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REVIEW OF CURRENT PERIODICALS

BY CHARLES G. FENWICK

1. JOURNAL DU DROIT INTERNATIONAL, January-February, 1925. La Société des Nations et le développement du droit international privé, by A. Weiss (pp. 5-13), points out the effect of the World War upon the work of the successive Hague conferences engaged in the codification of international private law and shows how the task may be taken up anew under the auspices of the League of Nations. The objections formerly raised by Great Britian are referred to and the hope expressed that that country may abandon its attitude of isolation. The author, who is vice-president of the Permanent Court of International Justice, gives his approval to the proposal that the Permanent Court be given jurisdiction over controversies arising over the interpretation of international conventions within the field of the conflict of laws, and thus aid in the development of a systematic body of law. L'organization des communications et du transit et la Société des Nations, by G. Ripert (pp. 14-23), sketches the organization created by the League of Nations in pursuance of Art. 23 (e) of the Covenant and analyzes the leading principles of the conventions adopted at the Barcelona Conference in 1921 and at the Geneva Conference in 1923. The article is followed by an interesting contribution by A. Mestre, L'energie hydroélectrique et la Société des Nations (pp. 24-28), in which the writer takes up the special problems involved in the international regulation of high-power electric lines and the distribution of water-power among a group of interested states. La cour permanente de justice internationale et les interêts privés, by M. Travers (pp. 29-39), argues, in reference to the recent Mavrommatis case, against the British claim that the Permanent Court of International Justice had no jurisdiction to entertain a proceeding involving a mere private claim. When a state takes up the private claim of one of its citizens, holds the writer, it is acting in its capacity as a sovereign state and the dispute immediately becomes one between two states. In addition, the writer points out that it is all the more necessary to submit this class of disputes to the court because of the serious international controversies that they have given rise to. Le problem des doubles impositions devant la Société des Nations et la chambre de commerce internationale, by R. Picard (pp. 40-53), calls attention to the injustice and harm resulting from the double taxation to which a modern industrial enterprise is subject when doing business in several countries, and points out the efforts being made by the League and by the International Chamber of Commerce to relieve the situation. The writer recommends that a single principle of taxation be adopted, that of the domicil of the enterprise, and suggests that bilateral treaties would be the best method of

adjusting the situation. De la nationalité des habitants des pays à mandat de la Société des Nations, by P. Lampué (pp. 54-61), comments upon the conditions leading to the decision of the Council of the League of Nations that "the native inhabitants of a territory under mandate do not acquire the nationality of the Mandatory Power in consequence of the protection which they receive." M. Marcel Nast contributes a lengthy note on the introduction of French Civil and Commercial Law into Alsace-Lorraine, and M. J. Hamel a note on Aërial Law in 1924.

Ibid., March-April, 1925. The leading articles are all devoted to the international problems created by the Russian Soviet Government. La condition des étrangers dans l'Union des Républiques soviétiques, by A. Grouber and P. Tager (pp. 307-317), deals with the status of aliens, whether natural persons or corporations, domiciled in Russia. The internationalist principles of the Soviet Government show a tendency to accord full civil rights to foreign proletarians, while denying such rights, or granting them with restrictions, to the representatives of foreign capital. In both instances, however, the law applied in cases of conflict of laws is national Soviet law, except where an international treaty expressly calls for the application of foreign law. La reconnaissance en France du Gouvernement des Soviets et ses conséquences juridiques, by André-Prudhomme (pp. 318-330), deals with the supplementary question of the legal status of Russian citizens and corporations in France in consequence of the recognition of the Soviet Government by France on October 28, 1924. The writer points out the several aspects in which the respective laws of the two countries are in conflict, and is of the opinion that the act of recognition will have accomplished little for the resumption of commercial relations unless it is accompanied by new negotiations leading to an agreement between the two countries upon common rules of law based upon a compromise between respect for acquired rights and the needs of the new Russian state. Les rapports des traités russo-allemands et l'application du droit soviétique en Allemagne, by H. Freund (pp. 331-343), points out that many of the delicate questions arising in other jurisdictions by the non-recognition and subsequent de facto and de jure recognition of Soviet Russia were not present in the case of Germany owing to its early recognition of the Bolshevik Government. The several treaties between Germany and Russia are discussed and the provisions of the Treaty of Rapallo of April 16, 1922, summarized. Since that time the German courts have applied Soviet law in cases of conflict of laws in so far as such application was prescribed by custom and compatible with public order. Le statut du Gouvernement soviétique en Angleterre et en Amérique, by L. F. Crane (pp. 344350), concludes the subject by summarizing recent cases showing the attitude of the English courts with respect to the effect of the recognition of Soviet Russia by Great Britian and the attitude of United States courts as to the effect of non-recognition.

Ibid., May-June, 1925. Le statut international de Tanger, by P. Cot (pp.

609-627), is a careful study of the international status imposed upon Tangiers by the convention of December 18, 1923, between France, Great Britain and Spain. Following an interesting survey of the recent diplomatic history of Tangiers, the writer comments upon the unusual situation of Tangiers as subject to the nominal sovereignty of the Sultan but restricted by guarantees which leave political control in the hands of France, concede administrative privileges to Spain, and impose military neutrality in the interest of Great Britain. The agencies of local government are similarly anomalous. La naturalization in globo en Grèce et les traités de paix conclus postérieurement au 1er janvier 1913, by C. S. Ténèkidès (pp. 628-651), reviews in detail the measures adopted by Greece, in pursuance of treaty obligations, to provide for the collective naturalization of the inhabitants of territory transferred to Greece at the close of the Balkan wars and the World War, and of the immigrants coming to Greece as a result of the exchange of populations called for by the Treaty of Lausanne.

2. REVUE DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL ET DE LÉGISLATION COMPARÉE,

1925, Nos. 1-2.

Le traité de conciliation et de règlement judiciare entre l'Italie et la Suisse, by G. Diena (pp. 1–16), analyzes the treaty signed at Rome on September 20, 1924, and points out the significance of an agreement making no exception whatever from the obligation to settle disputes by one or other peaceable method. The text of the treaty follows. La loi agraire en Roumanie et son application aux optants hongrois de Transylvanie, by D. Negulesco (pp. 1735), is a brief for the measures taken by the Roumanian Government in pursuance of Art. 63 of the Treaty of Trianon. Des limitations à la souveraineté national dans les relations extérieures, by J. W. Garner (pp. 36-58), is a translation of an article originally appearing in the American Political Science Review, February, 1925. Le droit naturel ou objectif s'étend-il aux rapports internationaux?, by L. LeFur (pp. 59-79), raises the question whether in the absence of rules of positive international law courts of arbitration or judicial tribunals may have recourse to the rules of the natural law, and after an interesting discussion of general theory, answers the question in the affirmative. Les décisions de la cinquième session ordinaire de la Cour permanente de Justice internationale, by P. de Vineuil (pp. 80-114), is a descriptive and critical commentary. La convention générale des ports maritimes, by J. Hostie (pp. 115-154), continues a detailed commentary upon the convention begun in the preceding issue. La compétence des tribunaux internationaux, by F. Castberg (pp. 155–172), is a valuable study of the distinction between legal and political disputes and of the varieties of disputes that may arise on the one hand from the relations of one state with the nationals of another, and on the other hand from the application of the domestic law of one state in its relations with other states. La notion d'objet en