Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross GBE PC QC, known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal... (wikipedia)
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.