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...Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law and the John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, said that the International Court of Justice should decide whether or not the U.N. has the right to investigate what the French call "an internal problem." By delegating the problem Sohn felt neither party would lose prestige, and the dispute could be settled peacefully...
...letter to the New York Times, Sohn said that "White The Algerian issue is a highly political one, it raises at the same time a basic constitutional question of charter interpretation. Past experience shows that his kind of question cannot be decided simply by counting votes in the General Assembly; it requires a calm, impartial approach which can be found only in the halls of justice...
Although France has refused to accept the Assembly's decision. Sohn believes it would accept a decision from the International Court. "Though France is unwilling," he said, "to abide by a decision of the Assembly, which it considers patently unconstitutional, it has always in the past accepted court judgements...
...light of last week's publication of the records of the Yalta conference, Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law and John Henry Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, yesterday advocated releasing the discussions of the 1944 Dumbarton Oaks Conference...
...Sohn said in a letter to the New York Times that the Yalta papers furnished important information on the early background of the U.N., but found it "strange" that the material from the Dumbarton conference, which formed the basic plans for the U.N. charter, had not been made public first. He said, "After the printing of the Yalta papers, there is no longer any valid excuse for withholding the Dumbarton Oaks papers from the public...