Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                By Simon Bour Iii stars and stripes staff writer n an inconspicuous red Brick Flat on in six eminent lawyers of the United great Britain and Russia meet hold protracted discussions Over a Green con Ference when their labors Are com the stage will be set for the great est criminal session in the trial of Germany leaders for War the six lawyers Are supreme court jus Tice Robert Jackson of the professor Andre Gros and Robert Falco of attorney general sir David Maxwell Fyfe of great and in Kitchenko and Trainin of the these who will in All likelihood be the prosecutors at the coining Are considering a proposal for trying the chief War criminals before an International military the fact that they Are in almost Complete agreement upon the proposals main Fea Tures makes it Likely that Germany War leaders will be brought to Justice in London it is said that the trial May begin by the end of the masses of evidence remain to be and procedures must be established for a court that will be the first of its observers acquainted with the Case being prepared say that the present delays will pay off when the trial the important thing is that once the trial commences Germany War leaders will swiftly and surely be trapped inside the Allied Legal a basis will then be Laid for convicting the smaller Fry among the War criminals trials of minor War criminals have already begun in military courts in the British and rus Sian occupation zones of but it is Felt that procedure in these lesser cases can be Given greater uniformity in the future by the example of Maior criminal Justice Jackson has established a formula for trial of Germany War criminals War crimes commission in London had listed some War but the commission was no More than a secretariat it could neither nor judge War so timid was the commission on calling the chief nazis War and setting Down German crimes against jews As War that lord its British resigned in Russia was not a member of the that the chief Allied nations Are now working in unison to punish Germany War leaders is More than any to Justice Early in Jackson was appointed by president Truman As chief counsel for the in prosecuting the principal War the next month he presented a formula for prosecuting and trying the chief criminals that had almost Complete Allied and with which the was prepared to Advance alone if other nations did not Jack sons plan at once established the Leader ship of the on the whole War crimes his report to the president Fol lowing his exploratory trip to the is considered an important stale remarkable for its common a non technical approach to the matter of War Jacksons plan is this to put All Ger Many from the army and Industry and the Gestapo and into the Dock at the same and try them for conspiring to destroy civilization by committing the crime of waging an agr Gressie once Germany leaders Are the trial of the lesser War criminals will follow on a local with their conviction depending on whether they can prove not to have been part of the criminal this which was advanced in Sim Pler form by the czechoslovak government last and its broader Legal aspects was authored by White House Legal adviser Samuel Rosenman and admittedly treads upon untested ground in International but one of the main reasons the War crimes commission floundered was that it attempted to measure the wars crimes by proven is a vastly unproved Outle ii Breiu he situation that confronted the allies at the wars Twe months As the advancing Ahmed armies locked up More and Mare naw and daily unveiled new German barbarism to the Ahmed Public opinion clamoured for Quick punishment of the War criminals there was general Surprise then that no real preparations had been after two years of existence the United nations Legal by the Ordinary rules of land Diplomat Franz von industrialist Alfred Krupp von Field marshal Albert and a Host of committed no neither did the germans who murdered jews for racial or religious reasons yet both these classes of criminals Are se6 Down for punishment under the Jackson which has not dared depart from proven Law to obtain Jackson sets Down four main classes of War criminals and the tribunals by which they will be soldiers who violated the Laws of land warfare by murdering Allied prisoners of these will be tried in British and russian military some of which already arc operating in the German occupied who mistreated and murdered civilians in the occupied these Are being sorted out and sent bade to the scene of their crime for in line with the agreement made at Moscow in 1943 by the chief executives of the and the United who committed crimes against other germans for racial religious the courts ate not specs but it has been suggested that the allies May set up German courts for this and try offenders under the Man criminal of the German army and of Industry and and of the Gestapo and these Are the criminals offences have no geographical according to the Moscow and who will be tried of the International military tribunal now being organized in the idea that the head of a state or an army can be tried for his acts is considered strictly unorthodox by most inter National when a much Milder indictment than the present one was drawn up against the Kaiser at Versailles in the and Japan argued that Heads of states were immune from War crimes in his report to presi de pfc Jackson tossed this doctrine into the Ash along with another obsolete men who act under orders of their superiors cant be held re both of these doctrines will be barred As a defense at the there will be no such nonsense at the trial As discussion Between the prosecution on Page Vii