No longer can questions of international law be left to
the sophists for academic controversy. They are germane to the slowly emerging world cosmos, and the League has not failed to register this fact by its appointment of jurists to draft a syllabus of such points as crop up continually in the day-to-day work of Geneva. For this reason more than usual interest attaches to the tenth annual issue of The British Year Book of International Law (1929) (Oxford University Press, 18s.). A paper on " The Mandate for Palestine ' is contributed by Norman Bentwich, Attorney- General of the Palestine Government. This should be read and digested by all who take it upon themselves to hold forth on the recent troubles. Perhaps the most important article bearing upon a question of principle is that by Dr. A. P. Fachiri on International Law and the Property of Aliens." The interminable Optants dispute is only one of many, involving conflict between domestic and international jurisdiction, which defy solution so long as no ruling is established either in favour of Dr. Fachiri's contention or that which has been advanced in a previous paper by Sir John Fischer Williams.
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