COUNSEL AT VARIANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26176, 12 June 1946, Page 5

COUNSEL AT VARIANCE

NUREMBERG SCANDAL (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 11. In a 2000-word statement cabled to the United States Senate and House of Representatives Judicial Committees, Mr Justice Robert Jackson, of the United States Supreme Court, who is chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, declared that his Supreme Court colleague, Mr Justice Hugo Black, had “ threatened him with war ” unless he covered up the facts of a case in which a former law partner of Black was involved. “If war is declared, I propose to wage it with the weapons of an open warrior, not those of a stealthy assassin,” he continued. Mr Justice Jackson’s statement also alleged that Mr Justice Black was behind what he described as unjustified press attacks on him.