Roger Baldwin, chairman of the League for the Rights of Man, denied today in letters to the British press that he had ever said that the Cairo trial of 13 Jews on charges of “espionage and sabotage” had been conducted in a “spirit of fairness.”
In his letter, Baldwin said; “I made no such comment. I arrived in Egypt after the trial had concluded. My comment was construed from remarks I made on another trial I witnessed of Moslem Brotherhood members, where procedure was as fair as before any military court.
“While the procedure in the Zionist case was evidently the same, fair procedure does not make fair trials. The judges were military officers without legal training and they reflected, inescapably, the political policies of the government,” Mr. Baldwin pointed out.
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