JUSTICE AT NUREMBERG
Sta,—By an odd coincidence, I also had heard of the trial of Warren Hastings to which Mr. Warmington refers in his letter of May 24th. I did not cite this case in my original letter as I wished to limit my illus- trations to strictly legal proceedings. An imprvin9cnt is sui generis, and I therefore-did not feel that it was fair to use it as..a bpsis for comparison with the Nuremberg trials. Moreover, it is misleading in the present context to state that the Hastings trial lasted seven years, because during the whole of that period it occupied only a total of 545 days. Whether it is correct to say that the Tichborne civil trial came to an end when the foreman stated that the jury did not require further evidence or when the claimant was formally non-suited on the following Wednesday is un- doubtedly a question of peculiar importance, but as it is hardly relevant to "justice at Nuremberg" I do not feel that it is necessary to discuss Mr. Warmington's point here.—Yours, &c., A. L. GOODHART.
• University College, Oxford.
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