Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Prologue and introduction
- 1 Background and early years, 1897–1919
- 2 Vienna: research, engagement and marriage, 1919–1923
- 3 England and the London School of Economics, 1923–1937
- 4 Cambridge, 1937–1939: the Whewell Chair
- 5 The war years, Part I: September 1939–January 1941
- 6 The war years, Part II: February 1941–March 1942
- 7 The war years, Part III: April 1942–December 1944
- 8 Human rights
- 9 The years of practice, 1945–1950
- 10 1950–1954
- 11 The International Court of Justice, 1955–1960
- Epilogue: the man
- Appendix 1 The published writings of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 2 Biographical and academic writings on Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 3 Obituaries of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 4 Chronology of significant events in the life of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Index
6 - The war years, Part II: February 1941–March 1942
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Prologue and introduction
- 1 Background and early years, 1897–1919
- 2 Vienna: research, engagement and marriage, 1919–1923
- 3 England and the London School of Economics, 1923–1937
- 4 Cambridge, 1937–1939: the Whewell Chair
- 5 The war years, Part I: September 1939–January 1941
- 6 The war years, Part II: February 1941–March 1942
- 7 The war years, Part III: April 1942–December 1944
- 8 Human rights
- 9 The years of practice, 1945–1950
- 10 1950–1954
- 11 The International Court of Justice, 1955–1960
- Epilogue: the man
- Appendix 1 The published writings of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 2 Biographical and academic writings on Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 3 Obituaries of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 4 Chronology of significant events in the life of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Index
Summary
One of Hersch's first tasks after his return was to prepare a lengthy report to the Foreign Office on his US visit, focusing principally on his contact with the US authorities and his discussions with international lawyers. He also appended his report to the Carnegie Endowment.
Hersch wrote to Sir Stephen Gaselee at the Foreign Office on 5 February 1941:
When, last September, I accepted the invitation to visit the United States, I was, to a large extent, guided by your advice. In fact, your letter to the Vice-Chancellor left me with no doubt that it was my duty to go. This being so, perhaps you will not regard it as inappropriate if I submit through you this report on some aspects of my visit which the authorities may find of interest.
In accepting the invitation I had three objects in mind:
(1) I thought that I ought to avail myself of the opportunity of influencing opinion by lecturing on current topics of international law and relations and of establishing other kinds of contact with university faculties, law schools, foreign policy groups, associations of lawyers, and so on, especially in the part of the United States in which such contact appeared to me to be particularly necessary, namely, in the Middle West.
(2) I believed that I ought to try to use the opportunity of having conversations with teachers of international law in the leading universities in the United States. For various reasons these have tended in recent years to assume a somewhat pronounced isolationist attitude, and it appeared to me that their standing justified an attempt to influence their attitude. […]
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- The Life of Hersch Lauterpacht , pp. 141 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010