Par un traité conclu le 7 octobre 1894 à Tegucigalpa, dit Traité Gámez-Bonilla, le Honduras et le Nicaragua convinrent de charger une commission mixte de tracer leur frontière commune, qui s'étend de l'océan Pacifique à l'Atlantique près du cap Gracias a Dios (article I) et de soumettre à la procédure d'arbitrage les points que cette commission ne résoudrait pas (article III). La Commission, qui devait se conformer à certaines règles définies à l'article II, réussit à fixer la frontière depuis l'océan Pacifique jusqu'à un point à l'intérieur, nommé Portillo de Teotecacinte, mais ne put la fixer de là jusqu'à l'Atlantique, parce que le représentant honduréen lui voulait faire suivre le cours du fleuve Segovia ou Coco, tandis que le représentant nicaraguayen persistait à la tracer sur une rangée de montagnes au nord de ce fleuve. Ce désaccord ayant été finalement constaté en 1901, il y eut lieu d'entamer la procédure arbitrale.

Op 2 februari 1960 (N.J. 1960, 440) wees de Haarlemse Rechtbank vonnis in een belangwekkende zaak van scheiding tussen Hongaarse vluchtelingen, die wegens de fundamentele beginselen van internationaal privaatrecht, die zij raakt, nadere aandacht verdient.

Of old lawyers have been wrangling about the true nature of international law and indeed about its very existence. Although there is no likelihood that they will relinquish this pleasant habit in the near future, certain shifts may be discerned in the points on which their opinions are divided. At a time not so very far behind us there was much controversy about the question as to whether public international law should be considered only the external segment of public (or constitutional) municipal law—äusseres Staatsrecht as the Germans call it—or whether it constitutes a truly objective system of law having its sway over States independently from its adoption by any rule of municipal law. If the former proposition is the correct one—and in the Netherlands it has been vigorously and eloquently advocated by Suyling —public international law would be similar in character to private international law. For today it seems to be almost common ground that in principle rules of private international law appertain to municipal and not to international law in the objective sense.

Of late there have been a number of cases of aerial intrusion above foreign territories. The U-2 affair is well known to the World! It has been followed by the recent RB-47 incident where the Soviet Union similarly alleged violation of its airspace by the United States of America. There has also been violation of Indian airspace by unrecognized aircraft. Sometime back, an Indian Canberra was shot down by Pakistan for alleged violation of Pakistan airspace.