the tria itself another step in the same di' rection-juridical action of a kins to ensure that those who start wa will pay for 1t personally"
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