Interest of the United States in measures for the protection and salvage of artistic and historic monuments in war areas ¹

^1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. ii, pp. 1031–1067. For further information on this subject, see Report of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1946); this report is generally known as the Roberts Commission Report, since the Chairman of the Commission was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Owen J. Roberts. See also the statement by Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton made before the Subcommittee on War Mobilization of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs on June 25, reprinted in Department of State Bulletin, July 1, 1945, p. 29.