Memorandum from William M. Rose, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Determinations regarding cessation of hostilities, termination of the war and of the emergency

71196-016-2 4 Dated 12/21/45 # *Group 233 4 4 CESBATION OF HOSTILITIES, TERMINATION OF THE BAR AND OF THE SABHORACY Wh. memor 10 Cicero says that War is a contest or contention carried on by force. But usage applies the term, not to an action, [a contest,) but to a state or conditions and thus we may say, War is the state of persons contending 4 by forme, as such such Whether war begins with the formal pronouncement of a politi- cal departsent of goverment or arises out of the organised armed...