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    "ocrText": "-10-\nbe so crucial.\nI do not advocate that we follow the method of summary\nexecution which the Russians have allegedly followed, but\nI do believe that we must proceed with prompt and sufficiently\nadequate punishment of the war criminals or we will create\na situation in our relationships with Russia for the immediate\nand immediately foreseeable future which will be a very\nunhappy factor.\nThere will no doubt be constitutional lawyers and many\nof our good people in the United States and in England who\nwill shrink from the idea of anything other than the usual\ncriminal trial, and who will advocate that this is the kind\nof trial we should have for the German war criminals. Any\nother procedure will, in fact, be repugnant to them. For\nthis reason I believe it is necessary further to inform our\nown public opinion so that it will have in mind more\ndefinitely that in the first place this war was not a war\nHARRY NATIONALD LIBRARY\nsuch as we have known in the past. Some little excuse\nU.S.\ncould be found in the past for most wars, or some justification\ncould be built up for them. For this war there can be no\nsuch justification or such excuse. It is a war criminally\nundertaken by a Government and a people for the purpose of\nsecuring world domination, and it involved the enslavement\nof all other peoples as a definite objective. In bringing\nabout this war, every known rule of international law and\njustice"
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