=Providing for Representation of the United States in Preparing and
Prosecuting Charges of Atrocities and War Crimes Against the Leaders of
the European Axis Powers and Their Principal Agents and
Accessories=
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President and as Commander in
Chief of the Army and Navy, under the Constitution and statutes of the
United States, it is ordered as follows:
1. Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson is hereby designated to act as
the Representative of the United States and as its Chief of Counsel in
preparing and prosecuting charges of atrocities and war crimes against
such of the leaders of the European Axis powers and their principal
agents and accessories as the United States may agree with any of the
United Nations to bring to trial before an international military
tribunal. He shall serve without additional compensation but shall
receive such allowance for expenses as may be authorized by the
President.
2. The Representative named herein is authorized to select and recommend
to the President or to the head of any executive department, independent
establishment, or other federal agency necessary personnel to assist in
the performance of his duties hereunder. The head of each executive
department, independent establishment, and other federal agency is
hereby authorized to assist the Representative named herein in the
performance of his duties hereunder and to employ such personnel and
make such expenditures, within the limits of appropriations now or
hereafter available for the purpose, as the Representative named herein
may deem necessary to accomplish the purposes of this order, and may
make available, assign, or detail for duty with the Representative named
herein such members of the armed forces and other personnel as may be
requested for such purposes.
3. The Representative named herein is authorized to cooperate with, and
receive the assistance of, any foreign Government to the extent deemed
necessary by him to accomplish the purposes of this order.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
_May 2, 1945_.
(F. R. Doc. 45-7256; Filed, May 3, 1945; 10:57 a. m.)
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