Think for one moment: These eight Nazi saboteurs landed on the coast of Florida and Long Island. They had with them $100.000 in cash. a large amount of dynamite. and blueprints of all our essential industries. maps of our important highways. our bridges. and our railroads. They intended to blow up and sabotage vital war plants. and yet under the present statute we practically stultified ourselves in the sense that we could inflict upon them if they had been tried in a civilian tribunal only 2 years imprisonment and an insignificant fine or try them for a possible violation of our immigration statutes. with also a comparative minor punishment. Because of this lack we tried them before a military tribunal without right to trial by jury. I cannot understand the solicitude of some Members for the rights of the accused when without the present statute. we compel a military trial without the timehonored right of jury trial.
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