Office of the Historian

740.00116 E.W./8–344

Document No. C.38, 26 July, 1944: Establishment of the Far Eastern and Pacific Sub-Commission68

July 26, 1944

Letter from the Chinese Ambassador to the Chairman of the Commission, Dated July 25, 1944

Dear Sir Cecil: I beg to inform you that the Chinese Government has appointed Dr. Wang Chung-hui, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and sometime Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice, as the Chinese representative on the Far Eastern and Pacific Sub-Commission of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. It will be glad to provide suitable quarters for the Sub-Commission, and wishes to assure this body of a cordial welcome to Chungking. It will also be pleased to call the organizing meeting of the Sub-Commission in due course.69

Yours sincerely,

V. K. Wellington Koo
  1. Transmitted to the Department by the American Representative on the United Nations War Crimes Commission in despatch 17273, August 3, 1944; received August 9.↩
  2. The organizing meeting was held on November 28, 1944; see despatch 3213, December 9, from Chungking, p. 1399.↩