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The Tribunal for the Interpretation of the Dawes Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

John Fischer Williams
John Fischer Williams*
Affiliation:
on the Reparation Commission
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Extract

The readers of the American Journal of International Law may like to have a brief account of the constitution of this tribunal and of its work up to the end of its last sitting in May, 1928.

Although from the point of view of scientific jurists, it may be true that the awards of the tribunal, limited as it is to the interpretation of a single instrument, cannot be said to be of importance as laying down or even developing any general principles of international law, the practical importance of the decisions has been great, and thus the work of this piece of international mechanism is of interest to students of international affairs.

Type
Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 1928 , pp. 797 - 802
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1928

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References

1 These agreements are printed in the Supplement to this Journal, Vol. 19, January, 1925.

2 This curious method by which a gap in an agreement between A and B is to be, and is, filled by an agreement between A and C had its origin in certain considerations of “ high politics,” which thus resulted in something which the irreverent might call a “ chinoiserie,”but to which the wise will give its proper value. (This is not to be taken as indicating, let me hasten to add, that it is impossible at one and the same time to be both irreverent and wise.)

3 See in particular, the first of the reasons which the tribunal gave for its second decision (this Journal , Vol. 21, p. 346).

4 Text of award printed in this Journal , Vol. 20 (1926), p. 566.

5 Text of award printed in this Journal, Vol. 21 (1927), p. 344.

6 This is a general statement of the effect of the decision, the details of which are of a some what complicated nature. The text is printed herein, infra, p. 913.