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MORE CASES SOON.
REICH BUSINESSMEN.
Justice Jackson's Report
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16--Justice
Robert Jackson, of the U.S. Su
preme Court, who recently re
signed as Chief US. Prosecutor at
the Nuremberg trials, formally
repcrting to President Truman,
said a very large number of Ger
mans who participated in war
crimes remained unpunished.
There were many whose guilt did
not differ from that of those
convicted except that their parts
were at lower levels and were less
conspicuous.
Justice Jackson's deputy on the
prosecution staff, Brig.-General Tel
ford Taylor, is preparing the cases
against representatives of all import
ant segments of the Third Reich, in
cluding a considerable number of in
dustrialists, financiers, leading mem
bers of Cabinet, top S.S. and police
officials and militarists. Justice
Jackson suggested that the most ex
peditous method of trying the ac
cused would be for each occupying
authority to try the prisoners in its
custody. Most accused could be
charged with single specific crimes
which would not involve a repetition
of the history of the whole Nazi
conspiracy.
He said it would be extravagant
to claim that the trials made aggres
sive war or persecution of minorities
impossible, but undoubtedly they
strengthened the bulwarks of peace
and tolerance. Britain, America,
Russia and France, by establishing
the International War Crimes Tri
bunal, had enunciated standards of
conduct which brought new hope to
men of goodwill from which future
statesmen would not lightly depart.
The standards whereby the Germans
had been condemned would become
a condemnation of any nation which
was faithless to them.
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