Correspondence [manuscript]. 1945-1948.

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Correspondence [manuscript]. 1945-1948.

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Personal and official correspondence accumulated while President and Australian Member of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1945-1948, including correspondence about entertainment 1947. Correspondence concerning Lady Webb's authorisation to enter Japan, 1946-1947. Correspondence to Commander in Chief for the Allied Powers, 1946-1947. Correspondence with Dr Evatt, Minister for External Affairs and Attorney-General, 1946-1947.

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International Military Tribunal for the Far East

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Historical Note The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) was established by a special proclamation of General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) on January 19, 1946. MacArthur thus implemented the Potsdam Declaration of China, the United States, and the United Kingdom (July 26, 1945), as accepted by the Japanese signatories of the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, that war crimina...

Australia. War Crimes Commission

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Webb, William F. (William Flood), 1887-1972

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Jurist and President of the International Military War Crimes Tribunal for the Far East after World War II. From the description of Correspondence [manuscript]. 1945-1946. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225789154 Commissioned to inquired into the atrocities and breaches of the rules of warfare and later appointed Commissioner of the first Australian War Crimes Commission, 1944 and then the second, 1945. In 1946 he was appointed to the International Military Tribu...