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PENAL CODE TO BE REFORMED
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934
axamining the question whether 1orgier, Dimiroit, and ethers were publia onamian but took pains to stablish whether they actually participated in the burning of the Itolchstag.
However, not only
CHINA AND JAPAN
·FURTHEN REPORTS OF RAPPROCHEMENT
Tokyo, March 6,
Thus, the Nazi law aims in the Berlin, Mar. G. Penal law is one of the things enemies."
Arst place at hitting public Thore is considerable activity the Nazi revolution proposes political offenders are regarded as in commercial etreles, with the thoroughly to reform,
The days of "liberal justice, auch. A significant Naxi reform obiect of closer economic co
declares habitual criminala as operation with China. the German public le told, are public enemies, and prescribes Mr. Kenji Kodama, President of gene. A new code, replacing their detention for an indefalte the Yokohama Specie Bank, and beralism by the sterner prin period (normally, for life), after other businessmen connected with ciples of "blood and soil," le repeated condemnations for grave Sino-Japanese trade. have book emerging,
with recently exchanging viowa Chinoso Logation officials with a view to evolving plans for econó- mic rapprochement.
uffences,
So far only a small part of the
Death For Traitors. legal innovations planned by the Nazis has gone into effect. How.
Death for "traltors, and inde. over, some of the now crimina anite preventivo custody for laws adopted by the new regime habituni criminals, are two most It is understood that further are very significant as they reveal striking reforma already in meetings will be held on the ar- the Nazis legal-principles.
Thas, penalties inflicted for troduced by the Nazis, Another rival of a high Chinese official who mportant innovation will be the is expected shortly in Tokyo- various kinds of "treason" (a legal defonce of the purity of Reuter. dereliction which, in German law. the race.
includes everything possibly
It is expected that heavy
violating the country's interests, penalties will be introduced for
...
down to sprending unfavourable any action resulting in the mixing penalties must be proportionate nowa). have benn increased of German with alien blood--to the results of criminal action. enormously, culminating in the Jewish and Negro blood only be death penalty.
This reform lustrates the Nazis' main principle, namely, that the interests of the com- munity as a whole are infinitely more important than those of the Individual.
Nation First,
ing regarded as alien.
Apart from these concrete mea sures, the Nazis also seek to raviso some of the age-old axioms underlying every modern penal code.
There are, above all, three basle principles of modern criminal law which the Hitlerites seek, to eliminate.
Contrary to this, Nazis hold that an action may be branded as criminal even if it had no harm- ful conaoquences. Thus, abortive attempts at damaging the state's Interests may be punishable.
Finally, the Hitlerites want to bo- bolish the differentiation tween perpetrators, accomplices "Everything that serves the
and instigators of crime. All country's interests is right; every
those participating in a criminol thing that hurts them is wrong" The frat Is embodied in the action, they hold, are equally the criminal aim aa a prominent Nazi legal export dictum, "nila pocna sine lope," ulity. It in
According to declared.
tnis that is to say, no man can be that makes an action criminal. principle, courts should examine punished for acts which were not Thus, under the Nazi code, in in cach case, not whether a man prohibited by law at the time each case when several persons is guilty of any definite action, when they were perpetrated. are tried for a collective action but whether his deeds served or Inner feeling, the Nazis hold, the question will be, oxamined not the country's interests. Thus, should tell every man that certain above all what was the result de every legal discussion before the actions are wrong, even if they sired by all of them, and the Individual's *not expressly courts would be bollod down to are
forbidden. question of each one question, namely, whether Hence, they hold, ho may very contribution toward this desire the defendant le a public enemy. well be condemned for wrong and will be regarded as irrelevant. To Prussian Premier Goaring doing oven if no law has been This principle, of courao, allowa
for sweeping sentences for instance, this principle broken. No self-evident that ho expressed
large groups with avowedly anti- government alms, ovon if they had indignation at the Leipzig court's "liberalistic methods when the
no opportunity to carry out their court did not content itself with
intentions.-United Press.
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It is assumed from Mr. Maf- sudaira's.. attitude that the Japanose Government will refrain ANGLO-JAPANESE PARILEY from giving now Instructions to the delegates here and that the breakdown of the conference, | scheduled, to. Temime to-morrow.
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hoad Mr. Okada,
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