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The Estrada Doctrine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

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Editorial Comment
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1931

References

1 See this Journal , p. 805, infra, for book-note reviewing La Opinion Universal sobre La Doctrina Estrada.

2 See text of the declaration in this Journal , Supplement, p. 203.

3 Award in this Journal , Vol. 18 (1924), p. 147.

4 Cf. the excellent studies of Raymond Leslie Buell, “ The United States and Central American Stability” and “ The United States and Central American Revolutions,”Foreign. Policy Association Reports, Vol. VII, Nos. 9 and 10, July, 1931.

5 “. . This Government [The United States] will be happy to continue with the new Government of Brazil the same friendly relations as with its predecessors.” Dept, of State,Press Releases, Publication No. 129, Nov. 8, 1930, p. 323. Cf. the statement of Secretary Hay regarding a change of government in Venezuela in 1899, I Moore, Int. Law Digest,p. 236.

6 “ The change of a head of state, or the change of its government is not believed to terminate a foreign mission” although “It is the practice of the United States to forward new letters of credence accrediting the minister to the new sovereign or head of state in caseof a change thereof.” Hyde, International Law, Vol.I, pp. 730 and 728.

7 The Instituto Americano de Derecho y Legislacian Comparada contemplates the publication of a further volume of comments on the Estrada Doctrine. (See infra, p. 805, for review of the first volume.) It is to be hoped that the new volume will contain all the available official data.