The author is Commerce Counsel of the Chicago and North Western Railway. He served as an officer of Field Artillery and in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, Regular Army, his last commission being Lt. Colonel, and is a member of the Committee on Military and Naval Law, American Bar Association. He maintains that the proposed Neuremburg trials are ill conceived and without legal foundation, and those accused of actual war crimes should be tried by military commissions under the law and customs of war.-EDIToR.