4 JANUARY 1946, Page 9

The Nuremberg trial is in full swing again, and likely

by all accounts to last for three or four months more yet. Meanwhile the short Christmas recess gave the opportunity for a kind of Nuremberg reunion in London. The British Judges, Lord Justice Lawrence and Mr. Justice Birkett, came home, and Sir Norman Birkett, who brought with him one of the two American Judges, Mr. Francis Biddle, to renew acquaintance with England after twenty years, was host at a small but notable gathering which included also the Attorney-General and one of his " juniors " at Nuremberg, Mr. Elwyn Jones, M.P., and a number of other guests, legal, Parliamen- tary and diplomatic, who knew no more of Nuremberg than the Press had told. It was, of course, a private occasion ; otherwise there would be much to say about it.