Nuremberg Club

DARTMOUTH ALUMNI AT NAZI TRIALS ORGANIZE IN DEFENDANTS' DOCK

DARTMOUTH'S ALUMNI CLUB of Nuremberg was formally installed in the defendants' docket at the scene of the International Military Tribunal's court, as four members of the Hanover family queasily applied their breeches to the bench in place of Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop and Keitel.

Not quite as impressively as their predecessors under the four flags of the U. S., England, France and Russia, the Nuremberg Club also took the oath in the judge's bench and proclaimed their intention of establishing justice in the local Grand Hotel, where one guest a week only is allowed and Scotch bottles, procured under an international priority, are rationed at the bar one to the hour.

The installation was intoned by Major Frank B. Wallis '25, of Beverly, Mass., whose confident manner in the dignified setting had been conditioned previously by a six-hour address delivered as a member of Justice Jackson's staff.

Brash novitiates were Capt. Robert H. Maida '3.5, of Long Branch, N. J.; and Lt. Roddy Shearer '45, of Minneapolis; and and Lt. Robert R. Rodgers '43, of San Francisco, Calif. Lip service was paid to Lt. Budd Schulberg '36 of Hollywood, Calif., absent in Berlin, where he was collating more photographic evidence on the camera-loving Germans.

Major Wallis, one of the Trial Counsel of the U. S. prosecution staff before he returned to Massachusetts for discharge early in December, presented that section of the brief covering the Master Plan and Conspiracy. He outlined before the judges of the four nations the acquisition of totalitarian control of Germany and preparations for war. His six-hour address began at 1400 on Thanksgiving Day and was finished at 1145 the next after the night recess.

Captain Maida, who came to Nuremberg in September as lawyer assigned-to develop the trial brief on crimes against combatants, is now assistant executive officer to Mr. Jackson He reported overseas after Military Intelligence Service work in Washington.

Wearing the Air Medal with two clusters for P-38 fighter-bomber missions while with the 474th Fighter and 10th Photo Ren. Groups, Lieutenant Shearer is now assigned as a special pilot to the U. S. delegation. Veteran of 30 missions in combat, he is unwilling to admit that his "special piloting" for the Americans is mostly jockeying an L-5.

Lieutenant Schulberg, more frequently in Berlin than Nuremberg, is an editor in the Photographic Evidence Section of the Office of Chief Counsel. He and his staff were responsible for discovering, viewing and editing millions of feet of documentary, damning film available to the prosecution and startling both defendants and spectators when shown at the trials.

In Nuremberg since the first broom sweepings in the prison cells and calcimine painting in the bombed Palace of Justice, Lieutenant Rodgers is Public Relations Officer for the isf U. S. Infantry Division, whose tactical troops provide the security and house-keeping for the prisoners and four nations' delegations, and for the IMT Command, whose commanding general is responsible for the entire project, physically, including such accidents as Ley's suicide, the murder of a Russian GI in the foyer of the Grand Hotel, and the German obstinacy of fourth-floor courthouse latrines.