MOCK TRIAL HITS HITLER ON BUT TWO OF FOUR CHARGES

Chancellor Adolph Hitler, present in spirit if not in body at the Lowell House Common Room last night, was found guilty of two crimes against humanity and acquitted of two others by a "bench" of five educators on evidence and arguments presented by members of the Harvard Debating Council at their mock trial last night.

On the charge of killing Kurt von Schlcicher and his wife without giving opportunity for trial, he was found guilty 4-1.

Charged with imprisoning men in concentration camps without definite charges against them, he was found guilty, 3-2.

A 3-2 not guilty verdict was rendered on the charge of murdering or instructing his agents to murder 77 German citizens.

On the charge of invading sanctity of homes without warrant, he was found not guilty 3-2.

All testimony concerning the Nazi leader's persecution of Jews was ruled out as irrelevant to the immediate questions.

One of the interesting sidelights to the trial itself was the attempt of members of the National Student League to introduce testimony of their own. They were silenced on threat of removal from the "court room."

An audience of 200 sat through the testimony for the defense and prosecution, which lasted nearly three hours, heard the German dictator brought to task for the state killings of June 30 and later heard the opposition defend Der Fuehrer for his purge.

Edward M. Rowe '27, Director of Debating, presided over the bench of justices, which included Raphael Demos '19, lecturer in Philosophy, Sydney B. Fay '96, professor of History, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, and Moses Ware '02, trustee of the Debating Council and professor of History at Browne and Nichols School.

Acting as prosecutors at the trial were Robert Dunn '38, Henry V. Poor '35, and Charles Feibleman '37. The defense of the German chancellor was supported by Thomas H. Quinn '87, Arthur G. Sullivan '37, and Frederick DeW. Bolman '36. Before the start of the testimony and arguments, it was agreed that decision would be rendered solely on the basis of the arguments and not on the personal merits of Der Fuehrer.