Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1130 21 1130-21-p049

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1 t, indicated by the words ‘before or during the war’, apparently iplies that international law contains penal sanctions against individuals, applicable not only in time of war, but also in time of peace; this, in other words, means that there is in existence a system of international criminal Jaw under which individuals are responsible to the community of nations for violations of rules of international criminal law, and that—in certain circumstances—inhumane acts constitute international...