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security,
the Third Committee unanimously agreed
as to its great moral and educative
value."
Then
he asked the Assembly to adopt the draft
resolution, and I will read simply the terms of
the resolution, which shows what so many
nations, including Germany, put forward at that
time:
"The
Assembly, recognizing the solidarity
which unites the community of nations,
being inspired by a firm desire for the
maintenance of general peace, being
convinced that a war of aggression can
never serve as a means of settling
international disputes, and is in
consequence an international crime;
considering that a solemn renunciation
of all wars of aggression would tend to
create an atmosphere of general
confidence calculated to facilitate the
progress of the work undertaken . . .
with a view to disarmament:
"Declares:
1. That all wars of aggression are and
shall always be prohibited: 2. That
every pacific means must be employed to
settle disputes of every description,
which may arise between states.
"The
Assembly declares that the states,
members of the League, are under an
obligation to conform to these
principles."
After a solemn vote taken in the form of roll
call the President announced-which you will see
at the end of the extract:
"All
the delegations having pronounced in
favor of the declaration submitted by
the Third Committee, I declare it
unanimously adopted."
The
last general treaty which I have to place before
the Tribunal is the Kellogg-Briand Pact. The
Pact of Paris of 1928, which my learned friend,
the Attorney General, in opening this part of
the case read in extenso and commented
on fully, I hand in as Exhibit GB 18 — the
British Document TC-19, which is a copy of that
pact. I did not intend, unless the Tribunal
desired otherwise, that I should, read it again,
as the Attorney General yesterday read it in
full, but of course I am at the service of the
Tribunal and therefore I leave that document
before the Tribunal in that way.
Now
all that remains for me to do is to place before
the Tribunal certain documents which Mr.
Alderman mentioned in the course of his address,
and left to me. I am afraid that I haven't
placed them in a special order, because they
don't really relate to the treaties I have dealt
with, but to Mr. Alderman's argument. The first
of these I hand in as Exhibit GB-19. It is
British Document TC-26, and comes just after
that resolution of the League of Nations to
which the Tribunal had just been giving
attention — TC-26. It is the assurance
contained in Hitler's speech on 21 May 1935, and
it is very short, and unless the Tribunal has it
in mind from Mr. Alderman's speech, I will read
it again; I am not sure of his reading it: