Adolf Eichmann, the captured Nazi leader who directed the annihilation of 6, 000, 000 Jews in Europe, was today brought again before a magistrate for another extension of his detention warrant. These have been extended every two weeks.
Minister of Justice Pinhas Rosen was reported here today as stating that Eichmann will be entitled to demand a preliminary hearing before the actual trial takes place. He indicated that the Israel Government would announce that foreign judges could be present at the trial if they so desired. However, they would attend only as observers. Any judge who would submit credentials showing that he represented a particular country would be enabled to attend on that basis.
Attorney General Gideon Hausner today confirmed a report that the Ministry of Justice has invited a prominent American Jewish lawyer who was a special adviser to the U.S. Attorney General at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, to assist him in the prosecution of Eichmann. However, he declined to furnish the name of that lawyer since the latter has not yet officially accepted the invitation.
(In New York, it was believed that the lawyer invited to assist the Israeli Attorney General was Dr. Jacob Robinson, one of the world’s outstanding experts on international law who served as special assistant to Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court during the Nuremberg trials. Dr. Robinson, who came to the United States from Lithuania in 1940, after the outbreak of World War II, declined to comment on the report.)
Mr. Hausner said also that, when Eichmann is brought to trial, his chief defense counsel, Robert Servatius, a German lawyer, will be assisted by several other foreign attorneys.
In the meantime it was emphasized here today that two months have elapsed since the Israel Government had asked several East European countries if they were willing to cooperate in providing material for the Eichmann trial. No replies have been received yet, a fact which is in marked contrast to statements in the press of these countries that Eichmann must be judged and severely punished.
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