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achievements
of the troops are far beyond all
expectations. The superiority of our Air
Force is complete, although scarcely
one-third of it is in Poland. In the
West, I will be on the defensive. France
can here sacrifice its blood first. Then
the moment will come when we can
confront the enemy also there with the
full power of the nation. Accept my
thanks, Duce, for all your assistance
which you have given to me in the past;
and I ask you not to deny it to me in
the future."
That
completes the evidence which I propose to offer
upon this part of the case in respect of the war
of aggression against Poland, England, and
France, which is charged in Count Two.
MAJOR
F. ELWYN JONES (Junior Counsel for the United
Kingdom): May it please the Tribunal, in the
early hours of the morning of the 9th of April
1940 Nazi Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.
It is my duty to present to the
Tribunal the Prosecution's evidence which has
been prepared in collaboration with my American
colleague, Major Hinely, with regard to these
brutal wars of aggression, which were also wars
in violation of international treaties,
agreements, and assurances. With the Court's
permission I would like, first of all, to deal
with the treaties and agreements and assurances
that were in fact violated by these two
invasions of Norway and Denmark. The invasions
were, of course, in the first instance
violations of the Hague Convention and of the
Kellogg-Briand Pact. My learned friend, Sir
David Maxwell-Fyfe, has already dealt with those
matters in the course of his presentation of the
evidence. In addition to these general treaties,
there were specific agreements between Germany
and Norway and Denmark. In the first instance
there was the Treaty of Arbitration and
Conciliation between Germany and Denmark, which
was signed at Berlin on 2 June 1926. The Court
will find that treaty, TC-17, on the first page
of British Document Book Number 3; and to that
exhibit it may be convenient to give the Number
GB-76. I am proposing to read only the first
article of that treaty, which is in these terms:
"The
contracting parties undertake to submit
to the procedure of arbitration or
conciliation, in conformity with the
present treaty, all disputes of any
nature whatsoever which may arise
between Germany and Denmark, and which
it has not been possible to settle
within a reasonable period by diplomacy
or to bring with the consent of both
parties, before the Permanent Court of
International Justice.
"Disputes
for the solution of which a special
procedure has been laid down in other
conventions in force between the