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Legal Aspects of the Beirut Landing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Pitman B. Potter
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If Americans pause to consider and discuss the legal aspects of the action of the United States in landing Marines at Beirut on July 15, 1958, it is primarily for their own information and intelligence and that of their friends in other countries, and possibly that of people in so-called neutralist countries who may still be open to understanding in this matter.

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Editorial Comment
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , October 1958 , pp. 727 - 730
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1958

References

1 See Nussbaum, A., A Concise History of the Law of Nations 248 and 285 (New York, Macmillan, rev. ed., 1954).Google Scholar

2 See lectures by present writer at the Académie de Droit International at The Hague, 1930, 32 Eecueil des Cours 607-690, esp. 640-657 (Paris, Recueil Sirey, 1931).

3 Potter, loc. cit. 661, 678; and H. Wehberg, lectures on “La Police Internationale,“ 48 Hague Academy Recueil des Cours 7-131 (1934).

4 No text of the Chamoun appeal has been published, according to consultation with the White House, the Department of State, the Embassy of Lebanon and the New York Times. President Chamoun appealed to President Eisenhower through the U. S. Ambassador in Beirut, who cabled the President. See 39 Dept. of State Bulletin 181- 183, 235 (1958).

5 Reports of the United Nations Observation Group (UNOGIL) are to be found in U.N. Docs. S/4040 (July 3), S/4051 (July 16), S/4052 (July 17), S/4069 (July 30), 1958.

6 For recent discussion of protection of nationals abroad, see Proceedings of the Vth International Conference of Comparative Law, Brussels, Aug. 4-9, 1958, especially the remarks of Mr. William Roy Vallance.