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recommendations bring into special prominence the importance of the
decisions which lie in the future.
Since your work is completed I accept as of today your
resignati on as United States Member of the International Military
Tribunal. You have been part of a judicial proceeding which has
blazed a new trail in international jurisprudence and may change the
course of history.
To your work you brought experience, great learning, a
judicial temperament and a prodigious capacity for work. You have
earned my thanks and the thanks of the Nation for this great service.
Very sincerely yours,
(Sgd) HARRY S. TRUMAN
REATIONAL
to ARCHIVES AN SERVICE
Honorable Francis Biddle,
United States Member,
The International Military Tribunal,
Washington, D. C.
wdh-cm
env. addressed to Judge Biddle at: 1669 3lst St., N. W., Wash., D.C.
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