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16 Fed. Juror 1 (1945)

handle is hein.journals/fjbfgj16 and id is 1 raw text is: gr f V 1 s March, 1945 Puba tinob h eerlGadJr Assoito fo h 5oter )itito Ne w ok Vl X I o DEMOCRACY AT WAR It is heartening to note that in the midst of the most devastating war in history, the processes of Democracy in this country have continued to function in an inspiring manner. Despite the war, we have held a critical presidential election. Despite the war, our courts have continued to administer justice fairly and impar- tially even in cases of treason. Despite the war, we have guarded our freedom of speech, even in such areas as labor relations and war production. Despite the war, administration of justice has progressed and improved. Of special interest to those of us who have participated as grand jurors in the operation of our Federal Courts is the great progress made in the legal pro- cedure affecting the prosecution of criminal cases in the Federal Courts. For the first time in the history of the United States, a uniform code of criminal procedure has been formulated which will govern all Federal criminal actions. The United States Supreme Court took the initiative in 1941 and appointed an advisory com- mittee delegated to assist the Court in the preparation of uniform rules of criminal procedure. This advisory committee composed of distinguished lawyers and judges worked competently and diligently for approximately 3 years and finally completed and presented to the Supreme Court, last December, a final draft of the Fcderal Rules of Criminal Procedure. This draft, with a few modifications, has be-n approved by the Supreme Court, and the new rules have now been sub. mitted to Congress for adoption at the present session. At the beginning of the war, there were persons, not only in enemy countries (who doas not recall with amusement the bombast of Hitler and Goebbels who proclaimed that America was too soft and decrepit a Democracy to be of any importance as a military factor), but persons in our country also, who asserted that an intensive war could not be waged by us without some curtailment of our freedoms of speech, assembly and political activity. May we not be proud then, in reviewing the past year at the beginning of this New Year, of the fact that, both on the battlefield and on the home front our country has given the lie in the most forceful manner possible to all those who would impugn the sincerity and intensity with which we Americans love our institutions of Democracy, as operating facts, not merely as paper theories? THE FEDERAL JUROR ...........................................

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