Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1944, General, Volume I

740.00116 P.W./6–944

The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (Hurst)⁸¹

Washington, August 18, 1944.

Sir: I thank you for your letter of June 9, 1944, regarding the decision of the United Nations War Crimes Commission to establish at Chungking a Far Eastern and Pacific Sub-Commission.

This Government has designated the American Ambassador in Chungking, the Honorable Clarence E. Gauss, to represent it on the Sub-Commission.⁸² He will be assisted by the Judge Advocate of the United States Armed Forces in China-Burma-India. It has not yet been decided whether or not he will have a naval assistant.

This Government understands that the Sub-Commission will be an agency of the War Crimes Commission in London and will receive instructions from the Commission in London together with the necessary documentation.

Accept [etc.]

Cordell Hull

81. Transmitted to the American Representative on the United Nations War Crimes Commission in instruction 21, August 18, 1944, for delivery to Sir Cecil Hurst.
82. Mr. George Atcheson, Jr., the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at Chungking, served as American representative from November 13, 1944, until December 14, 1944, when the new Ambassador, General Patrick Hurley, was designated to represent the Government on the Sub-Commission. For list of other Americans on the Sub-Commission, see History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission, p. 130.