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Then, with an angry grimace, Goer-
ing intoned:
Il declare myself in the sense OF
the indictment not guilty"
He waddled back to his seat.
Ribbentrop Still Shaky.
Hess barked mo" was officially
recorded as mot guilty." The court
has not yet ruled on his sanity, but
since he was permitted to plead 1t
was assumed he would be tried with
the rest.
The court called Foreign Minister
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, still shaky
from his near-collapse yesterday
when he was treated with sedatives
mot guilty." he announced.
One by one the other Nazi leaders
entered their pleas.
When the roll of the accused Nazi
leaders had been called, Justice
Lawrence ruled that Ernst Kalten-
Drummer, Nazi security chief who
was unable to appear because Of a
cranial hemmorrhage, would be
tried in absentia.
Justice Lawrence frightened the
rules for trial procedure, when he
ruled in answer to another protest
that counsel cannot talk to defend
ants in court except by written note
Listen Closely to Jackson.
When Justice jackson, dressed in
black morning coat. stepped to
the center of the courtroom and
began reading his statement, the
Nazi defendants leaned forward
and listened closely, in marked
contrast to their indifference to the
proceedings yesterday.
When Justice jackson solemnly
stated that the Nazi leaders would
be convicted by their own docu-
ments, Hans Frank, Hitler's ruler
over conquered Poland, laughed
aloud. There were no smiles from
the others, however. y
When Justice Jackson charged
that the burning Of the Reichstag
1 In 1888 was q Nazi plot to open
the way for drive against Com
munists, Goering heaved himself
up like a wounded bull.
Hit fat face showed hard muscle
lines shooting all the way back to
his ears. He sat tense for a mo-
ment, then slowly relaxed.
Justice jackson said the Nazi
chieftains have subjected their
European neighbors to every out
rage and torture, every sponation
and deprivation that insolence,
cruelty and greed could infiict.
They have brought the German
people to the lowest pitch OF
wretchedness, from which they can
entertain no hope of early deliver
ance. They have melted domestic
violence in every continent"
Real Complainant Civilization"
He said the real complaining
party in the trial was civilization
which rs still struggling and i'm
perfect thing"
at does not plead that the United
States or any other country has
been blameless of the conditions
which made the German people
easy victims of the blandishments
and intimidations of the Nazi con.
/, spirators.
But it points to the dreadful.
sequence Of aggressions and crime.
have recited-it points to thu
WEAKNESS of the flesh, the exhaus.
ton of resources and the destruc.
tion OF all that was beautiful Of
useful in so much of the world, anc
to greater potentialities for destruc.
ton in the days to come"
Among the nations the Unitet
States, having sustained the leas
injury, is perhaps in a position t.
be the most dispassionate, he said
But while the United States i
not first in rancor, it is not secons
! in determination that the forces o
law and order be made equal to tn,
! task Of dealing with such interna
! tional lawlessness."
Comedies Lack of Precedent.
Justice jackson conceded there 1.
no judicial precedent for the char.
ter under which the tribunal ex.
lists, but he said international Law
!, grows, like common law, through
t decisions reached from time to tim,
'in adapting settled principles tt
new situations"
Hence, he asserted, "I am not dis.
: turbed by the lack of judicial prece'
dent for the inquiry we propose Il
> conduct"
). In concluding his statement. Jus
tice jackson told the tribunal:
Civilization asks whether law i
! so laggard as to be utterly helpless
: to deal with crimes Of this magni
tude by criminals of this order o
Importance.
ut does not expect that you cal
= make war impossible. It does ex
lpect that your juridical action viii
Z put the forces OF international Law
It's precepts, its prohibitions and
most Of all, its sanctions, on tn
, Iside Of peace, so that men an,
women Of good will In ali countrie
!, may have leave to live by no man.
: leave, underneath the law" &
! Engage In Conversation.
c The prisoners exhibited increases
t friendliness among themselves an,
] engaged in animated conversation
g before the trial reconvened for TIL
8 afternoon session. &
a Only a third of Justice Jackson
opening statement had been read q
|, the morning session. As he con
Z tinued, Hess alone among the de
II PENDANTS did not put on his ear
E lphones to hear the German trans
lation.
d The muscles In Julius Streicher
a. neck twitched and he stared at Jua