SIDELIGHTS ON THE PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

Authors

Ake Hammarskjold, Permanent Court of International Justice

Abstract

In bidding you welcome, in the name of the Permanent Court of International Justice, in this room where that great institution holds its public meetings and pronounces its judgments and opinions, my first word should be, I think, one of regret-regret that a more worthy representative of the Court has not been able to receive you here today. And I daresay that the President of the Court, who would have been the obvious person to welcome you, shares those regrets,-although perhaps from a different point of view. He would, in fact, have liked immensely to be able to meet you here and on this occasion; indeed, I received just five minutes ago a wire from him asking me to convey to you his best wishes for the success of your visit to The Hague and for the whole of your trip. Still more, before leaving The Hague, Dr. Huber asked me to tell you, and that I think is a most eloquent sign of his sincere wish to make your acquaintances, that he would very much appreciate it if he could see you in his native city of Zurich some time early in September in order to explain to you, not so much perhaps certain aspects of the working of the Court, as certain sides of the fundamental structure on which the Court and international jurisdiction in general are based.

Recommended Citation

Ake Hammarskjold, SIDELIGHTS ON THE PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE, 25 Mich. L. Rev. 327 (1927).
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