What were the most important border disputes settled by the Permanent Court of International Justice during its existence 1922-40?

myrab51

Erik the Red's Land The International Court at the Hague awarded the disputed territory to Denmark. The decision was accepted by both countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_the_Red%27s_Land Franco-Swiss Border Dispute The French and Swiss governments agreed to a new round of negotiations on the status of free zones on their borders under the supervision of the Permanent Court of International Justice. http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1931.htm Nov 20 07, 2:24 PM

zbeckabee

I suspect that would depend upon "who" was involved in "which" case. Between 1922 and 1940 the PCIJ dealt with 29 contentious cases between States, and delivered 27 advisory opinions. The Reports of Series A, B and A/B (from 1931) contain the decisions (Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders) delivered by the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1922 to 1940. The written pleadings, records of the public hearings and correspondence for each case are available in the Series C Reports: “Acts and Documents Relating to the Judgments and Advisory Opinions given by the Court” (until 1930) and “Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents” (from 1931). Series D contains acts and documents concerning the organization of the Court, as well as the preparation of its Rules of Court and the modifications to those Rules. The Court’s Yearbooks (entitled Annual Reports) can be found in Series E. Series F contains the catalogues of the Court’s publications. See Permanent Court of International Justice (to the left) on the following link: http://www.icj-cij.org/pcij/index.php?p1=9 Nov 20 07, 2:29 PM

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This site you tells about some of the decisions. There were several decisions about territories/border disputes. Some of the most important were: The status of Eastern Karelia (1923) The Jaworzina question (Polish-Czech border) (1923) The status of Eastern Greenland (1931) The Memel question (1932) http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/decisions.htm Nov 20 07, 4:37 PM

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Here's some more on the Karelia case: Quote: During the 1920s, Finns were involved in attempts to overthrow the Bolshevists in Russian Karelia (East Karelia), for instance in the failed Aunus expedition. These mainly private expeditions ended after the peace treaty of Tartu. After the end of the Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922, the Russian part of Karelia became the Karelian Autonomous republic of the Soviet Union (ASSR) in 1923. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Karelia Nov 20 07, 4:39 PM

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And here is a little background information on the Memel case (today's Klaipeda in Lithuania). Quote: In 1920, according to the Treaty of Versailles, the German area north of Memel river was put as Territoire de Memel under the administration of the Council of Ambassadors, and French troops were send for protection. During the times of French administration, the idea of an independent State of Memelland grew in popularity among local inhabitants. The organisation "Deutsch-Litauischer Heimatbund" (German-Lithuanian homeland federation) promoted the idea of an Freistaat Memelland, which later should return back to Germany, with its 30 000 members, both ethnic German and/or Lithuanian, about 21% of the total population. On January 19, 1923, three years after Versailles, Lithuania occupied territory during so called Klaip?da Revolt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memel_Territory Nov 20 07, 5:06 PM

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And finally a little about the Jaworzyna case. In the end Poland had to give up this area. Quote: A dispute between Czecho-Slovakia and Poland over the delimitation of the Teschen district, which was divided between the two countries by the Council of Ambassadors on July 28, 1920 after a projected plebiscite had been abandoned, was settled last week in favor of Czecho-Slovakia by the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, which concurred in the frontier described by the Ambassadors. The principal cause of dissension between the two countries was the village and district of Jaworzyna, which commands Czecha-Slovakian plains and is of immense strategic value to that country. Both parties agreed to the arbitration of the League of Nations, which sent the case to the World Court for an advisory opinion. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,717196,00.html Nov 20 07, 5:12 PM