Chapel Hill, NC
January-March 1998

Editorial Advisory Board &
Technical Staff

From the Editor . . .

Present at the Footnote
Introducing a new series, "Witness to History," with a recollection of riots in Cairo.

. . . and the Publisher

We Begin to Get Serious
Announcing the birth of a new non-profit corporation, "American Diplomacy Publishers," with high hopes and noble purposes.

Article Abstracts

The Trials of Concurrent Jurisdiction:
The Case of Rwanda

by Madeline H. Morris

“In the weeks from April 6 to July 17, 1994, between half a million and a million Rwandans were butchered by their neighbors. . . . Two and a half years after those events, and notwithstanding efforts at both national and international levels to bring the perpetrators to justice, the first trials both in the Rwandan courts and before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) were begun only weeks ago. ”

Roosevelt and the Wartime
Summit Conferences with Stalin


by Charles G. Stefan

"I know you will not mind my being brutally frank when I tell you I think I can personally handle Stalin better than your Foreign Office or my State Department.”


FDR to Churchill, March 18, 1942

Plus an Update -


Stuart Kennedy on the


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