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SEANCES PUBLIQUES ET PLAIDOIRIES Publlc SITTINGS and PLEADINGS DEUXIEME PARTIE SEANCES PUBLIQUES ET PLAIDOIRIES PART *II. -- PUBLlC SITTINGS AND PLEADINGS. COU12 PERMANENTE DE JUSTICE INTERNRTIONAT-E VINGT-TROISIEME SESS [ON (EXTRAOIIDINAIRE) PREMIÈRESEANCE PUBLIQUE tenue au Pnktis de lu Paix, La Huye, le lundi 9 novembre 1931, à IO h. 30, sous la présidence de M. Adntci, Président :. Pre'seîzls : MM. ADATC~,Président ; GUEKKEKO, Vice-Prési- dent ; le baroii KOLIX-JAEQUE:~~YNS,le comte ROSTWOKOWSKI, IvTRI. I~KOMAGEOT,ALTAMIRA, ASZILOTTI, UKKUTIA,sir CECIr. Huusr, 8131. SCH~CKIXG,NEGULESCO, Jhr. VA;^ EYSIXGA, M. \YANG, juges; M. BRUXS,juge ad hoc; M. HA~IMARSKJOLU, Grefier de lu Cour. Le PK~SSIDENTdéclare I'aiidieiice ouverte et ;innonce qiie la vingt-troisihiiie session extraordinaire de la Coiir, convoquée conforméiiient à l'article 23 du Statut, dans les conditions indiqukcs lors de la derniere audience de la session précédente, a comrncncti: le j novembre. Lü Cour tient atijoiird'hui la pre- rnière aiidience de la sessioi; La Cour se trouve rictuclleiiierit saisie de cinq affaires, savoir: I) l'affaire des zones franches de la Haute-Savoie et dit Pays de Gex, affaire clont la Coiir ne sera pas cn rnesure de s'occuper avant le mois clfavriI 1932 ; 2) l'affaire relative au traitement des riatioiiaiis polonais et des autres personnes d'origine ou de langtie polonaise dans le territoire de Dantzig ; cette affaire est en ktat depuis le 29 octobre dernier ; 3) l'affaire du statut juridique de certaines parties du Groë~llancl oriental; cette affaire ne sera en état que le ~~r septembre 1932 ; 4) I'affaire reIative à I'üccès et au stntionneinent des navires de guerre polonais dans le port de Dantzig, eii Ctat depuis le j novembre, et enfin 5) l'affaire relative à l'interpretation de l'Accord Caphanda- ris-Slolloff du g décembre 1927 ; cette affaire sera en état le rer février 1932. De ces affaires, seules celles qui ont trait respectivement au --traiternent cles nationaux polonais à Dantzig et 5 l'accés et l QuatriErne dance de la Cour. PERMANENT COURT OF IN'TERNATIONAL JUSTICE TM'ENTIr-TH IRD (EXTRAORDINARY) SESSION FIRST PUBLIC SITTING held at the Peace Palace, The Hague, on llfonday, ~Vovembergth, 1931, ut 10.30 a.nz., the President, M. A dntci, firesiding l. Present : MM. ADATCI,President ;GUICRREKO, Vice-President ; Baron ROLIN-JAEQUE~IYNS, Count I~OSTWOROWSKI, MM. FROMA- CEOT, ALTAMIRA, ANZTLOTTI,URRUTIA, Sir CECIL HURST, AIM. SCHISCKING,NEGULESCO, Jhr. VAN EYSIKGA,M. \VANG, Jzrdges; M. BRUNS,Jztdge ad hoc ; AI. HAMMARSKJOLD,Regis- lrar O/ the Court. The PRESIDENTdeclared the hearing open and announced that the Twenty-Third Extraordinary Session of the Court- an estraordinary session convened under Article 23 of the Statute, in the circumstances indicated at the Iast hearing of the previous session-opened on November 5th. The Court to-day held tlie first hearing of the seçsion. The Court, at the moment, had five cases before it, namely : (1) the case of the Free Zoncs of Upper Savoy and the District of Gex, which the Court would not be in a position to deal with before April xg3z ; (2) the case relating to the treatment of Poliçh nationals and other persons of Polish origin or speech in the Danzig territory ; this case had been ready for hearing since Octo- ber 29th last ; (3) the case concerning the legs1 status of certain parts of Eastern Greenland ; this case would not be ready for hearing tiIl September ~st,1932 ; (4) the case concerning access to or nnchorage in the port of Danzig of Polish war vessels, which had been ready for hearing siiice November 5th, nricl, lastly, (j) the case concerning the intcryretation of the Caphan- daris-hiolloff Agreement of Deceinber gth, 1927 ; this case ivoiild be ready for hearing on February ~st,1932. Of the above five cases only two wcre ready for hearing : that concerning the treatment of Polish nationals at Danzig. Fourth meeting of the Court. au stationnement des navires de guerre polonaiç à Dantzig sont en état. Bien que la Cour ait été saisie de la première de ces affaires dès le 28 mai de cette année et de la seconde seulement depuis Ie 28 septembre, elle a décidé de traiter en premier lieu 1'aff:iire concernant l'accès et le stationnement des navires de guerre polonais dans le port de Dantzig. En effet, Ics termes inèmes de la résolution par laquelle le Conseil a sou- mis cette affaire à la Cour, prient cette dernière de bien vou- loir rendre son avis en temps utile pour permettre au ConseiI de prendre une décision au cours de sa session qui s'ou- vrira le 2j janvier 193' ; une clause analogue fait défaut dans la résolution du Conseil relative au traitement des natio- naux polonais. La question posée A la Cour dans l'affaire dont elle doit inaintenaiit s'occuper est ainsi conçue : [Voir +. 