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Grenville Clark, Lawyer, Autograph on his Book Given to A. Einstein: Peace through disarmament and Center revision, 1953 - Grenville Clark, Lawyer, Autograph on his Book Given to A. Einstein: Peace through disarmament and Center revision, 1953 Detailed proposals for revision of the United Nations Charter / by Grenville Clark and Louis B. Sohn Autograph / dedication of Grenville Clark, one of two authors of the book, to A. Einstein, 1953. The book is from the library of the late prof. Albert M. Einstein Ex libris of Jewish National University library Jerusalem Preliminaries Print Julius 1953., 149 pp., soft cover, 25.3 x 16.8 cm. Condition: light wear an discoloring to cover; good condition. Weight: 290 gr. Grenville Clark (November 5, 1882 – January 13, 1967) was a 20th-century American Wall Street lawyer, co-founder of Root Clark & Bird (later Dewey Ballantine, then Dewey & LeBoeuf), member of the Harvard Corporation, co-author of the book World Peace Through World Law, and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. The National Historic Register (US DOI, National Park Services) has called Clark an ”international lawyer and legal architect of world organizations, ” who was ”active in world peace efforts and an advisor in governmental affairs.” Further, he was a ”drafter of the United Nations Charter, author of A Plan for Peace and co-author of the acclaimed World Peace Through World Law. He was an advisor to four United States Presidents, founder of the Military Training Camp Association (1917) and leader of the Plattsburg movement, and author of the Selective Service Act of 1940. Clark organized the two Dublin Peace Conferences, held at the Morse Farm in 1945 and 1965, out of which grew the United World Federalists.” On October 16, 1945, before the UN Charter entered into force, Clark, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, former New Hampshire Governor Robert P. Bass, and more than forty others held the ”Dublin Conference” in Dublin, New Hampshire. There they passed a ”Dublin Declaration”, which, judging the UN Charter inadequate to preserve peace, proposed transformation of the U.N. General Assembly into a world legislature. It stated, ”Such a government should be based upon a constitution under which all peoples and nations will participate upon a basis of balanced representation which will take account of natural and industrial resources and other factors as well as population. It cannot be based on treaties...in which the states... act and vote as states”.] It called for ”limited but definite and adequate power for the prevention of war.