15 APRIL 1949, Page 5

I am glad to see that the American war criminal

court at Nurem- berg has given a fairly clean sheet to Herr von Weiszacker, State Secretary in Germany from 1938 to 1943, whom I used to know reasonably well. That, in spite of the office he held, he warned the British Ambassador in Berlin of the impending attack on Poland in 1938, and the probability that Russia would join in and share the spoils, is very much in von Weiszacker's favour. Sentence on him has still be to be passed, but I should hope it would be little more than nominal.

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