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DECLASSIFIED
Sec.
1972
April 23, 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: The Conference of the Committee of
Jurists.
As proposed at Dumbarton Oaks and confirmed
at Yalta, a Committee of Jurists representative
of 44 nations met in Washington from April 9 thru
20 to develop recommendations to present to the
San Francisco Conference on the statute of the
new Court.
The Committee took as a basis for its work
the present statute of the Permanent Court of
International Justice and made many changes, the
more important of which are listed below.
Briefly the court should be composed of
fifteen judges, as is the present court; the judges
to hold office for nine-year periods, one-third
retiring every three years.
It is to have jurisdiction over such cases
as parties to the statute may agree to present to
it. There is a strong feeling on the part of some
of the representatives at the meeting of the Com-
mittee of Jurists that the Court should have com-
pulsory jurisdiction (that any government should
have the right to bring a case before the Court
against any other government without the necessity
for special agreements). This would constitute a
departure from the present statute under which it
is made optional with the parties to the statute of
the Court to accept compulsory jurisdiction generally
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