Newspaper articles written by John F. Kennedy

Newspaper articles written by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy for Hearst newspapers on the 1945 United Nations Conference in San Francisco, California.

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niceman Jorld Court Res Test for Envo e (Lt. John F. Kennedy, recently retired PT boat South Pacific and son of Former Ambassador Jos neduris covering the San Francisco conference from an point of view) for the New York Journal-A" re the war he wrote the best seller Why England S By LT. JOHN F. KENNEDY SAN FRANCISCO, May. 1 This conference from may have appeared so far like an international f e with Molotov carrying the ball while Stettinius e the delegates tried to tackle him all over the field. ell, that part's least, the old one. borarily-ane tomorrow to get at the sched- real they are In addition, they took legal matters and those tl rk of couldn't decide upon wer confer- and they agreed to take e. again for final consIderati his will For the first seven day sist of Francisco there has been ng to jockeying for position if ve a discussion has bech delay niber of now that the smoke has re or they begin discussions tor tech- There are a number al prob- problems besides the wor S. They to be discussed, of course ctacular way in which (they have true- to take up the problem it was court is solve Nearly all the delegates se prob- experts in a particular fi s' that as labor, foreign policy dele- LT. JOBN F. KENNEDY These delegates are divi es came to San Francisco. different commissions t ne of these problems deals with the problems they are $ at part a world court should in. As we were discus y in any world organization. I legal end-let's look at pose to discuss it here-not be- WHAT THEY DISCUSS se it is necessarily the most All the legal experts portant problém before the con- ence-but because it is a prob- 46 United Nations are to 1 typical of many others that a body known as a con These :experts are ther about to be discussed, Tere is the way they plan to Into two different co: one committee to study adle it: n The problem of setting up a court is, to be set up wh :1d court is, of course, not new. be, who will pick the jud has long, been hoped that some connection it will have / the world would have a court other departments' of th deal with disputes between na- organization and other ns instead of disputes between etc. The other committee lividuals. tup legal questions, suc kind to be brought be ID THE GROUNDWORK. court, and how the co "his latest plan for a world court enforce its decisions. c s first proposed at Dumbarton When these committ ks when they decided that the finished their work they rld organization they planned mit any remaining pro set up must have a court to de- the commission. e any legalmatters that might The commission will t! ne up. In April of this year the Big making its decision, su re met In Washington to make final proposals for the W and the legal code that ne definite proposals. to the whole conferer One of the blg questions they cussed was whether the world wilf vote upon them. irt should be a carry-over from That, very briefly, As e world court set up after the conference plans to tac t war or whether it should be a) its many problems. It's w one. They decided that be- facular-it's perhaps a see the old one had a good rec=) But upon how the