The Nome Nugget

BRITISH HIRE LAWYER FOR NAZI

(Hugo S. Sims)

Fritz Erich von Manstein, Nazi Field Marshal during the recent war, goes on trial this month for war crimes.

One of the charges involves mass murder.

Two eminent British lawyers have been assigned to prosecute the case and, in view of this, prominent British leaders, including Winston Churchill, have subscribed to a fund to provide a leading British attorney to assist the German attorneys scheduled to conduct his defense.

Lord De L'Isle, who won the Victoria Cross in the war, has taken the lead in raising funds for the defense.

He says that he is not concerned with whether the former Nazi is guilty or not, that if he had met him during the war he would have shot him but that a suitable advocate should be available so that the defense would be unhampered by the poverty of the accused.

The British peer declares that "I want Britain's reputation upheld." The declaration and the fund attest to the world the vast difference between Anglo-Saxon conceptions of justice and those which obtain in other areas where the accused are not granted the safeguards, in connection with trials, that English-speaking nations accord them.