The treatment of the subject is limited exclusively to the settlement of state-disputes by bodies of a judicial nature, no attention is paid to the removal of difficulties between states by bodies such as the General Assembly of the United Nations or similar bodies in other international organisations, nor to the category of growingimportance of disputes between states and private individuals or corporations. From the multifarious examples of new procedures created since 1945 three have been selected for discussion: first the “Conciliation and Good Offices Commission” of UNESCO, instituted by the General Conference (1962) for the settlement oj disputes concerning the application of the Convention against discrimination in education of 1960; secondly the Fact finding Center, proposed by the Netherlands' Government to the 18th session (1963) of the General Assembly of the U.N.; and finally the 2 Commissions of Inquiry, instituted in 1961 by the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation in accordance with art. 26 of its Constitution to consider the complaints, filed by Ghana against Portugal and later on by Portugal against Liberia concerning the “effective observance” by Portugal and Liberia respectively of labour conventions nos. 105 and 29 on forced labour. The examination of these 3 instances sheds sidelights on the position, which the International Court of Justice occupies in the minds of various governments, and on the authority and prestige, which the Court enjoys, a problem which increasingly vexes many scholars and institutes.

It will be a long time before the implications of the recent constitutional developments in France can be fully and definitively assessed. While there is general agreement on the far-reaching character of the recent modifications of the 1958 Constitution, the scope and content of any possible radical change in the French political system is still a matter for speculation. Too many points remain obscure.