The United Nations Subcommission on Freedom of Information and the Press, which is meeting here now, today considered measures against the recurrence and revival of fascist and racist propaganda. The body had in front of it a resolution calling for “the promotion of the dissemination of true information to counteract Nazi, fascist and other propaganda of aggression or of racial, national and religious discriminations.”
First steps to incorporate the Nuremberg decisions against war crimes into international law have been completed by the United Nations International Law Commission. The15-man body of world jurists has made a rough draft of a code of offenses against the peace and security of mankind.
The Commission also marked out a blueprint for the establishment of an international judicial court with powers to try persons charged with the crime of genocide and other crimes which the Nazis introduced in the last war. Both drafts wore turned over for expansion to one-man committees who will report back to the commission in 1950.
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