TICKLISH MOMENTS
AT PENAL CONFERENCE NAZI METHODS CRITICISED BERLIN, Aug. 21. A young London lawyer, Air G. H. Bing, startled the International Penal Conference by criticising Nazi justice. Delegates were disciussing a German report on. methods of curtailing longdrawn trials when Mr Bing interposed, °The idea of giving a Judge the right to curtail speeches and to refuse to take evidence in order to shorten a trial is entirely contrary to English ideas of justice. “We feel that the proposal to curtail trials has been introduced in order to obtain internal sanation of a type of trial which is favoured here. The trial of Herr E. Thaelmann will he coming on soon, but German justice will be on trial also.’’ Amid a chorus of Nazi protests, the president (Dr. Hanz Franck) intervened and said that speakers were not allowed to resort to irrelevent examples. •Concentration Camps In another section of the conferon’ce a French delegate denounced what he described as “Nazi repression,” as exemplified by the concentration camps. Dr. Franck, head of the Academy of Jurists, later protested against international boycotting, which he said was just as much a menace to international juridical pea’ee as revolutionary war p ro p a gan d a.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 7
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204TICKLISH MOMENTS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 7
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