9.1 . Dans cette affaire, la Cour, considérant tes Gouvernements de la Ville libre de Dantzig et de Pologiie comme suscep- tibles de foiiriiir des renseignements conforrnCrnent & l'article 73, no 1, alinéa 2, du Règlement, les a informés qu'elle était disposée à entendre des ,exposés oraux présentés en leur noIn au cours d'une audience publique tenue à cet effet. Ces deus Gouvernenients ont dEciaré qu'ils désiraient se prévaloir de la Iacultc qiii leur avait été ainsi accordée. Le Gouvernement de la Ville libre ? désigné pour le représenter sir John Fischer \irillirirns, Oxford, assisté cornme conseil du Dr Ferber, Ober- regierz4ngsrat de la Ville libre de Dantzig.; le Gouvernement poIonais, de son côté, a désigné comine agent M. '\Ylodzimierz hIoderow, d81égué à Dantzig de 1'OCZice général du conten- tieux de I'ctat, assisté de M. Joseph 31arlewski, rapporteur au ministère des Affaires étrangères à Varsovie, et comme conseil M. Charles clr: Visscher, doyen de la Faculté de droit i l'Uni- versité dc Gaiid. Un des deux Gouvernements considérés ainsi par la Cour coinme priiiciynlement intéressés dans l'affaire, & savoir le Gouvernemciit dc la Ville libre, ne comptant pas sur le siège de juge de SEL nationalité, et se prévalant du droit que lui confère i'rirticle 71 du Règlement, a désigné pour siéger dans la présente affaire bf. Viktor Bruns, directeur de l'Institut de Droit international public à Berlin. Le Président prie 31. Bruns de vouloir bien prendre I'enga- gement solenrlel prévu par l'article 20 du Statut et par l'article j du Règlement. M. Brtu~sayant pronoricl la déclaration dont il s'agit, le PRESIDEXT,au noIn de la Cour, en prend acte et le déclare FIRST SITTING (NOVEMBER gth, 1931) Zog and that concerning access to or anchorage in the port 'of Danzig of Polish war vessels. Although the first of these cases had been before the Court since May 28th of this year, and the second only since Sep- ternber 28th, the Court had decicied to deal first with the case conceming access to or anchorage in the port of Danzig of Polish war vesçels. Indeed the text of the resolution in virtue of which the Council submitted this case to the Court contained a specific request that the Court would be so good as to give ifs opinion in time to enable the Council to take a decision on the matter at its session opening on January 25th, 1932 ; no similar clause was inserted in the Council's resolution concerning the treatment of Polish nationals at .d Danzig. The auestion vut to the Court in the case with which it had noG7 tto deal waç worded as follows : In this case the Court, considering the Government of the Free City of Danzig and the Government of Poland as Likely to be able to furnish information in accordance with Article 73, No. 1, paragraph z, of the Rules of Court, informed those Governments that it would be prepared to hear oral state- ments to be submitted on their behalf at a public meeting . held for the purpose. 'Both those Governments declared that they wished to lnake use of the right which had been thus .accorded them. The Government of the Free City appointed as its representative Sir John Fischer Williams, Oxford, assisted by Dr. Ferber, Oberregierungsrat of the Free City of Danzig as Counsel ; and the Polish Government appointed as its Agent M. Wlodzhnierz Moderow, representative of the Gen- eral Litigation Office of. the State at Danzig, assisted by . M. Joseph Marlewski, rapporteur to the .Ministry for Foreign Affairs at Warsaw, and M. Charles de Visscher, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Ghent University, as Counsel. As one of the two Governments considered by the Court as chiefiy concerned in the case, viz., the Government of the Free City, had no judge of its own nationality on the Bench, it had availed itself of the right conferred on it by Article 71 .of the Rules of Court, and had appointed Dr. Viktor Bruns, Director of the Institute of Public International Law at Berlin, to sit in the present case. The President requested Dr. Bruns lo make the solemn declaration provided for by Article 20 of the Statute and by Article 5 of the Kules of Court. Dr. BRUNShaving made the solernn declaration in question, the PRESIDENT-on behalf of the Court-took note of this 17 du'ment installé comme juge ad hoc dans l'affaire relative à l'accès et au stationnement des navires de guerre polonais dans le port de Dantzig. La Cour devra cette fois siéger en l'absence de deux de ses membres, MM. Kellogg et de Bustamante, qui se trouvent pour le moment dans l'impossibilité de venir à La Haye, La Cour se trouvant ainsi composée, le Président constate que les deux Gouvernements intéressés n'ont pas communiqué officiellement d'accord intervenu entre eux, conformément à l'article 46 du Règlement, au sujet de l'ordre entre les exposés oraux.
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