Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, The Far East, Volume VIII

740.00116 PW/1–1846: Telegram

The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State

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Moscow, January 18, 1946—5 p.m.
[Received January 18—1:18 p.m.]

173. ReDeptel 36, January 8. Note dated January 18 from Foreign Office states:

“Soviet Govt has appointed to International Military Tribunal, in Tokyo for the trial of the chief Jap war criminals Director of Juridical Sciences, Minister S. A. Golunsky as [associate] prosecutor for the Soviet Union and Major General of Justice I. M. Zaryanov as a judicial member of the military collegium of the supreme court of the USSR.⁹⁹ They will depart with their staff from Moscow for Tokyo in next few days.”

Kennan

99. Apparently garbled; Zaryanov was nominated as judge for the Tribunal.