What record of the Nuremberg trial—perhaps the greatest legal process
in the history of the world—is to be left to posterity? I doubt if anyone has begun to think much about that yet, but it is quite time someone did. Already verbatim reports of the proceedings are piling up in the House of Commons Library, where they are at the disposal of any Member desiring to consult them. " Consult " is the right word, for it must be some uncommon enthusiast who can spare time to read these accumulating foolscap pages of typescript. But they might well be printed in serial form like Hansard, for it can hardly be argued that they are of less importance and interest than the average run of proceedings in Parliament. There is at the same time a great opportunity to set the right person preparing a short descriptive account of the trial on the lines of the brilliant pamphlets on the achievements of the different fighting services turned out by Mr. St. George Saunders. But the time to put that in train is now. I gather the matter is likely to be raised in the House of Commons.
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