1 MARCH 1946, Page 4

The defence at Nuremberg is applying for an odd miscellany

of witnesses. One, asked for by Ribbentrop's counsel, was a "Pro- fessor Conwell-Evans "—to the mystification of Sir David Maxwell- Fyfe, who was not familiar with this particular professor and failed to find him in Who's WRo. Mr. Conwell-Evans, who at one time held a lectureship at a German university and was, I believe, secre- tary of the pre-war Anglo-German Fellowship, might be an inter- esting witness, for the Fellowship was much favoured by Ribben- trop. A reunion in existing circumstances should have its points for all concerned..