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Foreign
Claims

Settlement Commission

of the

United States

Decisions
and

Annotations

FOREWORD

Although in recent decades American property has been nationalized by foreign countries with undesirable frequency, the average lawyer knows comparatively little about that phase of international law which deals with the adjudication of international claims. Indeed, apart from a small group of international lawyers, diplomats, and claimants, most attorneys and citizens are unfamiliar with the work of this country's national claims commission, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, a tribunal of the United States whose function is the adjudication of claims of American citizens against foreign countries for the nationalization or other taking of their property.

In part, the unawareness of the average lawyer of the functions and procedures for adjudication of claims is attributable to the fact that Commission decisions, although published as slip opinions, do not appear in any reporter system. For this reason, my predecessor as Chairman of the Commission directed that this volume be prepared and published, containing selected decisions together with topical annotations of all claims programs completed to date.

Although no material is included on programs presently being administered, such as claims against Yugoslavia for the nationalization of property of United States nationals since July 19, 1948, and the presettlement adjudication of claims against Cuba and China, the book affords an inclusive discussion of the many and varied factual and legal problems which have been resolved by the Commission in its past claims programs, and which comprise the background against which its present and future claims programs will be administered.

It is hoped that by acquainting the reader with the role and work of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, this book will contribute to a greater understanding of international claims adjudication.

LEONARD V. B. SUTTON

Chairman

MEMBERS OF FOREIGN CLAIMS

SETTLEMENT COMMISSION

LEONARD V. B. SUTTON, Chairman, March 28, 1968 to present.

THEODORE JAFFE, March 29, 1961 to present.

SIDNEY FREIDBERG, June 24, 1968 to present.

WHITNEY GILLILLAND, Chairman, August 6, 1954 to November 15, 1959.

HENRY J. CLAY, August 6, 1954 to August 15, 1958.

PEARL CARTER PACE, August 6, 1954 to March 28, 1961 (became Chairman December 1, 1959).

ROBERT L. KUNZIG, August 21, 1958 to January 19, 1961.

THOMAS W. S. DAVIS, December 2, 1959 to March 28, 1961.

EDWARD D. RE, Chairman, March 29, 1961 to February 27, 1968. LAVERN R. DILWEG, April 14, 1961 to January 2, 1968.

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