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World Peace Through World Law. Two Alternative Plans. Third edition enlarged. By Grenville Clark and Louis B. Sohn. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1966. pp. liv, 535. Index. $8.50.
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* Grenville Clark, eminent legal scholar and long-time member of the Harvard Corporation, died in January, 1967. Louis B. Sohn is Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard.
1 Reviewed by Edgar Turlington in 53 A.J.I.L. 203 (1959).
2 Under the original plan, disarmament was to be accomplished in 12 years by ‘ ‘ two main stages … a preparatory stage of two years and an actual disarmament stage of ten years“; whereas under the “proposed Treaty” for a World Organization, “general and complete disarmament (is) to be carried out … step by step over a six-year period.''
3 Substantially the same chimerical promise of protection of sovereignty is held out is the Charter's proposed Bill of Eights contained in Annex III thereto. There is also a sort of Tort Claims Act under the preceding Annex, that on Privileges and Immunities.
4 Somehow, there does not seem to be any corresponding provision in the draft Treaty by which the World Disarmament and World Development Organization is to be brought into being. Unless otherwise noted, provisions generally equivalent to those in the suggested revised Charter are to be found in the proposed draft Treaty.
5 In a 1966 Addendum, in their third edition, to the 1960 Foreword of their second edition, the authors call attention “ t o changes required by the separate structure of the proposed new organization … which would apply also to a revised Charter … resulting from further reflection and many comments and criticisms,” including “an increase in the proposed annual budget from two per cent … to three per cent“ of the sum of the estimated gross national products of all the Members. It may well be that the authors intended that the increased budget should apply to either plan. This may also apply to “changes relating to the length of the disarmament period“ noted above (note 2); but the increase in the budget of the new Organization would apparently still be over and above the budget of the existing United Nations as suggested hereunder.
6 Under the assumed budget for 1980, for which the example is given, “the quota of the United States” would be “approximately 34 per cent” of the total for the United Nations.
7 57 Michigan Law Review 308, 310 (December, 1958).