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Miscellaneous statements. [1] (1941-1944)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605110 and id is 1 raw text is: 5-8-44 Statement of William Draper Lewis Director, The American Law Institute In the summer of 1942 the American Law Institute appointed a committee of advisers representing the principle? -cultures of the world to ascertain how far such a committee could unite in a statement of essential human rights. At the tize of their appointment the Institute felt it might be possible for it to draft an International Bill of Rights, using the report of the committee as a basis. The foreigners acting as members of the committee were liberal representatives of the r respective cultures in the sense that they were opposed to Nazi philosophy. Within this limitation many of those appointed would be classed as conservatives and none were communists; probably not even Kenneth Durant, the head of Tass in the United tates, who was appointed to give the comrittee the benefit of his intimate knowledge of Soviet thought, Those -who were United States citizens were selected to represent a cross-section, beik as to age and opinion, of the legal profession in the United States. The group appointed sub-committees and held many meetings. Their statemeit of Essential Human Rights is agreed to by all the members, except Mr. Warren A. Searey, Professor of Law at Harvard, who dissents on all the rights stated after Article 10. e-xczpt Article 17. These articles, he believes, express desirable things but not fundamental rights in the sense of the first ten articles. On the other hand, the majority of the foreign representatives on the committee would not have joined in the statement unless these rights were included. On consideration of the report, the members of the Council of the Institute came to the conclusion that any attempt on the part of the Institute to usefully draft under euxisting conditions a suggested International Bill of Rights and recommend it for general adoption by nations, and possibly by any international organizatio, would result D -1-

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