Exhibit Number 5 is an excerpt from the book written by Mr. Sumner Welles, The Time for Decision. Our objection to this excerpt is based on the same grounds; it contains only an opinion of Mr. Welles and, however valuable in some places, it is incompetent here.
Exhibit Number 6 is the book by Viscount Rothermere which was already passed upon by the Tribunal with respect to the application of the Defendant Göring. We renew the objection that was made at that time, citing again that it is only the opinion of this gentleman and is of no value before this Tribunal.
Exhibit Number 7 is the Messersmith affidavit, which was offered in evidence by the Prosecution. We have no objection to that, of course.
Exhibit Number 8 is also a Prosecution exhibit. No objection.
Number 9, likewise.
Number 10 is an affidavit or declaration by the late Field Marshal Von Blomberg, and we have no objection to that.
Passing on, we have no objection until we reach Exhibit Number 14, Ambassador Dodd’s diary—and it is not really an objection there. We ask that we be given the dates of the entries—they have not been given to us thus far—or the pages from the diary from which it is intended to quote.
We go on to Exhibit Number 18. The intervening exhibits, of course, we have no objection to...
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Dodd, I understand this is really a question of what shall be translated, is it not?
MR. DODD: Yes. We are objecting now, because we want to save the labor of the translation.