The press reports characterized the resolution of the Chaco Commission of the League of Nations Assembly as amounting “to condemning Paraguay henceforth as the aggressor in the Chaco War.” This resolution of January 16, 1935, recommended a raising of the arms embargo in behalf of Bolivia, because Bolivia had accepted and Paraguay had rejected the Assembly’s report made on November 24, 1934, under Article 15, paragraphs 4 and 9 of the Covenant.

For a long time it has been asserted by the Department of State and to a more limited extent by the Department of Labor that a native-born woman who married a foreigner prior to March 2, 1907, and thereupon acquired a foreign matrimonial domicile, lost her American citizenship.

It is frequently asserted even today that the armed neutrality formed by the Northern Powers in 1780 constituted the first organized effort by neutral states to secure freedom of navigation on the high seas. Likewise, it is said that this league was promoted by Catherine II of Russia for the express purpose of protecting neutral rights.

There are some problems of international law which at times are felt to be in the air. Today without doubt one of these questions is that of original acquisition of territorial sovereignty. Arbitration cases such as those concerning the Island of Palmas and Greenland started a heated discussion of the principles involved in the field of scientific research.

The petitioners’ railway was constructed in Hungary under a charter granted by the government in 1884. By a subsequent agreement, duly approved by the Hungarian Government, the operation of the railway was leased to the Siidbahn Co. for the entire period of the concession, on terms providing for the division of the receipts in certain percentages between the two companies.