Suchergebnisse

When the German government announced on March 16 of this year that it no longer deemed itself bound by the disarmament provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, a great step was taken toward the realization of the demand forGleichberechtigungwhich has been the main objective of National Socialist foreign policy. In view of the forthcoming conversations which had been scheduled to take place at Berlin, the time chosen for this decision was unexpected. The act of denunciation itself had been foreshadowed, however, by the withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations, and by her actual rearming in defiance of the limitations of the Treaty. It involved no sudden innovation in policy, but was merely a public acknowledgment of thefait accompli; it marked the final stroke in one stage of a long and bitter campaign against the "Diktat" of Versailles.

During the year 1929, the Permanent Court of International Justice
held two sessions, and handed down three judgments and three formal
orders. The sixteenth (extraordinary) session of the court began on May
13, 1929, and ended on July 12, 1929; and the seventeenth (ordinary) session began on July 8, 1929, and ended on September 10, 1929. At the sixteenth session, the court gave an order in the " Case Concerning the Denunciation by China of the Treaty of November 2, 1865, between China and Belgium" ; an order in the " Case Concerning the Factory at Chorzow (Indemnities)" ; a judgment (No. 14) in the " Case Concerning the Payment of Various Serbian Loans Issued in France" ; and a judgment (No. 15) in the " Case Concerning the Payment in Gold of the Brazilian Federal Loans Issued in France." At the seventeenth session, it gave an order in the " Case of the Free Zones of Upper Savoy and the District of Gex," and a judgment (No. 16) in the " Case Relating to the Territorial Jurisdiction of the International Commission of the River Oder." In addition to these activities, extensions of its jurisdiction and changes in the court's structure, which have been previsaged, make the year notable in the history of the court.