The overwhelming vote in the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association calling for the ratification of the United Nations Convention on Genocide has been hailed by Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R.NY) as a change in the association’s position “of great significance.” Addressing the Senate Thursday on the association’s action in Philadelphia Feb, 17, Javits observed that the treaty, adopted by the UN General Assembly 27 years ago and sent to member nations for ratification of the Convention to make genocide an international crimes, was conceived in ashes of the Nazi Holocaust.” Seventy-eight nations have ratified the treaty, but not the U.S. A filibuster ended an attempt to consider it in the Senate last year.
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