The thirty-sixth year of the World Court—the twelfth year of the International Court of Justice—has been marked by an apparent tendency to increase the use of the Court. This is a good augury for the Court.

In its Advisory Opinion of October 23, 1956, in the matter of Judgments of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization upon Complaints made against the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

The critics of public international law are legion. Some have decried its primitiveness. Others have denied even its existence. A few have expounded the need for a renovation, an entirely new approach, a new international law.

The governments of eleven Western countries have recently declined to accept a Soviet proposal to include an unconditional most-favored-nation clause in a draft All-European Agreement of Economic Co-operation.

On September 17, 1939, Soviet troops crossed the Soviet-Polish frontier and, advancing rapidly, soon occupied the oft-disputed territory known at various times as Eastern Poland, Eastern Galicia, or Western Ukraine and Western Byelorussia.