GÖRING: I do not think I can recall reading beforehand the publication of the mobilization preparations of the United States.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, I respectfully submit to the Tribunal that this witness is not being responsive, and has not been in his examination, and that it is . . .
[The defendant interposed a few words which were not recorded.]
It is perfectly futile to spend our time if we cannot have responsive answers to our questions.
[The defendant interposed a few words which were not recorded.]
We can strike these things out. I do not want to spend time doing that, but this witness, it seems to me, is adopting, and has adopted, in the witness box and in the dock, an arrogant and contemptuous attitude toward the Tribunal which is giving him the trial which he never gave a living soul, nor dead ones either.
I respectfully submit that the witness be instructed to make notes, if he wishes, of his explanations, but that he be required to answer my questions and reserve his explanations for his counsel to bring out.
THE PRESIDENT: I have already laid down the general rule, which is binding upon this defendant as upon other witnesses.
Perhaps we had better adjourn now at this state.
[The Tribunal adjourned until 20 March 1946 at 1000 hours.]