The military take-over of Goa by India on December 18, 1961, was of legal importance, not only because it raised serious issues concerning the application of United Nations law, but also because it indicated a major difference between the East and the West in the interpretation of that law.

As “house counsel” to the Department of State, the Office of the Legal Adviser exerts a major influence on the views and policies of the United States Government concerning matters of international law.

The injection of nuclear armaments and modern delivery systems into Communist world strategy, together with shifts in the balance of world political and economic power, have caused basic revisions in Soviet theories of war, politics, and international law.

This note is meant to take the place of a review of the first six volumes of the Reports of the Decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Communities which are published in the four official languages of the European economic communities and contain the decisions rendered during the years 1954–1960.

In the ever expanding panorama of international law, few areas have been more intriguing to the scholar or of greater concern to the international lawyer than the international responsibility of states for injuries to aliens.

The Fiftieth Session of the Institut de Droit International was held in Salzburg, Austria, from September 4 to 13, 1961, under the presidency of Professor Alfred von Verdross.

At the invitation of the Argentine Institute of International Law, representatives of the several professional associations of international law in the American Republics met in Buenos Aires September 12 to 15, 1960.

We have read with great interest the remarks “De Jure Naturae et Gentium” by Mr. Alfred P. Rubin of the U. S. Department of Defense. But as these remarks were obviously written with reference to this writer’s editorial, “Natural-Law Thinking in the Modern Science of International Law,”

The American Society of International Law held its 56th annual meeting from April 26 to April 28, 1962, at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D. C.

Eight regional and local meetings sponsored by the Society in cooperation with other organizations have been held this year in Washington, D. C, Columbus and Toledo, Ohio, Gainesville, Florida, New Haven, Connecticut, Newark, New Jersey, and Durham, North Carolina.

Research fellowships for studies on the legal aspects of space activities have been awarded by the American Society of International Law to the following applicants: Spencer M. Beresford of Bethesda, Maryland, David M. Leive of Chevy Chase, Maryland, Robert D. Crane of Vienna, Virginia, and Stephen Gorove of Akron, Ohio.

The material for this section has been prepared by a committee consisting of Richard B. Bilder, Gordon A. Christenson, Stanley L. Cohen, Thomas T. F. Huang, Sylvia E. Nilsen, Herbert K. Reis, And Alfred P. Rubin, Under The Chairmanship of Ernest L. Kerley, all of the Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, with the exception of Mr. Rubin, who is in the Department of Defense.