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6/6/45.
adequately identifying individual perpetrators of atrocities and crimes
makes it the more important that we proceed against the top officials
and organizations responsible for originating the criminal policies,
for only by so doing can there be just rotribution for many of the most
brutal acts.
II.
Over a month a.go the United States proposed to the United Kingdom,
Soviet Russia and France a specific plan, in writing, that these four
powers join in a protocol establishing an Internationel Military Tribunal,
defining the jurisdiction and powers of the tribunal, naming the gate-
gories of acts declared to be crimes, and describing those individuals
and organizations to be placed on trial. Negotiation of such an agreement
between the four powers is not yet completed.
In view of the immensity of our task, it did not seem wise to await
consummation of international arrangements before proceeding with prepa-
ration of the American case. Accordingly, I went to Paris, to American
Army Headquarters at Frankfort and Wiesbaden, and to London, for the
purpose of assembling, organizing, and instructing personnel from the
existing services and agencies and getting the different organizations
ARCHIVES ONATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE AND
E
coordinated and at work on the evidence. I uniformly met with eager
cooperation.
The custody and treatment of war criminals and suspects appeared
to require immediate attention. I asked the War Department to deny
those prisoners who are suspected war criminals the privileges which
would appertain to their rank if they were merely prisoners of war;
to assemble them at convenient and secure locations for interrogation
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