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Nations of February 3, 1923, do involve international obligations of the kind contemplated by the Treaty between the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan and Poland, signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919, and that these points come within the competence of the League of Nations as defined in that Treaty:

That the position adopted by the Polish Government, and referred to in (a) and (b) of the said Resolution was not in conformity with its international obligations.

No. 7-Given by the Court on September 15, 1923 on "The Question concerning the acquisition of Polish nationality."

That the position of the persons contemplated in the Resolution of the Council of the League of Nations of July 7, 1923, arising out of the application by Poland of Article 4 of the Treaty of June 28, 1919, between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Poland does fall within the competence of the League of Nations under the terms of the said Treaty. That Article 4 of the abovementioned Treaty does refer only to the habitual residence of the parents at the date of birth of the persons concerned.

No. 8-Given by the Court on December 6, 1923 on

The delimitation of the Polish-Czechoslovakian
Frontier (Jaworzina question)."

That the question of the delimitation of the
frontier between Poland and Czechoslovakia
has been settled by the decision of the Con-

ference of Ambassadors of July 28, 1920 which is definitive, But that this decision must be applied in its entirety, and that consequently that portion of the frontier in the region of Spisz topographically described therein remains subject (apart from the modifications of detail which the customary procedure of marking boundaries locally may entail) to the modifications provided for under paragraph 3 of Article II of the same decision.

JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED BY THE COURT IN THE CASE

OF THE S.S. WIMBLEDON1

Pronounced by the Court on August 17, 1923 upon

the following case:

Between Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, acting conjointly (and Poland by intervention under Article 63 of the Court Statute) on the one hand, and Germany on the other hand, concerning the refusal of the German authorities on March 21, 1921, to allow the S.S. Wimbledon to pass through the Kiel Canal with war material on her

way to Poland.

The judgment which was drawn up by the majority of the Court, composed of nine judges, is to the effect that the suit was validly submitted, that the German authorities were wrong in refusing to allow the passage of the S.S. Wimbledon through the Kiel Canal and that the German Government is, in consequence, under an obligation to make good the prejudice sustained, which is estimated at approximately 140,000 French francs.

Judges Anzilotti and Huber were unable to agree with the majority of the Court and availed themselves of the right of delivering a separate opinion. M. Schücking, the German National Judge, took the same course.

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Monthly Summary of the League of Nations. Vol. III, No. 8 September 15, 1923.

This is the first example in history of the arraignment before an international court of a sovereign state by one or more other sovereign states.

SOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

American Journal of International Law, 2 Jackson Place, Washington, D. C.

Articles by Professor Manley O. Hudson. Vol. 17, January 1923, p. 15, The First Year of the Permanent Court of International Justice; Vol. 18, January 1924, p. 1, The Second Year of the Permanent Court of International Justice.

American Bar Association Journal, 1612 First National Bank Building, 38 South Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Professor Manley O. Hudson conducts a department which deals with recent opinions and decisions of international courts with particular attention to the opinions of the Permanent Court of International Justice.

World Peace Foundation, 40 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mass.

The official publications of the Permanent Court of International Justice.

Debater's Handbook Series, Volume 11, No. 2, published by The H. W. Wilson Company, 958 University Avenue, New York City

International Conciliation, Nos. 157 and 186

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Nos. 1-189 (April, 1907, to August, 1923). Including papers by Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, George Trumbull Ladd, Elihu Root, James Brown Scott, Barrett Wendell, Charles E. Jefferson, Seth Low, John Bassett Moore, William James, Andrew Carnegie, Pope Pius X, Heinrich Lammasch, Norman Angell, Charles W. Eliot, Sir Oliver Lodge, Lord Haldane, Alfred H. Fried, James Bryce, and others; also a series of official documents dealing with the European War, the League of Nations, the Peace Conference, and with several of the political and economic problems resulting from the War. A list of titles and authors will be sent on application.

190. Franco-German Reconciliation: Text of an address delivered July 6, 1923, at Paris, by Professor F. W. Foerster, formerly of the University of Munich, before the annual meeting of the Advisory Council in Europe of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. September, 1923.

191. Debate on Disarmament in the House of Commons, July 23, 1923. Reprinted from the London Times, July 24, 1923. October, 1923.

192. The Development of the International Mind: An Address delivered before the Academy of Inter national Law at The Hague, July 20, 1923. by Nicholas Murray Butler. November, 1923.

193. Documents regarding the European Economic Situation, Series No. III; Correspondence between Germany, the Allied Powers and the United States, relating to Reparations; Speech of General Smuts in London, October 23, 1923. December, 1923.

194. The Centenary of the Monroe Doctrine, by Charles Evans Hughes: An address delivered before the American Academy of Political and Social Science at Philadelphia, November 30, 1923; American Cooperation for World Peace, by David Jayne Hill. January, 1924. 195. The Winning Plan selected by the Jury of the American Peace Award. February, 1924.

196. Report upon Health, Sickness and Hunger among German Children,
by Haven Emerson, M.D., Professor of Public Health Administration,
Columbia University. March 1924.
197. The Permanent Court of International Justice, by John Bassett Moore.
The United States and the Permanent Court. Information regarding
the Court. April, 1924.

Special Bulletin: Can the League of Nations Be saved? by Sir Charles
Walston. November, 1923.

Copies of the above, so far as they can be spared, will be sent to libraries and educational institutions for permanent preservation post paid upon receipt of a request addressed to the Secretary of the American Association for International Conciliation.

A charge of five cents will be made for copies sent to individuals. Regular subscription rate twenty-five cents for one year, or one dollar for five years.

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SIR WILLIAM J. COLLINS, London, England
HELLMUT VON GERLACH, Berlin, Germany
EDOARDO GIRETTI, Bricherasio, Italy
CHRISTIAN L. LANGE, Geneva, Switzerland
T. MIYAOKA, Tokio, Japan

OTFRIED NIPPOLD, Saarlouis

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