The Case Of Edith Cavell
By James M Beck
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James M. Beck was born July 9, 1861 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 9th 1861. Graduating from Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1880, he then studied law by night whilst working a day job as a railway company clerk. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1884 and the bar of New York City in 1903. Serving as assistant United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania from 1888 to 1892 and as United States attorney in Philadelphia from 1896 to 1900 he ran, in 1898, for District Attorney of Philadelphia. He was appointed by President McKinley as assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1900 and served until his resignation in 1903. He then returned to private practice of law. With the outbreak of World War I, he took a strong stand against Germany and wrote much to outline and show up its lack of civilised behaviour. Here he writes on the Case Of Edith Cavell, the wartime nurse executed by a German firing squad that caused such condemnation from around the world.
James M Beck
James Montgomery Beck (July 9, 1861 – April 12, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Solicitor General and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. (Wikipedia)
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The Case Of Edith Cavell - James M Beck
The Case of Edith Cavell.
A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants.
By JAMES M. BECK
Former Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, and Author of The Evidence in the Case.
James M. Beck was born July 9, 1861 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 9th 1861. Graduating from Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1880, he then studied law by night whilst working a day job as a railway company clerk. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1884 and the bar of New York City in 1903. Serving as assistant United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania from 1888 to 1892 and as United States attorney in Philadelphia from 1896 to 1900 he ran, in 1898, for District Attorney of Philadelphia. He was appointed by President McKinley as assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1900 and served until his resignation in 1903. He then returned to private practice of law. With the outbreak of World War I, he took a strong stand against Germany and wrote much to outline and show up its lack of civilised behaviour. Here he writes on the Case Of Edith Cavell, the wartime nurse executed by a German firing squad that caused such condemnation from around the world.
THE CASE OF EDITH CAVELL.
A Reply to Dr. Albert Zimmermann, Germany’s Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
By JAMES M. BECK,
Former Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, and Author of The Dual Alliance v. The Triple Entente,
and The Evidence in the Case.
Mr. Beck, who is one of the leaders of the New York Bar, is the author of the most widely read article written since the war began, entitled:
The Dual Alliance v. The Triple Entente,
which was subsequently expanded into a book, called The Evidence in the Case,
pronounced by a distinguished publicist to be the classic of the war.
After its publication in THE NEW YORK TIMES this article was reprinted in nearly every language of the civilized nations and over a million copies of it were published.
Those who have regarded the Supreme Court of Civilization, meaning thereby the moral sentiment of the world, as a mere rhetorical phrase or an idle illusion should take note how swiftly that court, sitting now as one of criminal assize, has pronounced sentence upon the murderers of Edith Cavell. The swift vengeance of the world’s opinion has called to the bar General Baron von Bissing, and in executing him with the lightning of universal execration has forever degraded him.
Baron von der Lancken may possibly escape general obloquy, for his part in the crime was no greater than that of Pilate, who sought to wash his hands of innocent blood; but von Bissing will enjoy until the last syllable of recorded time
the unenviable fame of Judge Jeffreys. He, too, was an able Judge and probably believed that he was executing justice, but because he did not execute it in mercy, but with a ferocity that has made his name a synonym for judicial tyranny, the world has condemned him to lasting infamy, and this notwithstanding the fact that he was made Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, Lord High Chancellor of England, and a peer of the realm. All these titles are forgotten. Only that of Bloody Jeffreys
remains.
Similarly, if his master shall be pleased to honor General Baron von Bissing with the iron cross for his action in the case of Miss Cavell, as the Kaiser honored the Captain of the submarine which destroyed the Lusitania—and what order could be more appropriate in both cases than the cross, which recalls how another innocent victim of judicial tyranny was sacrificed? then even the Order of the Iron Cross will not save von Bissing from lasting obloquy. I do not question that he acted according to his lights and shared with Dr. Albert Zimmermann great surprise
that