The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-12

bolic face is picture of his Sat
anic heart and crimes. JOdl, whose
planning genius made it possible
for German forces to scourge
Europe and to threaten the mas
terry of the world. Raeder and Do
nltz, heads of the German Navy.
who sent their rattlesnakes of the
sea into every ocean and left
their victims Strewn even upon
the Coast of Florida. Fritz
che, who spewed out under Goeb
bells the foul Nazi propaganda.
Four indicted men are not in
the courtroom: BOrman, Deputy
Party Leader to Hitler, has never
ben caught; Krupp, head of the
Krupp Steel Works which for
generations has armed German
aggressive wars, is mentally and
physically unable to be present at
the trial; Kaltenbrunner, Hmm
Ier'S accursed deputy, who muir
dered countless millions and tor
tured millions more, is danger
ously i'll from a cerebral hemorr-
hage; and Robert Ley, who en-
shaved, tortured and killed even
German labor before he commit
ed worse OutrageS upon foreign
labor, killed himself by Strangula-
ton with a cord which was the
edge of a towel.
For four days I could hardly
keep my eyes off of them as they
sat in the prisoners dock-theI
civilians in civilian clothes, the.
men from the Armed Services in
their respective uniforms but
without insignia of rank or dec,
GRAFTON. Keitel sits like the stern
German soldiers; Hess, protesting
to be mentally unbalanced, APP
pear to be listening to nothing but
to be reading a novel; GoeringI
often makes notes, sometimes
shakes his head and occasionally
nod His fat body and superfici-
ally genial manner and childish
love of vain display concealing as
grim and INSCRIPTIONS a lust for
power and cruelty as is to be
found among any of the NaziI
gang: Ribbentrop, an ADLER APP
pearlng man than 1 thought he
was. has broken greatly
During the reading of the in
dIctment most of the prisoners did
not listen but when Justice Jack
son delivered his opening state
ment Of the case it seemed for the
first time that their faces showed
some conviction of their heinous
guilt For four and half hours
Justice Jackson in measured and
solemn words poured out man.
kinds indictment upon these new
wretched and broken but blood
stained men. He spoke to hushed
and crowded courtroom-butI
there seemed TO be lowering in
that room not only living men but
the ghosts OF millions of dead
whom these men had murdered,
and Justice Jackson seemed TO
speak with their voices too.
When he finished there were.
tears in many eyes, including
mine, and you felt that at last the
conscience Of the world had had
chance to condemn these men.
Their crimes had been so numer-
Gus, their devastation SO extern
sive, their wrongs so unspeakable
that it had been hard to get them
into focus. But Justice Jackson
marShalled them into a more
Scathing indictment than the
charges of Demosthenes against
Phillip. He was inspired because
he was deeply sensible. as you
felt, that he was discharging
mission in this prosecution, with
others associated with him, not
only to prosecute and to punish
these men by the precedent of
this case to stop other men from
the commission of scuh crimes. He
not only spoke against war and
crime, he spoke knowingly for
peace, law and order on earth.
The United Nations Organization,
and now this trial, speak to our
dead that they have not died IN
vain