740.00.116 EW/9–1145: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Winant )91
7828. The President will announce tomorrow morning, September 12th, the appointment of Francis Biddle of Philadelphia as United [Page 1169] States Judge on the International Military Tribunal to be established for the trial and punishment of major war criminals of the European Axis, and Judge John J. Parker, of Charlotte, North Carolina, as alternate. It is of course well known that Mr. Biddle recently retired as Attorney General. Judge Parker is the senior judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Please promptly notify the Foreign Office of these appointments and express the hope that the British Government will find it possible to appoint its judge and alternate in the very near future in order that there may be no unnecessary delay in establishing the Tribunal.
- The same, mutatis mutandis, to Paris and Moscow, September 11, as telegrams 4282 and 1993, respectively.↩