military gangsters would be jousting with the wing-collared East
Coast representative of the neat-lawned legal democracies. Jack-
son was a brave champion of human rights. It was he who had
fought for a tribunal in the first place, whereas Roosevelt and
Churchill had argued alike for a “political solution” the liqui-
dation of Göring and his consorts without even the pretense of a
trial.
As Göring took his prominent place at the front and right-
hand end of the dock, Jackson studied his face intently. He re-
alized that so long as this Nazi leader did not choose to upset the
procedure, none of the others would.
Called upon now to enter his plea of Guilty or Not Guilty,
Göring stepped to the microphone, clutching his proposed
declaration. “Before I answer.. .” he began.
The British presiding judge, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, inter-
rupted him. Göring doggedly began again, and Jackson caught
his breath. But Lawrence firmly halted the defendant.
In the dock at
Nuremberg,
Göring found
himself seated
next to Rudolf
Hess, Hitler’s
“truant” deputy.