Volume 19, Number 4 · September 21, 1972
Is Anyone Guilty? If So, Who?
By Basil T. Paquet
Medina
by Mary McCarthy
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 87 pp., $2.45 (paper)
War crimes are nothing new to Americans. They have been eager enough to recognize them when other nations or cultures have committed or been party to them. The Nixon Administration would be sure to try to convict any of the Viet Cong who were party to the action in Hue during the Têt offensive of 1968, if they could. The Supreme Court was quick enough to recognize, on February 4, 1946, the nature of the responsibility of those in command for the actions of their troops. In The Matter of Yamashita it confirmed the conviction and death sentence of the Japanese general whose troops did such a fine job of 'pacification' in the Philippines.
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