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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017
If the twenty-sixth year of the World Court has not been one of intense activity, it has been marked by events of some significance for the future. The single session held by the Court during the year was devoted to administrative questions, largely to those growing out of the reorganization of the previous year. One proceeding was instituted before the Court, the first since its reorganization, and the Court was seized of one request for an advisory opinion emanating from the General Assembly. Some progresswas made in the extension of the Court’s jurisdiction, and a series of resolutions concerning the Court was adopted by the General Assembly on November 14, 1947.
This is the twenty-sixth in the writer’s series of annual articles on the World Court, the publication of which was begun in this Journal, Vol. 17 (1923), p. 15.
1 Journal of the General Assembly, 2d Session, No. 53, pp. 8–9.Google Scholar
2 Court Document, Distr. 151, 1947.
3 Security Council, Official Records, 2d Year, Supp. No. 3, p. 36.
4 Security Council, Official Records, 2d Year, No. 34, pp. 726-727.
5 The texts of the invitation and of Albania’s reply are published in Security Council, Official Records, 2d Year, No. 7, p. 131.
6 Document A/471, p. 6; Journal of the General Assembly, 2d Session, No. 56, p. 4.
7 Report of Committee 2 of Commission IV on Interpretation of the Charter in Document 887, IV/2/39, 9 June 1945.
8 See the writer’s analysis in this Journal, Vol. 41, p. 866.
9 1 United Nations Treaty Series, p. 49.
10 Two interesting brochures on the dispute have been published by the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores of Guatemala.
11 Based in part upon the list appearing in the Court’s Yearbook for 1946–1947, pp. 110–112.
12 Subject to the effect of the Paraguayan decree of April 26, 1938.
13 League of Nations Official Journal, Special Supplement, No. 193, p. 45.
14 Document A/459, 11 November 1947.
15 In 32 American Bar Association Journal (1946), pp. 832–836, 895–897.
16 In this Journal, Vol. 41 (1947), pp. 445-452.Google Scholar
17 See Publications of the Permanent Court of International Justice, Series D, No. 6, and the supplements in Series E.
18 Volume 1 appeared in 1947.
19 British Treaty Series No. 32 (1946). Cmd. 6916.
20 80th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Executive C.
21 Document A/AC/14/34, 19 November 1947.
22 This procedure was followed in connection with the controversy concerning the application of Articles 11 and 12 of the Statute in the elections of Judges. The rule adopted by the General Assembly on November 19, 1946, was approved by the Security Council on June 4, 1947, thus obviating a previous proposal that an advisory opinion be requested.
23 Document A/C.6/165, 8 October 1947.
24 Doc. A/459, 11 November 1947.
25 Document A/427, 27 October 1947.
26 1 United Nations Treaty Series, p. 30.
27 Document A/503, 20 November 1947.
28 “ In the British-Albanian case, Albania has appeared and pleaded its cause before the Security Council. The International Court of Justice might therefore properly rule that it has jurisdiction to render an advisory opinion since this procedure is incidental to the jurisdiction of the Security Council.” Philip C. Jessup, in 42 Illinois Law Review (1947), p. 285.
29 See the Court’s Yearbook, 1946-1947, p. 232.
