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Nationalism and the Multinational Enterprise: Legal, Economic and Managerial Aspects. Edited by H. R. Hahlo, J. Graham Smith, J. Graham Smith and Richard W. Wright. Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications Inc., 1973. Pp. x, 373 ($21.00). - The New Sovereigns: Multinational Corporations as World Powers. Edited by Abdul A. Said and Luiz R. Simmons. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1975. Pp. vi, 186 ($3.95).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

C. S. Kerse*
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University of British Columbia
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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 1976

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1 The first occurrence, according to Howe Martyn, was in a speech by David Lilienthal in Philadelphia in 1958: The New Sovereigns, at 33.

2 The multinational corporation is certainly not a newcomer to Canada. Montreal was founded in 1663 by a multinational corporation, the Sulpician Order/Messieurs Les Ecclsiastiques de St. Sulpice. About the same time the Hudson’s Bay Company was incorporated with the sole right to trade in Western Canada.

3 Chapter 6 on “The Multinational Enterprise in the National Setting: Africa,” by Dr. Walter Chudson, and Chapter 8 on “The Cosmocorporation: An Unsympathetic View,” by Mr. Eric Kierans.

4 An area of potential Canadian-U.S. conflict; witness the recent furore concerning the sale of office equipment to Cuba.

5 Proposal for a Regulation (EEC) of the Council on the Control of Concentrations between Undertakings, Doc. Com. (73) iaio final of 18 July 1973, Official Journal No. C92 of 31 October 1973, at 1.