The material in this section is arranged according to the system employed in the annual Digest of United States Practice in International Law, published by the Department of State.

The field of international law in general is sharply demarked from that of municipal law, but it is the individuals, composing the population of the various states and nations, who furnish the points of contact where international friction may be generated. With the claims of a citizen or subject against his own government, and its officers and agencies, international law naturally has nothing to do. But when an individual asserts a claim against a government not his own, or against the individuals who carry on its operations, such a claim falls on one side or the other of the boundary between international law and municipal law, according to whether the claimant has or has not an adequate remedy in the ordinary courts of the state against which the claim exists.

At its 681st meeting on October 25, 1957, the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly adopted a resolution which provided in part as follows:

The Fourth Committee

In Garcia-Mir, the district court found that prolonged detention of the undocumented aliens was, in the circumstances, “arbitrary,” and therefore a violation of international law. But it also held that even though it was in violation of international law, the courts would not order an end to the detention because it had been authorized by the Attorney General. The court of appeals affirmed.

In April, 1934, Mr. Eiji Amau, understood to be the official spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office, made public a statement of which, according to the New York Times of April 21, the following is said to be an authentic translation.

The material in this section is arranged according to the system employed in the annual Digest of United States Practice in International Law, published by the United States Department of State.

On April 23, 1954, the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ratified the Geneva Conventions of 1949 with reservations not here pertinent.