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SECTION B: ETHIOPIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2014

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Letter to the United Nations Commissioner in Eritrea, 3 December 1951

Letter to the United Nations Commissioner in Eritrea, 4 December 1951

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 46: CONSTITUTION-MAKER: SELECTED WRITINGS OF SIR IVOR JENNINGS , December 2014 , pp. 39 - 48
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2014 

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References

1 Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1930–1974.

2 Not included.

3 The 1831 Constitution of Belgium.

4 For the full text, see Resolution 390(v) of the UN General Assembly of 2 December 1950: ‘Eritrea: Report of the United Nations Commission for Eritrea’. See also the introductory paragraph of this chapter.

5 India was an independent realm within the Commonwealth from 1947 to 1950 and the King (not King-Emperor as Jennings states, as this title ceased to exist on Indian independence in August 1947) was represented in New Delhi by a Governor-General.

6 Pakistan was an independent realm within the Commonwealth until 1956.

7 See The Liquidators of the Maritime Bank of Canada v. The Receiver General of New Brunswick (Canada) [1892] UKPC 34 (2 July 1892).

8 Not found in the Jennings Papers.

9 Commissioner's formal statement not found.

10 Minister's statement not found.

11 Jean Bodin, sixteenth-century French jurist and philosopher; Thomas Hobbes, seventeenth-century English political philosopher and author of the seminal text Leviathan on the state's role.

12 Duff Development Company, Ltd. v. The Government of Kelantan and Another [1924] A.C. 797.

13 Amalgamated Society of Engineers v. Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd. [1920] 28 CLR 129.

14 The Balfour Declaration, made at the 1926 Imperial conference, established the principle that the Dominions were ‘autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations’. This laid the basis for the Statute of Westminster (1931).