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GRAD

Undergraduate
Library

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1990

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BUHR

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Publication 3080

International Organization and
(Regiman
Conference Series II, European
and British Commonwealth 1
Released February 1949

DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS
OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office
Washington 25, D. C. Price $1.75

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I have the honor to submit a record of negotiations which I conducted as Representative of the United States at the London Conference, held June 26 to August 8, 1945, at which representatives of the United Kingdom, the Provisional Government of France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States made formal statement of the principles of substantive law and agreed upon methods of procedure for the prosecution and trial of the major European war criminals.

Those who engage in future efforts to codify international law or conduct trials, hearings, or arbitrations on an international level may find the origins, evolution, and background of this agreement instructive. Students of comparative law, as well as the legal profession, will find both the conflicts and harmonies between legal systems disclosed by those negotiations of interest.

It has therefore seemed fitting to assemble and lay before you a comprehensive report, including not only the deliberations of the Conference but all preliminary negotiations, drafts, and documents necessary to an understanding of the initiation and development of the agreement of London and the annexed charter of the International Military Tribunal, without an understanding of which an appraisal of the Nürnberg trial would be difficult.

Very truly yours,

WASHINGTON, D.C.

December 15, 1947

ROBERT H. JACKSON

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

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