London International Assembly organization
also: London Assembly, the group
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Claims (6)
London International Assembly founded
United Nations War Crimes Commission documented
“They were identified as the London International Assembly, a 29-member offshoot of the old League of Nations. Little is remembered of the London Assembly today, but in about a year's time, during 1942-43, the group sketched out much of the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 35:20
Marcel de Beer member_of
London International Assembly documented
“Many of the innovations in international law and even in international affairs that were formalized at Nuremberg were the first fully articulated by this London group. A number of its more prominent members were members of the Cambridge gro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 35:50
René Cassin member_of
London International Assembly documented
“the legal advisor to the French provisional government, René Cassin, C-A-S-S-I-N, and Minister of Justice, Victor Bolson of Luxembourg. The U.S. members was one of the most distinguished criminologists of his generation, Harvard University,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 36:15
Victor Bolson member_of
London International Assembly documented
“the legal advisor to the French provisional government, René Cassin, C-A-S-S-I-N, and Minister of Justice, Victor Bolson of Luxembourg. The U.S. members was one of the most distinguished criminologists of his generation, Harvard University,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 36:15
Sheldon Glueck member_of
London International Assembly documented
“the legal advisor to the French provisional government, René Cassin, C-A-S-S-I-N, and Minister of Justice, Victor Bolson of Luxembourg. The U.S. members was one of the most distinguished criminologists of his generation, Harvard University,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 36:15
London International Assembly funded
Nuremberg trials documented
“Many of the innovations in international law and even in international affairs that were formalized at Nuremberg were the first fully articulated by this London group. A number of its more prominent members were members of the Cambridge gro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 35:50
Mentions (13)
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offered his solution through the newspapers. The definition of international crimes should be re-articulated, he contended, to include all offenses against persons because of race, religion, or political belief, irrespective of the victim's…
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They could try only those crimes that had been a direct relationship to the military and not civilians. Thus, the Nazi systematic persecution of Jews and others trapped inside of Axis territories appeared to be legal in their opinion. Meanw…
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They were identified as the London International Assembly, a 29-member offshoot of the old League of Nations. Little is remembered of the London Assembly today, but in about a year's time, during 1942-43, the group sketched out much of the …
▶ 35:50
Many of the innovations in international law and even in international affairs that were formalized at Nuremberg were the first fully articulated by this London group. A number of its more prominent members were members of the Cambridge gro…
▶ 36:15
the legal advisor to the French provisional government, René Cassin, C-A-S-S-I-N, and Minister of Justice, Victor Bolson of Luxembourg. The U.S. members was one of the most distinguished criminologists of his generation, Harvard University,…
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Was that too international a crime? For many people, the debates over these points might seem to be absurd technicalities when measured against the carnage that had been left. In time, the London International Assembly put together substant…
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was an international crime, specifically a violation of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, to which Germany and most of the Allies, though not the United States, had pledged not to wage war on one another. Next, the London Assembly came out f…
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that were outside the jurisdiction of national courts, but also cases involving crimes that had been legalized by the Nazis inside of Germany. This new court's proposed jurisdiction specifically included crimes against Jews and stateless pe…
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Coloring their crimes under a cloak of apparent legality should not help the Nazis escape justice. The assembly also helped pioneer the legal definition of what came to be known as crimes against humanity by advancing the controversial conc…
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for a head of state should be broadly interpreted. As some lawyers saw things, the field marshal of an army where war crimes had become routine practice could not be put on trial unless he personally ordered the soldiers to commit them. The…
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The group found that leaders were indeed responsible for the act their subordinates took on. Finally, there was a problem of transferring captured war criminals from one jurisdiction to another, commonly called extradition. The assembly agr…
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formal extradition process was so slow and cumbersome that it could not handle thousands of cases in an effort to prosecute Nazi war criminals would inevitably involve. Therefore, the assembly suggested ordinary extradition should be revers…
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The allied countries should formally agree to transfer accused war criminals to one another without the usual extradition hearing, while any peace treaty with the Axis powers should force them to turn over any suspects. The assembly's concl…