THE PRESIDENT: Have you the date there? Is it 4 March 1946?
MR. ROBERTS: I have a document before me in German . . .
THE PRESIDENT: I see.
MR. ROBERTS: And the Prosecution’s position was fully stated by Sir David when these matters were being considered before, and it would be now really for the Tribunal, I think, to decide on those two contentions—one for 6 witnesses, and one for 11. What their decision should be . . .
THE PRESIDENT: Sir David, that takes us to the end of the listed ones. There were some that were received later.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: There is one from the Defendant Frank who requests interrogatories to Ambassador Messersmith. That was granted by the Tribunal, and in an executive session. It was not requested in Counsels’ consolidated applications, but heard in open court. There is obviously no objection to that in principle that the Prosecution are aware of.
Then the Defendant Von Ribbentrop requests the book, America in the Battle of the Continents, by Sven Hedin . . .
THE PRESIDENT: Other defendants have administered interrogatories to Mr. Messersmith, have they not?
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Yes, Sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Have the answers been received yet?