POLITICS BROUGHT INTO TRIAL
Received Tuesuay 1.8 a.m.
BERLTN, Dec. 12. The Judge Advocate-Ueneral, Judge L. A. Collingwood, in his sumniing up today in the trial of von Mhnstein, re bulced the defence for trying to turn the trial into a politicai case. He said it was regrettable that the defence had abused every possible latitude granted to it. "There has been not a few oeeasions when it has been entirelv lost to sight that the trial is a eriniinal oue and indeed the Court has been specifically invited to regard it as a politicai , one," he said, "it is nothing 6f tlio kind. ' ' He advised the Court not to aecept two defence submissions, firstly, that a General was conipelled to c-arfy out the orflers of his Government which were acts of state and, secondly, the defence of superior orders. On the second point the Judge Advocate said the circumstances should be taken into eonsideration in mitigation. Ile added that the defence of superior orders applied only to lawful orders. j
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 December 1949, Page 5
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