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THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL
OFFICE OF
A P o 124 A, c/o Postmaster, New York
UNITED STATES MEMBER
Nurnberg, Germany
January 5, 1946
The President
The Whi te House
My dear Mr. President:
When I called my wife on Christmas morning she told me that you and
Mrs. Truman had sent us a Christmas card; and that you had also sent me
your photograph and the Proclamati on Scroll, bot th autographed. And now
I
have copies of what you wrote, and am very pleased and grateful. It was
generous of you to remember me in such a pleasant fashion.
I spent our ten days vacation with Sir Norman Birkett, the British
Alternate, in England; and he took me to call on the Prime Minister at
Chequers, and gave a luncheon in my honor at which the new Lord Chancellor,
Jowett, proposed my health.
The trial proceeds slowly, as is ne cessary when an entire record of
these terrible ten years of Nazi aggression must be made for future genera-
tions. I think we are in for another three months at least. If the twenty-
two defendants are to have their day in court, and adequate evidence given
about the alleged "Criminal Organizations", involving several hundred
thousands of members, the case cannot be handled as promptly as some of the
American newspapers seem to think appropriate. We are, I think, building
for the future - and the structure must be solid.
There has been some vigorous difference of views inside the Tribunal;
but so far we have settled them privately, and have come up to the public
surface in full agreement.
INATIONAL
SERVICE'*
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