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has
the aspect of being universal and of
extremely long duration.'"
But,
My Lord, perhaps even Mussolini did not
appreciate what all Germany's aims were; and, of
course, the offer was turned down in the
illuminating letter which Hitler was to write in
reply. I refer you back to the document before
that. It is still part of the same Exhibit
GB-75.
THE PRESIDENT: As I understand
it, the "GB" references you give are
not on the documents at all; they are the
exhibit numbers themselves, which are to be put
on the document after they have been put in.
LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: Yes. That is
correct. They will be put in by the Court, of
course.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you try to
make clear the references which are on the
document so that the Tribunal could find the
document itself?
LT. COL.
GRIFFITH-JONES: Yes. The last document was
1831-PS, and it is the very last one in the
document book. That is the one I have just
referred to — the telegram from Mussolini.
The document to which I am about to refer is the
one but last in the Tribunal's book but it has
the same number on it as the last because it
forms part of the same exhibit.
THE
PRESIDENT: I think if you would just explain the
system in which the exhibits are numbered, it
would help us.
LT. COL.
GRIFFITH-JONES: The exhibits are numbered at the
present moment before they are put in evidence
with a variety of serial numbers, such as "PS",
"TC", "L" and other letters.
There is no significance attached to that at
all. It depends on whom they have been found by
and what files they have come from. When the
documents are put in as exhibits, they are
marked by the Court with a court number. The
documents put in by the United States
representatives were all prefixed with the
letters "USA." The documents which
have been put in by the British prosecutors have
all been prefixed with the letters "GB."
If it would be of any assistance to members of
the Tribunal, I will have their document books
marked up this evening with the new court
numbers that have been Put upon them by the
Court officials, during the course of the day.
THE
PRESIDENT: We will talk about that later.
LT.
COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: If there is any document
missing from any of these books, I have a copy.
THE PRESIDENT: You are going to read
1831-PS?
LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: Yes,
that is GB-75.