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Political and Legal Organizations: Council of Foreign Ministers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The Conference of Foreign Ministers was established by the Potsdam Declaration “to continue the necessary proparatory work for the peace settlements.” During the period under review it held three sessions, the first in London from September 11 to October 2, 1945, the second in Paris in two meetings from April 25 to May 16 and from June to July 12, and the third in New York from November 4 to December 6, 1946.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities VI. War and Transitational Organizations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1947

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References

1 Department of State, Bulletin, XIII, p. 153.

2 Two brief sessions of the Council during the Paris Peace Conference to speed up the agends are not considered here.

3 Communiqués of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Department of State, Bulletin, XIII, p. 564–5.

4 See text of speech by Mr. Bevin, October 9, 1945, N. Y. Times, October 10, 1945.

5 N. Y. Times, September 15, 1945.

6 Ibid., September 20, 1945.

7 Department of State, Bulletin, XIII, p. 565.

8 N. Y. Times, April 2, 1946.

9 Ibid., February 1 and 6, 1946.

10 N. Y. Times, May 1, 1946.

11 N. Y. Times, May 1, 1946.

12 Ibid., May 5, 1946.

13 Department of State, Bulletin, XIII, p. 815.

14 N. Y. Times, May 17, 1946.

15 N. Y. Times, June 30, 1946.

16 See Report on First Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, by James F. Byrnes, Department of State Publication 2398; text of radio speech by John F. Dulles on London Meeting, N. Y. Times, Oct. 7, 1945; Report of Foreign Secretary Bevin to the House of Commons, N. Y. Times, Oct. 10, 1945; Report to the Congress on Paris Meeting of Conference of Foreign Ministers by Arthur H. Vandenburg, N. Y. Times, May 22, 1946; Address by James F. Byrnes on Paris Meetings, May 20, 1946, Department of State, Bulletin, XIV, p. 950; Statement of the, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (Molotov), May 27, 1946, Information Bulletin, Embassy of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Washington, May, 1946; Statement of Soviet Foreign Minister (Molotov) on January, N. Y. Times, July 11, 1946; Radio Address by James F. Byrnes, July 15, 1946, Department of State, Bulletin, XV, p. 167; and Statement of Arthur H. Vandenburg, July 16, 1946, Congressional Record, July 16, 1946, p. 1973; for references to the recommendations of the Council of Foreign Ministers, see Bibliography.

17 N. Y. Times, November 4, 1946.

18 From information furnished by the Department of State.

19 “Agreement for the Establishment of an International Military Tribunal,” Trial of war Criminals, Department of State Publication 2420, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1945, pp. 13–15.

20 “Charter of the International Military Tribunal,” Ibid., p. 15–21.

21 Jackson Robert H. “The Law Under Which Nazi Organizations are Accused of Being Criminal,” Temple Law Quarterly, XIX, No. 4, p. 387.

22 “Indictment Number I,” Trial of War Criminals, Department of State Publication 2420, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1945, p. 23–4.

23 New York Times, October 1, 1946, p. 12.

24 New York Times, October 16, 1946, p. 23.

25 New York Times, October 2, 1946, p. 20.

26 “Character of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East,” Trial of Japanese War Criminals, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1946, pp. 39–44.

27 Ibid., p. 45–63.

28 New York Times, October 9, 1946, p. 16.

29 Moscow Meeting of Foreign Ministers, December 16–26, 1945, Department of State Publication 2448, 1946.

30 Department of State Bulletin, XIII, p. 728.

31 Ibid., p. 561.

32 Ibid., p. 967.

33 From information supplied by the Secretary General.

34 Far Eastern Commission, Press Release April 25, 1943.

35 Ibid., June 5, 1946.

36 Ibid., July 2, 1946.

37 Ibid., July 18, 1946.

38 Ibid., August 20, 1946.

39 New York Times, April 2, 1946.