2 AUGUST 1946, Page 4

The end of the apparently interminable Nuremberg trial is drawing

near. I gather that sentence on the accused may be- expected about the middle of September, and that whatever inclination to clemency the Court may have had has been considerably damped down by the tremendous indictment embodied by the Attorney-General in his closing speech last week. The Government, incidentally, would do a very valuable piece of work if it would publish at once in cheap and convenient form Sir Hartley Shawcross's two main speeches— the one at the opening of the trial, in which he justified conclusively the procedure it had been decided to adopt, and this last powerful and comprehensive address to the Court. jANUS.