Office of the Historian

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The Secretary of State to the Legal Adviser (Hackworth)

Washington, April 3, 1945.

My Dear Mr. Hackworth; I take pleasure in designating you as Representative of the United States on the Committee of Jurists which is to meet at Washington on April 9, 1945 to formulate, pursuant to Chapter VII of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, a statute for the proposed international court of justice.91

You will be assisted by one or two advisers, to be designated.92

Since the statute of the international court of justice is to become a part of the Charter of the United Nations, you are authorized to consider with the Committee not only the statute but also such other matters as are deemed necessary to determine the position and jurisdiction of the court within the proposed Organization.

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You are directed to report to me and to the members of the American Delegation to the United Nations Conference on the developments and results of the Committee’s work.

Sincerely yours,

Edward R. Stetttinius, Jr.
  1. For press releases announcing the meeting and plans for the opening session, see Department of State Bulletin, April 8, 1945, p. 643; for addresses at the first plenary session, see ibid., April 15, 1945, pp. 672–674.↩
  2. For a list of Governments and their respective representatives and advisers, see The International Court of Justice, pp. 165–167.↩