¹ N. Y. Times, March 31, 1957.

² Boston Globe, March 31, 1957.

³ For example, the San Francisco Examiner, April 3, 1957, and the Chicago Tribune, April 23, 1957.

⁴ United Press radio commentary by Leroy Pope, April 22, 1957.

⁵ “S bol’noi golovy na zdorovuiu,” Izvestiia, May 26, 1957, p. 5; English translation annexed to the present note, at p. 771 infra. A summary of Professor Krylov’s article was broadcast by Radio Moscow on May 28. There is a translation, under the title “The guilty accuse the innocent,” in 9 Current Digest of the Soviet Press 22 (No. 21).

⁶ Sbornik deistvuiushchikh dogovorov, soglashenii i konventsii, zakliuchennykh SSSB s inostrannymi gosudarstvami, Moscow, Goaudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo politicheskoi literatury, 1924–. At present sixteen volumes of the Sbornik have been issued. The Sbornik for the U.S.S.R. was preceded by a series for the RSFSR, of which five volumes appeared between 1921 and 1923. These sources are hereinafter designated Sbornik RSFSR and Sbornik SSSB.

⁷ For the peace treaty with the Georgian Democratic Republic see 1 Sbornik RSFSR 27–34. For the special secret supplement see 3 Sbornik RSFSR 295.

⁸ Resolution of the plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, June 29, 1957. N. Y. Times, July 4, 1957, p. 2.

⁹ Lenin, V. I., “Doklad o voine i mire 7 marta [1918 g.],” 22 Sochineniia 327 (2nd ed., 1929)Google Scholar.

¹⁰ For the Non-Aggression Pact, dated July 25, 1932, see 7 Sbornik SSSR 12–15. A joint Polish-Soviet statement reaffirming the validity of the pact and other existing Polish-Soviet treaties and guaranteeing “the inviolability of peaceful relations between the two states” was signed on Nov. 26, 1938. It will be found in Official Documents concerning Polish-German and Polish-Soviet Relations, 1933–1939, at 181–182 (N. Y., 1939). It has not been published in the official Soviet treaty series.

¹¹ Text in 14 Dept. of State Bulletin 201 (1946); 40 A.J.I.L. Supp. 51 (1946); also in Harriet L. Moore, Soviet Par Eastern Policy, 1931–1945, at 265–277 (1945). The treaty is cited but not published in 11 Sbornik SSSR 198.

¹² General Lung Yun, vice chairman of the National Defense Committee of Communist China, was quoted by the New China News Agency on June 16, 1957, as having raised this question and others in criticism of Soviet actions vis-à-vis China. N. Y. Times, June 24, 1957, p. 1.

¹³ Sovetskoe gosudarstvo i pravo, No. 6, 1956, at 3–11, quoted in , John N. Hazard’s editorial, “Pashukanis is No Traitor,” 51 A.J.I.L. 385–388 (1957)Google Scholar.

¹⁴ “The Soviet Treaties and International Law,” 22 A.J.I.L. 753 (1928)Google Scholar; “The Second World War and International Law,” 40 A.J.I.L. 742 (1946)Google Scholar.

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¹⁷ Ibid 10.

¹⁸ Ibid. 11–12.

¹⁹ “Ogovorka rebus sic stantibus v mezhdunarodnoi praktike R.S.F.S.R.,” Sovetskoe pravo, No. 3, 1923, at 53 et seq.

²⁰ Ibid. 55–56.

²¹ For example, “Optatsii i plebistsit i nachalo samoopredeleniia v sovetskikh mezhdunarodnykh dogovorakh,” Sovetskoe pravo, No. 2, 1923, at 43–55, and “Eksterritorial’noe (vnezemel’noe) deistvie sovetskogo prava v zapadno-yevropeiskoi sudebnoi praktike,” ibid., No. 3, 1925, at 37–46.

¹ A summary of Professor Krylov’s article was broadcast by Radio Moscow on May 28, 1957.