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Private Foreign Investment and International Organizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Stanley D. Metzger
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More rapid industrial and agricultural development of the economically underdeveloped three-quarters of the globe is the most important long-run task in international relations, with the sole exception of avoiding major warfare. While economic development depends primarily upon domestic efforts to marshal and direct resources, both human and material, the marshaling and direction of supplementary external resources can assist materially in attempting to achieve that objective. While the major external resources necessary to supplement domestic efforts will continue to be governmental and intergovernmental assistance, there has been for some time now, and will doubtless continue to be, a substantial insufficiency of such resources.

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International Organization , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Winter 1968 , pp. 288 - 309
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1968

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3 Hackworth, Vol. III, pp. 658–659, 657–658.

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17 UN Document A/6518, November 21, 1966, the report of the Second (Economic and Financial) Committee, reprints the text of the resolution, which was adoped by the Assembly on November 25, 1966, 104 for, none against, with 6 abstentions (including the United States), as General Assembly Resolution 2158 (XXI).

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22 Metzger, , Virginia Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 614, 622–625Google Scholar.

23 For a description of the United States program see Surrey, Walter S. and Shaw, Crawford (ed.), A Lawyer's Guide to International Business Transactions (Philadelphia: American Law Institute-American Bar Association, 1963), pp. 336–346, and references therein, particularly note 121Google Scholar; and Rivkin, Arnold, “Investment Guaranties and Private Investment,” Federal Bar Journal, 10 1959 (Vol. 19, No. 4), pp. 357–366Google Scholar. Collins, Lawrence A. and Etra, Aaron, “Policy, Politics, International Law and the United States Investment Guaranty Program,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 1966 (Vol. 4, No. 2), pp. 240–296Google Scholar, represents the most comprehensive recent treatment.

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25 See, e.g., the Agreement Between the United States of America and Afghanistan, June 5 and 9, 1957, in TIAS 2972 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1958)Google Scholar; and the Agreement Between the United States of America and Ecuador, March 28 and 29, 1955, in TIAS 3230 (Department of State Publication 5955) (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1956)Google Scholar.

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[N]either questions under the Constitution and the laws of the Argentine Republic as to the motive, occasion for or legitimacy of an expropriation nor the final decision reached in the Argentine judicial process on any question of the Argentine Constitution and laws may be reviewed by the Arbitral Tribunal, since these are matters, within the internal jurisdiction of the Argentine Republic.

(Emphasis added.)

27 The text reflects the report of IBRD to the Secretary-General of the United Nations of September 20, 1965, on the status of the International Bank studies on multilateral investment guarantees, reprinted in International Legal Materials, 1966 (Vol. 5), pp. 92–95, and material from Metzger, , Virginia Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 625–627Google Scholar.

28 International Legal Materials, Vol. 5, pp. 93–94.

29 The major European countries indicated, at the OECD experts' meetings and continuously thereafter, an unwillingness to subscribe to a paid-in fund which would back investment guaranty contracts without regard to the particular nationality of the investor so long as he was a national of a subscribing state.

30 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. 76 (87th Congress, 2nd Session, 1962) (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1963), pp. 260–261Google Scholar; United States Code Annotated, Title 22: Foreign Relations and Intercourse (St. Paul, Minn: West Publishing Co., 1964), 2370 (e), pp. 227–228Google Scholar; Foreign Assistance Act of 1963, Section 301 (e), United States Code: Congressional and Administrative News, 88th Congress-First Session, 1963 (St. Paul, Minn: West Publishing Co., 1963), pp. 425–427Google Scholar; and Public Law 89–6, 89th Congress, 1st Session, March 24, 1965, reprinted in International Legal Materials, 1965 (Vol. 4), p. 458. The last-named enactment requires that the “voting power of the United States” in die Fund for Special Operations of IDB “shall be exercised for the purpose of disapproving any loan from” that Fund for “any project, enterprise, or activity in any country” where the President has suspended United States assistance because of the Hickenlooper Amendment.

31 Lillich, Richard B., “The Protection of Foreign Investment and the Hickenlooper Amendment,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 06 1964 (Vol. 112, No. 8), p. 1116CrossRefGoogle Scholar, quoting the New York Herald Tribune, January 7, 1964, p. 10 (international edition).

32 Lillich, , University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 112, No. 8, p. 1127Google Scholar; and Mctzger, , Virginia Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 619–620Google Scholar. As Lillich points out, however, in 1963, when the amendment was further tightened, while Agency for International Development (AID) Director David E. Bell was not enthusiastic in indicating no objection, the Secretary of State, though unhappy about congressional attempts to “legislate foreign policy,” reversed the State Department's very marked antagonism of just a year earlier, stating that the amendment was “a good thing.” (Lillich, , University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 112, No. 8, p. 1126Google Scholar.) Lillich further questions, quite cogently, whether this change of view had any substantial factual basis (ibid., pp. 1127–1128). At the April 1967 annual meeting of the American Society of International Law Andreas Lowenfeld, former Deputy Legal Adviser of the Department of State, indicated a substantial number of additional complications in connection with the administration of the Hickenlooper Amendment.

33 Banco National de Cuba v. Sabbatino, United States Reports, Vol. 376: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1963 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1964), pp. 428–430Google Scholar.