“It would be erroneous to believe that the second World War came about accidentally or as a result from mistakes of one or the other of the statesmen, even though such mistakes were made without doubt. Actually the war came about as an inevitable result of the development of international economic and political forces based on modern monopolistic capitalism.”[[B]]
[B] Speech by Stalin on the eve of the Soviet elections in February 1946.
Professor Jahrreiss has already fully explained, in his basic arguments concerning the legal and the actual significance of the Kellogg Pact, that the meaning given to this project for the prevention of war by the Prosecution cannot be recognized by the Defense.[[C]]
[C] Mr. Justice Jackson is trying in this connection to invoke Article 4 of the Weimar Constitution of 1919. According to this, the universally recognized rules of international law are regarded as binding components of German Reich law. Owing to the differing legal appreciation of the Kellogg Pact on the part of the Great Powers the interpretation advanced by the Prosecution cannot be looked upon as German Reich law.
Cf. Reich Supreme Court Decisions in Litigation Procedures, Vol. 103, Page 276.
Anschütz: The Constitution of the German Reich (Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reiches); 10th ed., Page 58 et sequentes.