I.R.Y. Jennings, The Acquisition of Territorial Sovereignty in International Law ( Manchester: Manchester University Press , 1963), pp. 6-7.
2.
United Nations Reports of International Arbitral Awards (Vol. 2), p. 829. Permanent Court of Arbitration, 1928 United States vs. the Netherlands.
3.
United Nations Reports of International Arbitral Awards (Vol. 2). p. 1105 and American Journal of International Law (Vol. 25, 1931), p. 390 France vs. Mexico.
4.
Permanent Court of International Arbitration Series A/B, No. 53, p. 3 Denmark vs. Norway.
5.
Wolfgang G. Friedmann, Oliver J. Lissitzyn and Richard Crawfor Pugh (eds.), Cases and Materials on International Law ( St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Company, 1969), p. 440.
6.
Arnold D. McNair and H. Lauterpacht, Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases, 1927-28 ( London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1931), Case No. I.
7.
Ibid., Case No. 68.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Yehuda Z. Blum, Historic Titles in International Law (The Hague : Nijhoff, 1965), p. 200.
10.
Ibid., p. 202. For an opposing view, see Philip Jessup, 'The Palmas Island Arbitration '. American Journal of International Law (Vol. 22, 1928), p. 740. For a similar decision see 'the Miniquiers and Ecrehos Case', International Court of Justice Reports (1953).
11.
John Hanessian , Jr., Polar Area Studies (Vol. 2, No. 5, 19), p. 11.
12.
Yehuda Blum, op. cit, p. 211.
13.
American Journal of Internal Law (Vol. 22, 1928), p. 910.
14.
Grave doubts still exist concerning the validity of acquisitive prescription. Huber was very obtuse in dealing with the actual word prescription. See, Willem JohanBernard Bersfelt, The Miangas Arbitration (Over Den Dom, Utrecht: Kemink en Zoon. N.V., 1933), passim; and Normal Hill, Claims to Territory in International Law and Relations (London: Oxford University Press , 1945), pp. 156-158.
15.
American Journal of International Law (Vol. 26, 1932), pp. 390-92.
16.
Norman Hill.op. cit, passim.
17.
American Journal of International Law (Vol. 26, 1932), p. 392.
18.
Ibid., p. 390.
19.
H. Lauterpacht , Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1934), Case No. 49.
20.
W. Friedmann, et al., op. cit.
21.
Ibid.
22.
Permanent Court of International Justice, Series A/B no. 46, 1933. pp. 68-69.
23.
Ian J. Strange .The Falkland Islands ( Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles Ltd, 1972), p. 47.
24.
'Sovereignty: the secret doubts'. The Sunday Times 20 June 1982, p. 20.
25.
Ian Strange, op. cit., p. 48.
26.
M.B.R. Cawkell , D.H. Maling and E.M. Cawkell, The Falklands Islands ( London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.1960), pp. 17-21.
27.
Ian Strange, op. cit., p. 51.
28.
Ibid., p. 52.
29.
M.B.R. Cawkell, et al., op. cit, pp. 29-31.
30.
Ibid., pp. 31-32.
31.
The Parliamentary History of England From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803: Vol. 16 1765-1771 (London: T.C. Hansard, 1813), pp. 1336-7. The full text appears in Appendix I.
32.
Ibid.
33.
Ibid., pp. 1337-8. The full text appears in Appendix 1 .
34.
Ibid.
35.
a. A possibly interesting historical parallel to the Thatcher Government's decision to withdraw HMS Endurance for budgetary reasons.
36.
M.B.R. Cawkell, et al., op. cit, pp. 34-5.
37.
Ibid., p. 35.
38.
Ian Strange, op. cit, p. 55.
39.
Ibid.
40.
Ibid., p. 57.
41.
M.B.R. Cawkell, et al., op. cit, pp. 41-2.
42.
Ibid., p. 43.
43.
The Parliamentary History of England From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803: Vol. 16 1765-1771 (London: T.C. Hansard, 1813), pp. 1337-8.
44.
Yehuda Blum, op. cit, p. 202.
45.
Ibid. See also, F.C. Fisher, 'Arbitration of the Guatemalan-Honduran Boundary Dispute', American Journal of International Law (Vol. 27, 1933), pp. 415-17.
46.
Yehuda Blum.op. cit, p. 341.
47.
Ian Brownlie , Basic Documents on African Affairs (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1971), p. 360.
48.
Yehuda Blum , op. cit, p. 7. See also P.A. Verykios, La Prescription en Droit International Public (Paris: Editions A. Pedone , 1934).
49.
D.H.N. Johnson , 'Acquisitive Prescription in International Law ', British Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 27, 1950), p. 353.
50.
Ibid., pp. 353-4.
51.
'Sovereignty: the secret doubts', The Sunday Times 20 June 1982, p. 20.
52.
F.M. Auburn, Antartic Law and Politics (London: C. Hurst & Co., 1982), p. 53.
53.
'Sovereignty: the secret doubts', The Sunday Times 20 June 1982, p. 20.
54.
Ibid.
55.
Hugo Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis, in J.B. Scott (ed.), Francis W. Ketsey (trans.), The Classics of International Law (London: 1952), Book 2 Chapter 4, Section 7. See also, D.H.N. Johnson, op. cit and L. Oppenheim, International Law: A Treatise, 7th edition ( London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1948-52), pp. 526-29.
56.
'Sovereignty: the secret doubts', The Sunday Times 20 June 1982, p. 20.
57.
Alfred Cobban, National Self-Determination (London: Oxford University Press, 1944), pp. 45-6, and 'The Western Sahara Case', International Court of Justice Reports (1975). See also Alfredo BrunoBologna's article in this issue of Millennium.
