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The Thirtieth Year of the World Court

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Extract

The International Court of Justice had a busy year in 1951. It handed down judgments in the Haya de la Torre Case and the Anglo-Norwegian Fisheries Case, and an advisory opinion relating to Reservations to the Genocide Convention. An order indicating interim measures of protection was issued in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Case, and orders were given in the case concerning Rights of American Nationals in Morocco and in the Ambatielos Case; these three cases, as well as two newly-instituted cases—the Minquiers and Ecrehos Case and the Nottebohm Case, were pending at the end of the year.

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Research Article
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1952

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References

1 Res. 478 (V), General Assembly, 5th Sess., Official Becords; this Journal., Supp., Vol. 45 (1951), p. 13.

2 I.C.J. Reports, 1950, p. 406.

3 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, pp. 15–69; this Journal, Vol. 45 (1951), pp. 579–590.

4 General Assembly, 6th Sess., Official Records, Supp, No. 9 (A/1858), p. 5; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 45 (1951), p. 113.

5 General Assembly, 6th Sess., Official Records, loc. cit., pp. 7–8; this Journal, Supp., loc. cit., pp. 117–118.

6 I.C.J. Reports, 1950, p. 266; this Journal, Vol. 45 (1951), p. 179.

7 I.C.J. Reports, 1950, p. 395; this Journal, loc. tit., p. 195.

8 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, p. 71; this Journal, Vol. 45 (1951), p. 781.

9 The original text of the concession was in French; an English translation was published in League of Nations Official Journal, 1932, p. 3205.

10 The early history of the concession is traced in a British memorandum submitted to the Council of the League of Nations, in League of Nations Official Journal, 1932,p. 2298.

11 See Toynbee, Survey of International Affairs, 1934, pp. 224–247.

12 The writer has been supplied with a “text” of the concession in French, and a reference to “the official French text” was made in Toynbee's Survey of International Affairs, 1934, p. 242 n. As published in the League of Nations Official Journal, however, the French was labeled “translation.” The United Kingdom application of May 26, 1951 (I.C.J. 1951, General List, No. 16), stated that “a copy” of the agreement, as well as an “English translation prepared for the use of the Company,” was annexed; and in the printed annex the English text was labeled a translation.

13 An English translation is published in 5 Middle East Journal (1951), p. 353.

14 I.C.J. Yearbook, 1950–1951, p. 48.

15 The French text of the 1933 agreement refers to it as both a “concession” and a “convention.”

16 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, p. 90; this Journal, Vol. 45 (1951), p. 790.

17 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, p. 89; this Journal, Vol. 45 (1951), p. 789.

18 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, p. 100.

19 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, p. 106.

20 Document C.N.89.1951.

21 In treatises on the Court published in 1934, p. 416, and 1943, p. 426.

22 Quoted from Hudson, Permanent Court of International Justice, 1920–1942, p. 425.

23 In a treatise on the Permanent Court of International Justice, published in 1934, p. 415.

24 In a treatise on the Permanent Court of International Justice, published in 1943, pp. 425–427.

25 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, pp. 116–144.

26 The writer can identify only three of the four judges who voted negatively.

27 Vol. 24 (1930), p. 541; Vol. 45 (1951), p. 240.

28 I.C.J. Reports, 1950, p. 391.

29 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, p, 86.

30 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, p. 109. The history is set out in Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 651 (Dec. 17, 1951), pp. 978 ff.

31 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, p. 11.

32 I.C.J. Reports, 1951, p. 103.

33 British Parliamentary Papers, Cmd. 8194.

34 U.N. Doc. A/1929, Oct. 22, 1951.

35 The original text is:

ETANT ENTENDU que la réserve (e) est destinée en prineipe à s’appliquer aux cas où 1’absence de relations est antérieure au différend qui s’est élevé et existe indépendamment de ce différend. Elle ne sera pas normalement invoquée dans les cas où les relations ont été rompues après ou bien en conséquence du litige. Néanmoins, toute divergence d’opinions qui pourrait s’élever dans un cas donné tombera sous la décision de la Cour selon l’Article 36 para. 6, de son Statut. Tenant compte de cette prévision du Statut, le Gouvernement d’Israël ne peut engager ni soi-même ni ses successeurs à se conformer strictement à cette interprétation au cas où une contestation s’élèverait quant à la competénce de la Cour selon cette Déclaration, et au cas où une contestation pareille s’élèverait, une pleine liberté d’action est réservée quant à la manière dont la juridiction de la Cour serait invoquée.”

36 Security Council, Official Records, 2d Ser., p. 467.

37 Concluded on the part of the United States in pursuance of Sees. 115a and 115b of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948. 62 Stat. 150; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 43 (1949), p. 64.

38 U. S. Treaties and Other International Acts Series, No. 1783; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 43 (1949), p. 111.

39 Treaties and Other International Acts Series, No. 1788.

40 Department of State, Press Release, No. 337, May, 1, 1951; Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 619 (May 14, 1951), pp. 785–787.

41 But see Security Council, Official Records, 1st Ser. (1946), p. 138.