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Jessup served as assistant secretary-general of the UNRRA conference in 1943 and the
Bretton Woods Conference in 1944. He was a member of the American delegation to the
San Francisco conference in 1945. He was also the United States representative on the
fifteen-man United Nations committee of jurists that had drafted the World Court statute.
Continuing as a technical expert and advisor to various important UN commissions,
Jessup prepared the State Department's infamous "White Paper" on China. Written at the
very time when the Communists were overrunning the mainland of China, this report
lavishly praised the Reds and condemned the anti-Communist Nationalist forces. Jessup
later became one of the early advocates for the admission of Red China to the United
Nations.
President Truman was so impressed by this record that he appointed Jessup as United
States delegate to the United Nations in 1951. When the appointment came before the
Senate, however, it was not approved because of Jessup's pro-Communist record. At the
United Nations, Soviet delegate Vyshinsky reacted by praising Jessup during a meeting of
the General Assembly’s political committee. Vyshinsky said he bad "learned with dismay"
the Senate's decision." 41 Equally dismayed, of course, was President Truman who
proceeded to circumvent the Senate action by assigning Jessup to the United Nations on
an "interim appointment." 42
Shortly after the Eisenhower administration came in on the promise of cleaning the United
States security risks out of the United Nations, the State Department approved the
appointment of Philip Jessup as our candidate for the UN World Court--an infinitely more
important position than the one denied him by the Senate. This time, however, neither
Congress nor the Senate had any voice in the selection.
Even though each country is allowed to nominate two of its own nationals and two from
other countries, the United States elected to nominate three foreigners with Philip Jessup
as the only American--making it very clear to all that he was the man!
In the final voting, Jessup was elected by an overwhelming majority. With both the United
States and the USSR voting for him, how could he miss?
NOTES
1. Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments, SISS report (July 30, 1953), pp.
8-10.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Time (April 16, 1945), international section.
5. Insignia, conference issue (1801 Broadway, San Diego, Calif., 1945), vol. 6, no. 1, P.
67.
6. "Russia Keeps Up Pressure on Withdrawal," London Daily Telegraph (August 23,
1958). As quoted by Mark Ewell, Manacles for Mankind (London, Britons Publishing
Company, 1960), p. 50.
7. Statement by Senator Edwin Mechem, a former FBI agent assigned to cover Alger Hiss
and other Russian spies, Chicago Tribune (May 26, 1963), sec. 1, p. 4.