3. The Commission shall be assisted by an Executive Secretary, who shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as the Commission may determine, and by such staff as may be required. This staff shall be composed so far as possible of officials appointed for this purpose by the participating governments on the invitation of the Executive Secretary. 4. The Commission shall: (a) Convoke the General Assembly in its first session; (b) Prepare the provisional agenda for the first sessions of the principal organs of the Organization, and prepare documents and recommendations relating to all matters on these agenda; (c) Formulate recommendations concerning the possible transfer of certain functions, activities, and assets of the League of Nations which it may be considered desirable for the new Organization to take over on terms to be arranged; (d) Examine the problems involved in the establishment of the relationship between specialized intergovernmental organizations and agencies and the Organization; (e) Issue invitations for the nominations of candidates for the International Court of Justice in accordance with the provisions of the Statute of the Court; (f) Prepare recommendations concerning arrangements for the Secretariat of the Organization; and (g) Make studies and prepare recommendations concerning the location of the permanent headquarters of the Organization. 5. The expenses incurred by the Commission and the expenses incidental to the convening of the first meeting of the General Assembly shall be met by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or, if the Commission so requests, shared by other governments. All such advances from governments shall be deductible from their first contributions to the Organization. 6. The seat of the Commission shall be located in London. The Commission shall hold its first meeting in San Francisco immediately after the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization. The Executive Committee shall call the Commission into session again as soon as possible after the Charter of the Organization comes into effect and whenever subsequently it considers such a session desirable. 7. The Commission shall cease to exist upon the election of the SecretaryGeneral of the Organization, at which time its property and records shall be transferred to the Organization. 8. The Government of the United States of America shall be the temporary depositary and shall have custody of the original document embodying these interim arrangements in the five languages in which it is signed. Duly certified copies thereof shall be transmitted to the governments of the signatory states. The Government of the United States of America shall transfer the original to the Executive Secretary on his appointment. 9. This document shall be effective as from this date, and shall remain open for signature by the states entitled to be the original Members of the United Nations until the Commission is dissolved in accordance with paragraph 7. IN FAITH WHEREOF, the undersigned representatives having been duly authorized for that purpose, sign this document in the English, French, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish languages, all texts being of equal authenticity. DONE at the city of San Francisco, this twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five. Edward R. Stettininius, Jr., Secretary of State; Chairman Cordell Hull, Senior Adviser Tom Connally, United States Senate Arthur H. Vandenberg, United States Senate Sol Bloom, House of Representatives Charles A. Eaton, House of Representatives Commander Harold E. Stassen, U. S. N. R. Department of State ADVISERS James Clement Dunn, Assistant Secretary of State Green H. Hackworth, Legal Adviser Leo Pasvolsky, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for International Organization and Security Affairs Isaiah Bowman, Special Adviser to the Secretary of State Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Special Adviser to the Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Charles W. Taussig, Chairman, United States Section, Anglo-American Avra M. Warren, Director, Office of American Republic Affairs John D. Hickerson, Deputy Director, Office of European Affairs Harley A. Notter, Adviser, Office of Special Political Affairs Leroy D. Stinebower, Deputy Director, Office of International Trade Policy Treasury Department Harry White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury War Department John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War Lieutenant General Stanley D. Embick, Joint Strategic Survey Committee Major General Muir S. Fairchild, Joint Strategic Survey Committee Major General R. L. Walsh, Special Assistant to the Commanding General, Army Air Forces Brigadier General Kenner Hertford, Chief of Pan American Group, Operations Division Department of Justice Charles Fahy, Solicitor General of the United States Navy Department Artemus Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn, Chairman, General Board Vice Admiral Russell Willson, Joint Strategic Survey Committee R. Keith Kane, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy Department of the Interior Abe Fortas, Under Secretary of the Interior Department of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Department of Commerce Frank A. Waring, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce Department of Labor Daniel W. Tracy, Assistant Secretary of Labor Foreign Economic Administration Oscar Cox, Deputy Administrator Bureau of the Budget Donald C. Stone, Deputy Director In addition, valuable assistance was rendered to the Delegation by the Honorable Pat McCarran, United States Senator from Nevada, and by the Honorable Louis C. Rabaut, Member of Congress from Michigan and the Honorable Karl Stefan, Member of Congress from Nebraska, who, at the instance of the Department of State, went to San Francisco to advise and consult with the Delegation with respect to certain fiscal problems in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the United Nations. ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF STATE ASSIGNED TO THE CONFERENCE Julius C. Holmes Archibald MacLeish Nelson A. Rockefeller OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION ATTACHÉ TO THE DELEGATION Arthur Sweetser, Deputy Director, Office of War Information SPECIAL ASSISTANTS TO THE CHAIRMAN Robert J. Lynch, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State G. Hayden Raynor, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State Charles W. Yost, Executive Secretary, Secretary of State's Staff Committee and Coordinating Committee John D. East, Special Consultant Silliman Evans Adlai Stevenson, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State Mrs. Nancy Davis, Assistant to Mr. Yost; Acting Information Officer, Office of Assistant Secretary of State Clayton ASSISTANTS TO THE CHAIRMAN Wilder Foote, Assistant to the Secretary of State Frank Duvall, Watch Officer, Office of the Secretary of State SECRETARY GENERAL Durward V. Sandifer, Chief, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Benjamin Gerig, Deputy; Chief, Division of Dependent Area Affairs; Associate Chief, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State SPECIAL ASSISTANTS TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL Miss Dorothy Fosdick, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Edward G. Miller, Jr., Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Acheson Europe POLITICAL AND LIAISON OFFICERS Theodore C. Achilles, Chief, Division of British Commonwealth Affairs, Department of State Charles E. Bohlen, Assistant to the Secretary and White House Liaison Officer, Department of State Hugh S. Cumming, Jr., Chief, Division of Northern European Affairs, Department of State Llewellyn E. Thompson, Acting Chief, Division of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State Woodruff Wallner, Administrative Assistant, Division of Western European Affairs, Department of State Far East Joseph W. Ballantine, Director, Office of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State John Carter Vincent, Chief, Division of Chinese Affairs, Department of State Edwin Stanton, Office of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State Near East and Africa George V, Allen, Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs, Department of State Paul H. Alling, Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs, Department of State Henry S. Villard, Chief, Division of African Affairs, Department of State Foy D. Kohler, Assistant Chief, Division of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State Latin America 1 John E. Lockwood, Deputy Director, Office of American Republic Affairs, Department of State John M. Cabot, Chief, Division of Caribbean and Central American Affairs Department of State. H. Clinton Reed, Department of State. John McClintock, Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Rockefeller Lt. Atwood Collins III, Assistant to Mr. Avra M. Warren Lt. George S. Knight, Assistant to Mr. Avra M. Warren CHIEF TECHNICAL EXPERTS Durward V. Sandifer, Chief, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Benjamin Gerig, Chief, Division of Dependent Arca Affairs; Associate Chief, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State. Joseph E. Johnson, Acting Chief, Division of International Security Affairs, Department of State TECHNICAL EXPERTS Robert W. Hartley, Office of the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Miss Marjorie M. Whiteman, Assistant Legal Adviser, Department of State Carlton Savage, Assistant to the Secretary of State Bryn J. Hovde, Chief, Division of Cultural Cooperation, Department of State Otis E. Mulliken, Chief, Division of International Labor, Social and Health Affairs, Department of State Donald C. Blaisdell, Associate Chief, Division of International Security Affairs, Department of State Ralph Bunche, Associate Chief, Division of Dependent Area Affairs, Department of State Walter M. Kotschnig, Associate Chief, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Lawrence Preuss, Associate Chief, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State William Sanders, Associate Chief, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State John Parke Young, Adviser on Foreign Investment, Division of Foreign Economic Development, Department of State Andrew W. Cordier, Division of International Security Affairs, Department of State Clyde Eagleton, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Harry N. Howard, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Henry Reiff, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State John D. Tomlinson, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State J. Wesley Adams, Jr., Division of International Security Affairs, Department of State Mrs. Esther Brunauer, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Edward H. Buehrig, Division of International Security Affairs, Department of State Miss Dorothy Fosdick, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Miss Marcia Maylott, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Mrs. Alice M. McDiarmid, Division of International Organization Affairs, Department of State Warren Roberts, Division of International Security Affairs, Department of State Lieutenant Bernard Brodie, U. S. N. R., Division of International Security Affairs, Department of State Commodore T. P. Jeter, U. S. N., Joint Post-War Committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff Colonel Shaler Ladd, U. S. M. C. Colonel C. H. Bonesteel, III, War Department General Staff Colonel P. M. Hamilton, Joint Post-War Committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff Lieutenant Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., U. S. N. R., with Joint Strategic Survey |