Monday, Aug. 23, 1943

What of the Guilty?

Erudite Dr. Oscar Stevenson, professor of penal law at the University of Brazil, proposed last week at Rio de Janeiro that war guilt be pinned on: 1) government leaders; 2) military executives; 3) ministers; 4) sovereigns--not on the common people of aggressor nations. In a resolution referred to a committee of the Inter-American Bar Association for further study, he urged that war criminals be tried by civilian-military courts of their fellow countrymen.

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