American Press Views

Chronicle (Levin), 3 October 1946, Page 5

American Press Views

Press Assn

GREAT FAIRNESS 0F TRIAL

By Telegraph

■.-Copyright

Received Wednesday, 8.40 p.m.NEW YORK, Oct. 1. The American Press endorses and praises the Nuremberg Tribunal's flndings against the Nazis although some newspapers express surprise at the aequittal of Schaeht, von Papen and Fritsehe. Tlie Herald-Tribune editorial • says one can only regard the Tribunal's massive work with profouhd respeet. The "surprises" in its judgment become, when one examines closely the reason ed argument which supports them, a convincing attestation to the painstaking fairness with whieh the eases were tried. The Tribunal, in both the general summation and individual fmdings, lays the legal basis for its action firmlv and precisely. It exeludes loose theories of collective guilt. It tries each defendant upon the indictnient as returned and upon nothing else. The Baltimore Evening Sun says the verdicts achieve certain rough justice. There will be some disposition to wonder at the aequittal of von Papen and Schaeht, two of the slipperiest of those who had anything to do with the Hitler Government. There may be some disposition to question the con demnation of Keitel and Jodl who, as sohliers, were required to obey.