THE SUEZ CANAL
Sir-In. a broadcast talk, Professor A. G. Davis argued that if anyone has broken international law in the present dispute over the Suez Canal, it is not Colonel Nasser, but the British Government, From a purely legalistic point of view, there may be something in his argument. But if we consider the matter philosophically, we are led to ask what will be left of international law if agreements like that between Egypt and the Canal Company can be arbitrarily repudiated by one party. As Kelsen has pointed out, the basic norm of international law is Pacta sunt servanda. Unless the norm is accepted, the code of international law is not worth the paper it is printed on. The professor, by the way, spoke of the British Government as "disinterested" when he meant "not interested."
G.H.
D.
(Christchurch)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 890, 24 August 1956, Page 5
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140THE SUEZ CANAL New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 890, 24 August 1956, Page 5
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