Morning Session
MARSHAL: May it please the Tribunal, the Defendant Ribbentrop is absent today.
THE PRESIDENT: Would it be convenient to Counsel for the Prosecution and the Defense if at 2 o’clock today we were to deal with those interrogatories and affidavits which have come in since the last applications were made?
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE (Deputy Chief Prosecutor for the United Kingdom): My Lord, it would be perfectly convenient for the Prosecution.
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Sauter, do you think it would be convenient for the Defense Counsel to deal with those matters at 2 o’clock?
DR. SAUTER: Certainly, Mr. President; I will inform the other defense counsel that these applications will be discussed at 2 o’clock.
DR. RUDOLF DIX (Counsel for Defendant Schacht): I agree with my colleague, Dr. Sauter, that this should be done. But if this is done at 2 o’clock it will interrupt my final speech. I should be very grateful if it could be done immediately after Dr. Sauter finishes his speech, so that I could present my plea coherently. It would be very awkward if I were interrupted.
THE PRESIDENT: Certainly, Dr. Dix. Very well; we will do it immediately after Dr. Sauter’s plea.
DR. SAUTER: May I speak now, Mr. President?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, Dr. Sauter.