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Parent | Transferring materials concerning The Tripartite Pact and The Anti-Comintern Pact |
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Date | 19 September 1947 |
Language | English |
Collection | Tavenner Papers & IMTFE Official Records |
Box | Box 5 |
Folder | General Memoranda and Reports from September 1947 |
Repository | University of Virginia Law Library |
The principal documents of the Defense are not dealing with the substance of the charges. Exhibits No. No. 2370, 2371, 2508, 2613, 2762, Record page 17083 The greatest part of the documents introduced by the Defense to refute the Prosecution evidence are devoted to the menace which in the Defense?ÇÖs opinion, the Comintern constituted for Germany and Japan, and they say that therefore Germany and Japan had the right to fight it, i.e. the Comintern, and the spreading of Communism. Such are Exhibit No 2370 ?Çô the speech by Foreign Minister Arita in the Diet, Exhibit No 2371 ?Çô the statement of the Foreign Ministry, Exhibit No 2508 ?Çô the speech delivered by Prime-Minister Hayashi in the Diet; Exhibit no 2613 ?Çô explanations given to Arita by Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army Itagaki, Exhibit No 2762 ?Çô affidavit of Ribbentrop. This conception of the Defense is formulated in the Opening Statement of the defense counsel Kiyose. (I quote) ?Ç£The seventh Congress of the communist Intern