Thursday. April 13. 1961 University Daily Kanean
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Court Jurisdiction Still Question
Pressure Begins to Irk Eichmann
By Harry Ferguson
EICHMANN HAS a nagging cold and gradually the picture of the Prussian officer disappeared. Instead, we saw a thin man of medium height sitting in a bullet proof glass box, sneezing and blowing his nose. He took off his horn-rimmed glasses and polished them. He fiddled with the earphones through which he gets a German translation of the proceedings. He scribbled notes to his lawyer.
JERUSALEM — (UPI) — Adolf
Fichman is beginning to fret.
Two solid days of legal oratory—words which he probably doesn't comprehend but which might mean life or death to him—have made him nervous and fidgety. They didn't operate this way in Adolf Hitler's SS corps. You issued an order and got some action. Here the voices drone on about such matters as Blackstone's legal commentaries and involved verdicts handed down in law courts long ago and far away.
All this is necessary for the proper administration of justice, but it's tough going for a layman unschooled in the intricacies of law. And Eichmann is a legal layman. In the opening hours of the trial Tuesday he was the picture of a proper Prussian officer. He stood ramrod straight. His eyes never wavered from the bench where a judge was reading the indictment against him.
A siren blew at 8 a.m. and there was silence. A ceremony known as reburying of the ashes of the martyrns was held. The prosecution contends Eichmann made 6 million martyrns.
ROBERT SERVATIUS. Eichmann's West German lawyer, gave the prosecution something to think about when he challenged the legality of the proceedings.
day. His trial is in adjournment until tomorrow morning because this is "Holocaust Day," commemorating the deaths of millions of Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
He contended no Israeli jurist could sit fairly in judgment on a Nazi, that Eichmann was illegally removed from Argentina and forced by threats to sign a letter agreeing to the removal, that special laws passed by the Israeli Parliament for Eichmann's trial are a breach of international law, that one unspecified judge on the bench disqualified himself to sit in judgment on Eichmann by a verdict he rendered in a case somewhat similar.
Even though he understands little about the law. Eichmann must realize that despite the fact he has been sitting in court for two days, his trial actually hasn't started. What is going on is an argument about whether he is going to be tried at all by this court made up of three Israeli judges.
Eichmann gets some surcease to-
HE HAS cited British, American and French legal precedents to the effect that a court is not concerned about the methods used to bring a defendant before it even if kidnaping was involved. He has replied to the demand that Eichmann should be tried before a neutral tribunal by pointing out that the World Court in The Hague concerns itself with litigation between nations, not nations against individuals. If this Israeli court is incompetent to try Eichmann, he said, then the defendant must be released and allowed to return to Argentina and live the rest of his life in safety. There is no place else to try him.
In one electric moment yesterday Hausner broke out of his recital of legal precedents and delivered a dramatic denunciation of the Nazi terror against the Jews.
"THE DEFENSE counsel." Hauser said, "has suggested that Germany has paid for its crimes against the Jewish people by the reparations agreement (the payment of money by West Germany to Israel). You have the reparations. What else do you want, he asks. I want to say with all the emphasis at my command that reparations are not atonement, their acceptance does not mean forgiveness nor obliteration of the facts in one's memory.
Ever since the forenoon of Tuesday the Attorney General of Israel, Gideon Hausner, has been replying to the demand that the court disqualify itself.
Templin, Lewis Plan Sports Area
The interest of two Templin Senate members have spearheaded a drive with fulfilled plans calling for a multi-purpose sports court for Templin and Lewis Halls.
The two senate members, Monty McClellan, Mission junior, and Harvey Najim, Wichita junior, organized the project and presented it to the Templin Senate. Total cost of the court is estimated at $2,750.
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THE SENATE voted to appropriate $500 from this semester's social fund for the project. Next semester $250 will be appropriated from the social fund.
The university will use $2,000 o Templin's operating budget next semester for the court. Templin's operating budget is about $250,000 each year.
"The area will include two double tennis courts, four basketball goals, two volleyball courts and two badminton courts," Najim said.
"The material used for construction will be decided by the University," Najim said. "But I think it will be asphalt, because it is better for basketball and tennis."
The court will be constructed behind Templin this summer. It will be 72 feet wide and 120 feet long.
NAJIM SAID he and McClellan went to a meeting of the Lewis Senate and presented the idea to them.
Katy Echels, Kansas City, Mo., junior, is the Lewis Senate representative on the project. "Lewis is raising enough money to provide equipment for the court," she said.
"There was a favorable response immediately," Najim said.
Najim said they hoped to eventually install lighting and build fences, but that no money had been appropriated for either yet.
Prof. Field's Article on Dewey Is Published in Georgia
In the article, Prof. Fields says Dewey is concerned with the relation of public opinion to governing by active consent of the governed.
J. Eldon Fields, professor of political science, had his discussion of "The Public and Its Problems" by John Dewey published in the "Journal of Public Law," a biannual publication of Emory University Law School, Atlanta, Ga
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"For such crimes there is no atonement, no forgiveness and no forgetting. All we can hope is that the children will not resemble the parents, that the new generation in Germany will not be like the old."
English Serve Tea—Not Beer
HAUSNER TURNED slightly toward the glass box and looked at Eichmann. "He who has committed such crimes cannot be forgiven," he said. Eichmann sat up straight. That was the kind of language he understood.
ENGLISH SERVEED — BOSTON, England — (UPI) — The town council has decided that 200 army men will be served tea instead of beer after a traditional ceremonial march next month. The official reason for the change: To save money.
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