THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal has received your letter of the 17th of June of this year, signed by the Defendant Walter Funk.
DR. SAUTER: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal proposes to take notice of that; and if you will read it, it will then become a part of the record. So if you will read it to us now.
DR. SAUTER: Mr. President, at the moment I do not have the letter with me.
THE PRESIDENT: You may have my copy, but that is in English. The Tribunal would wish you to do it at 2 o’clock, then—to read that letter.
DR. SAUTER: Thank you, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: The same observation applies to Dr. Exner’s letter of the 23d of June 1946 on behalf of the Defendant Jodl; only the Tribunal thinks that that letter also should be signed by the defendant, and read by Dr. Exner at 2 o’clock.
I call on Dr. Jahrreiss.
PROFESSOR DR. HERMANN JAHRREISS (Counsel for Defendant Jodl): Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Tribunal, the main juridical and fundamental problem of this Trial concerns war as a function forbidden by international law; the breach of peace as treason perpetrated upon the world constitution.
This problem dwarfs all other juridical questions.