Afternoon Session
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: May it please Your Lordship, the Tribunal should have in front of them a statement of our objections to certain of the documents, arranged in six groups. Attached to that sheet they will find an English summary of the documents, presenting shortly the contents of each one of them. My Lord, with regard to the first group, might I make two erasures from our objection to Number 19, which has been allowed in the case of Schacht, and if I understand Dr. Siemers correctly he doesn’t press for Number 76.
Now, My Lord, the others in that group:
Number 9 is a series of quotations from Lersner’s book on Versailles.
Number 10, the quotation from a book by the German left-wing publicist, Thomas Mann.
Number 17 is the Failure of a Mission, by Nevile Henderson.
Number 45 is a quotation from a book of Mr. Churchill’s.
Number 47 is the report on a complaint to Lord Halifax about an article in News Chronicle criticizing Hitler.
My Lord, Number 66 is rather different. If the Tribunal would be good enough to look at it, it is a report by a German lawyer, Dr. Mosier I think his name should be, who is an authority on international law, dealing with the Norway action. Dr. Siemers has been, of course, absolutely frank with me and he said that it would be convenient to him to have this, which is really a legal argument, embodied in his document book. Of course, that is not really the purpose of these document books; but, of course, it is a matter for the Tribunal, and we felt we had to draw attention to it.
Then, My Lord, Number 76 comes out.