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The Future of the International Law for the Protection of National Minorities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2017

Josef L. Kunz
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 1945 , pp. 89 - 95
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1945

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References

1 Kunz, Josef L., La question de la procédure en matière des minorités, Revue Sottile, Vol. III (1925), pp. 69-82; Google Scholar Some urgent and practical reforms concerning the international protection of minorities, International Law Association, 1926 session, Proceedings; Der Schutz der nationalen Minderheiten als Rechtsproblem, Bulletin International du Droit des Minorites, The Hague, 1930; Prolegomena zu einer allgemeinen Theorie des internationalen Rechts nationaler Minderheiten, Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht, Vol. XII (1932), pp. 221-272

2 The standard bibliographical work is Robinson: Das Minoritätenproblem und seine Literatur, 1928. A new edition of this work, covering the whole literature down to 1943, will be published soon in the United States.

3 Robinson, Jacob and others, Were the Minorities Treaties a Failure? , New York, 1943;Google Scholar Sulkowski, Joseph, The problem of international protection of national minorities , New York, 1944;Google Scholar “The Minorities Problem,” in New Europe, Vol. IV, No. 6 (July-August 1944), pp. 10-29.

4 Erich Hula, “The Nationalities Policy of the Soviet Union,” in Social Research, Vol. XI, No. 2 (1944), pp. 168-201.

5 Wurfbain, L'échange gréco-bulgare des minorités éthniques, 1930.

6 J. B. Schechtmann, “The Option Clause in the Reich's Treaties on the Transfer of Populations,” this Journal, Vol. 38 (1944), pp. 356-374. See also H. Wachenheim, “Hitler's transfer of populations in Eastern Europe,” in Foreign Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 4 (July, 1942), pp. 705-718.

7 G. Streit, , Der Lausanner Vertrag und der griechisch-türkische Bevölkerungsaustausch, Berlin, 1929 Google Scholar; Kiosseoglou, , L'échange forcé des minoriés d'après le traité Lausanne, Nancy, 1926 Google Scholar; Ténékides, Le statut des minoriès ei l'échange obligatoire des populations gréco-turques, Rev. Gen. de Droit International Public, Vol. 31 (1924), pp. 72-88.

8 The New York Times, September 15, 1944, p. 5.

9 Same, September 25, 1944, p. 6.

10 Robert Machray, The Polish-German Problem, London, 1943.

11 President Dr. Eduard Benes writes: “Czechoslovakia wishes to avoid any recurrence of the situation which led to Munich. She is therefore considering the transfer of the greatest possible number of her German inhabitants…“; Foreign Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 1 (October, 1944), p. 36.

12 The Nazi mentality is spreading outside of Germany. Nowadays we speak calmly of tossing millions of human beings from their homes to nowhere in order to get rid of troublesome ‘racial minorities'. Hitler set the example in the countries that came under his control, and we seem ready to do the same …“: Gaetano Salvemini in Foreign Affairs, as cited, p. 58. Fritz T. Epstein writes that “the transfer solution, in spite of its utter disregard for human rights, is regarded more and more as the only possible way out”, but states that “the whole transfer mania is an illusion“: New Europe, Vol. IV, No. 6 (July-August, 1944), p. 29.

13 The New York Times, October 12, 1944, p. 8.