Separate opinion by Judge Alvarez

INDIVIDUAL OPINION BY JUDGE ALVAREZ.

[Translation.]
1 am in agreement with the Judgment delivered by the Court,
but 1feel that it is desirable to give prominence to certain consider.
ations of a legal character in support of that Judgment.

The cataclysm through which we have just passed opens a new
ern in the history of civilization;it is of greater importance than
al1those that preceded it : more important than that of the Renais-
sance, than that of the French Revolution of 1789 or than that

Joint Declaration by Judges Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice and Tanaka (as appended immediately after the judgment)

it is my opinion that the conclusions of the Court in the Israel v.
Bulgaria case concerning the scope and effect of paragraph 5 of
Article 36 of theStatute are not applicable to the case now decided,
for the abundant reasons stated in the present Judgment.

Judge WELLINGTOK NOO makes the following Declaration:

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