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Franklin Roosevelt

No other event could bow so many human heads in a common sorrow and a sense of personal loss. Throughout the land, by countless humble firesides people feel less secure today because he is gone; for, while he walked with Kings, they knew that he never lost the common touch; that he was their friend and advocate; that while he lived there would be no forgotten man. Neither sea nor land stretched far enough to get out of range of his sympathy and understanding.

Rule of Law Among Nations

On April 13, 1945, Justice Robert H. Jackson delivered a speech at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington D.C. This speech was given the day after the death of President Roosevelt. In the speech, The Rule of Law Among Nations, Jackson urged that any war crimes trials following the war be genuine, informed by due process and the rule of law, and not pruned proceedings, contrived to reach a designed end.

Worst Crime of All

For the first time in history four of the world's dominant nations have recognized the principle that to plot of launch a war of aggression is a crime for which individuals may be convicted and punished. This is, perhaps, the most significant feature of the agreement signed in London on August 3, 1945, for their respective Governments by Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellot of England; by M. Robert Falco, a judge of the Cour de Cassation, the highest court of France; by Maj. Gen. L. T. Nikitchenko, Vice President of the Supreme Court of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, and by me on behalf of the United States.

Christmas Eve Address

This is the first Christmas in many years which does not find the world engaged in a major war. Christmas should bring home to all peoples, regardless of race, creed or nationality, what it really means to the world that this year marks the conquest of the Nazi-Fascist-Japanese drive to dominate the world. We who are here in Nuremberg, far from home but close to the scenes of the war, have thrust upon us a new appreciation of the significance of Christmas.

The Trials of War Criminals

There exists between France and America an intellectual kinship closer than commonly is recognized either side of the Atlantic, outside of the legal profession. The American ideal of representative free government represents the convergence of two great streams of Eighteenth Century liberal thought. One stream flowed from France, from the advanced thinkers of its pre- revolutionary days.

Roosevelt Commemorative Ceremony Address

It is an honor and privilege to speak to the people of Czechoslovakia who desire to meet in respect for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It is the anniversary of a sad day in the lives of all of us who were permitted to serve under him in his government. I could tell you, if I were more gifted, of his kindness toward us and his thoughtfulness of the men about him.

Closing Argument for Conviction of Nazi War Criminals

An advocate can be confronted with few more formidable tasks than to select his closing arguments where there is great disparity between his appropriate time and his available material. In eight months- a short time as state trials go- we have introduced evidence which embraces as vast and varied a panorama of events as has ever been compressed within the framework of a litigation. It is impossible in summation to do more than outline with bold strokes the vitals of this trial's made and melancholy record, which will live as the historical text of the Twentieth Century's shame and depravity.

The Nurnberg Trial

The University of Buffalo is passing the century mark. But what is more significant is that it attains a venerable age without losing the spirit of youth. It today dedicates its century-old accumulation of experience and academic tradition to the intellectual and ethical advancement of the youth of the coming century. I take pride in being admitted to its circle and asked to speak on this occasion.

Lawyers Today: The Legal Profession in a World of Paradox

We are aware that lawyers exert an influence on the social and governmental policy of the United States that is disproportionate to their numbers. The same is true in varying degrees of the legal profession in other countries. Its function and interest everywhere are concerned with movement and policies that affect the fundamental legal structure on which the individual relies for security and free personality.

The Significance of the Nuremberg Trials to the Armed Forces

The armed services are naturally concerned as to what we were driving at at Nuremberg, and as to the principle on which the leaders of the German armed services were called upon to pay a penalty for their acts. Military men throughout the world wanted to know what it was that brought the German military men to that somewhat unhappy position. I propose to face that problem very frankly today and to discuss the effect of this trial on the profession of arms.