HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTION URGED ON EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY
(Rec. 11.50 STRASBOURG, Aug. 19 M. Pierre Henri Teitgen, a French Progressive Catholic Party representative, made an impassioned appeal to the European Assembly to conclude a convention on human rights. He said that he was in a Gestapo prison, and his father was interned at Buchenwald. He also proposed the institution of an international court, consisting of nine eminent lawyers, to ensure the preseravtion of human rights and freedoms with power to award compensation.
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Grey River Argus, 20 August 1949, Page 5
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