- Fra The New York Times, 17.februar 1979:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 — John Gallup Laylin, an international lawyer and senior partner at Covington & Burling here, died this morning after he was struck by a falling tree branch on his farm in Great Falls, Virginia. He was 76 years old.
Mr.Laylin, a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Cornell and a graduate of Harvard Law School, was a Special Assistant Under Secretary at the Department of Treasury from 1933 to 1935. He drafted the gold clause resolution that was adopted by Congress in 1933, taking the United States off the gold standard.
On leaving the Treasury Department, Mr.Laylin became a partner of Covington & Burling, where he advised many foreign governments on fiscal policy.
He also negotiated the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 on behalf of Pakistan. Recently, Mr.Laylin was a member of the State Department's advisory committee on the Law of the Sea and was the principal founder of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs.
Survivors include his wife, the former Diana Spofford Morgan, a sister Ruth MacDonald of Norwalk, Ohio; and four children, John G. Laylin Jr. of Fernadale, Washington, Louise Elizabeth (Princess Firouz) of Teheran, David Lewis, also of Teheran, and Laura Laylin of West Newton, Mass. He also leaves 11 grandchildren.
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Fra The Washington Post, 18.februar 1979:
John Gallup Laylin, 76, a senior partner with the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, died Friday at Fairfax Hospital after he was injured by a falling tree branch on his farm in Great Falls, Vairginia.
Mr.Laylin served as special assistant to the undersecretary of the Treasury from 1933 to 1935, and helped draft the gold clause resolution that was adopted by Congress and took the United States off the gold standard.
After leaving the Treasury, he joined Covington & Burling and specialized in international law. During 1940 and early 1941, he advised governments in exile, including the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia, on protecting their citizens' property in this country from being seized by the German government.
During the late 1940s, he did legal work for the Iranian government, which won a case in the U.N. Security Council that helped lead to an end of Soviet wartime occupation of northern Iran.
Mr.Laylin also negotiated the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 between India and Pakistan. He had worked as an adviser on fiscal matters to a number of foreign governments, and was a member of the State Department's advisory committee on the law of the sea.
He was a principal founder of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and president of the Telluride Association from 1927 to 1928.
Mr.Laylin was a native of Norwalk, Ohio. A 1925 graduate of Cornell University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he earned a law degree at Harvard University.
Early in his career, he worked as a special assistant to U.S. ambassador to Mexico Dwight Morrow, and for the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.
Mr.Laylin belonged to the Metropolitan and the 1925 F Street clubs in Washington and the Century Club in New York City.
He is survived by his wife, the former Diana S. Morgan, of the home; two sons, John G. Jr., of Ferndale, Wash., and David L., of Tehran, Iran; two daughters, Laura, of West Newton, Mass., and Princess Louise Firouz, of Tehran; a sister, Ruth MacDonald, of Norwalk, and 11 grandchildren.
The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to Hidden Springs College, Hidden Springs, California.
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IN MEMORIAM John Gallup Laylin.
John Gallup Laylin, an eminent practitioner of international law, died on February 16, 1979. Assistant General Counsel of the Treasury Department in the early days of the New Deal, he had been a member of the firm of Covington & Burling, Washington D.C., for forty-four years. His practice covered a wide variety of international legal matters. He
advised many foreign governments on matters of high importance, and was decorated by four of them. John's abilities received perhaps their greatest challenge, and their greatest triumph, in the Indus Waters dispute between India and Pakistan, in which he advised Pakistan in a protracted controversy and in negotiations leading to the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, which divided the waters of the Indus system equitably between the two countries.
John was active in professional associations and conferences, and was a strong believer in evolving legal principles through the give-and-take of such groups. He was the principal founder of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on the Law of the Sea. The author of many scholarly articles and monographs on international legal subjects, he was always a friend and supporter of the International Lawyer, and a few months before his death agreed to serve on its Editorial Advisory Committee. He had served as a member of the Council of the International Law Section and as chairman of three Section committees: the Committee on Relations of the Executive and the Legislative Branches of the Government, the Committee on Uses of International Inland Waters, and the Committee on Oceanography.
His graciousness, charm and generosity will be missed as much as his superb legal skills.
BRICE M. CLAGETT
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1902 - 1979 (76 years)
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