be free to make their own rules, including changes which might be desirable in the number and the work of the technical committees, and there shall be no restriction on the scope of their discussions. The Steering Committee may from time to time assign duties to the commissions in addition to those mentioned. COMMISSION I. GENERAL PROVISIONS Functions: To consider and recommend Conference action upon draft proposals submitted to it by its technical committees and upon other matters relating to its field. Technical Committee 1 Preamble, Purposes, and Principles Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission I draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in Chapters I and II of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Conference. Technical Committee 2 Membership, Amendment, and Secretariat Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission I draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in Chapters III, IV, X, and XI of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Conference. COMMISSION II. GENERAL ASSEMBLY Functions: To consider and recommend Conference action upon draft proposals submitted to it by its technical committees and upon other matters relating to its field. Technical Committee 1 Structure and Procedures Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission II draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in Chapter V of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals on structure and procedures (Sections A, C, D, and the pertinent paragraphs of Section B), and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Conference. Technical Committee 2 Political and Security Functions Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission II draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in Chapter V of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals on political and security functions (especially Section B), and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Conference. 23 Technical Committee 3 Economic and Social Cooperation Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission II draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in the pertinent paragraphs of Chapter V and in Chapter IX of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Conference. Technical Committee 4 Trusteeship System Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission II, and to Commission III as necessary, draft provisions on principles and mechanism of a system of international trusteeship for such dependent territories as may by subsequent agreement be placed thereunder. COMMISSION III. SECURITY COUNCIL Functions: To consider and recommend Conference action upon draft proposals submitted to it by its Technical Committees and upon other matters relating to its field. Technical Committee 1 Structure and Procedures Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission III draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in Chapter VI of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals on structure and procedures (Sections A, C, D, and the pertinent paragraphs of Section B), and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Conference. Technical Committee 2 Peaceful Settlement Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission III draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in Chapter VIII, Section A, of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Conference. Technical Committee 3 Enforcement Arrangements Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission III draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in Chapter VIII, Section B, and Chapter XII, of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Confer ence. Technical Committee 4 Regional Arrangements Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission III draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in Chapter VIII, Section C, of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Conference. COMMISSION IV. JUDICIAL ORGANIZATION Functions: To consider and recommend Conference action upon draft proposals submitted to it by its technical committees and upon other matters relating to its field. Technical Committee 1 International Court of Justice Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission IV draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in Chapter VII, of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, and to the comments and suggestions relevant thereto submitted by the governments participating in the Conference. Technical Committee 2 Legal Problems Functions: To prepare and recommend to Commission IV draft provisions for the Charter of the United Nations relating to matters dealt with in connection with the functioning of the United Nations Organization, such as registration of treaties, treaty obligations inconsistent with the Charter, the juridical status of the Organization, and privileges and immunities of officials of the Organization. Presidents Officers of the Conference Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Secretary of State; Chairman of the Delegation of the United States of America T. V. Soong, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Acting President of the Executive Yuan; Chairman of the Delegation of China V. M. Molotov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs; Chairman of the Delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Chairman of the Delegation of the United Kingdom Secretary-General Alger Hiss, Director, Office of Special Political Affairs, Department of State GENERAL COMMITTEES Steering Committee Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., United States of America; Chairman Guillermo Belt Ramírez, Cuba; Rapporteur César Ameghino, Argentina Francis Michael Forde or Herbert Vere Evatt, Australia Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium Gustavo Chacón, Bolivia Pedro Leão Velloso, Brazil Kuzma V. Kiselev, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic W. L. Mackenzie King, Canada Joaquín Fernández, Chile T. V. Soong, China Alberto Lleras Camargo, Colombia Julio Acosta García, Costa Rica Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia Henrik Kauffmann, Denmark Manuel A. Peña Batlle, Dominican Republic Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Ecuador H. E. Abdel Hamid Pasha Badawi, Egypt Hector David Castro, El Salvador Bitwodded Makonnen Endalkachau, Ethiopia Georges Bidault, France John Sofianopoulos, Greece Guillermo Toriello, Guatemala Gérard E. Lescot, Haiti Julián R. Cáceres, Honduras Sir A. Ramaswami Mudaliar, India Mostafa Adle, Iran Arshad Al-Omari, Iraq Wadih Naim, Lebanon Joseph Bech, Luxembourg Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico Eelco N. van Kleffens, Netherlands Peter Fraser, New Zealand Mariano Argüello Vargas, Nicaragua Wilhelm Munthe Morgenstierne, Norway Roberto Jiménez, Panama Celso R. Velázquez, Paraguay Manuel C. Gallagher, Peru 665605-463 Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine Commonwealth Faris al-Khouri, Syria Hasan Saka, Turkey Dmitry Z. Manuilsky, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic V. M. Molotov, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Anthony Eden, United Kingdom José Serrato, Uruguay Caracciolo Parra Pérez, Venezuela Ivan Subasić, Yugoslavia Executive Officer: Charles F. Darlington Assistant Executive Officers: Elwood N. Thompson, Rowena Rommel, Executive Committee Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., United States of America; Chairman Herbert Vere Evatt, Australia Pedro Leão Velloso, Brazil Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico Eelco N. van Kleffens, Netherlands V. M. Molotov, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Anthony Eden, United Kingdom Ivan Subasić, Yugoslavia Executive Officer: Charles F. Darlington Assistant Executive Officers: Elwood N. Thompson, Rowena Rommel, E. R. Marlin Coordination Committee Leo Pasvolsky, United States of America; Chairman Alternate: James C. Dunn Herbert Vere Evatt, Australia Alternates: K. H. Bailey, Paul Hasluck Cyro de Freitas Valle, Brazil Alternate: Antonio Camillo de Oliveira N. A. Robertson, Canada Alternate: H. H. Wrong Joaquín Fernández, Chile Alternate: Marcial Mora Jan Papánek, Czechoslovakia Dr. Ali Akbar Siassi, Iran Alternate: Major General Ali Riazi Manuel Tello, Mexico Alternate: Alfonso García Robles Adrian Pelt, Netherlands Alternate: Father L. J. C. Beaufort A. A. Sobolev, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Alternate: S. A. Golunsky H. M. G. Jebb, United Kingdom Alternate: C. K. Webster Stojan Gavrilovic, Yugoslavia Alternate: Teodor Gjurgjevic Executive Officer: Charles F. Darlington Assistant Executive Officers: Elwood N. Thompson, Rowena Rommel, E. R. Marlin |