Putin's War and International Law
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'What d'Ll We Do?'
On leave from his position as a justice of the united states supreme court, in the spring of 19 forty five, he was, i think, appointed by roosevelt and work for truman. The first job he has is to help draft what came to be the charter and the statute of nermberg. He faced a problem because there really was only one relevant international crime well established, and that was war crimes. And so he turned to various characters in washington, largely to begin with, and then abroad. They added, eventually, with the british, the french and the soviets, three new international crimes: crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression.
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