Individual Opinion of President McNair

INDIVIDUAL OPINION OF PRESIDENT McNAIR

1 concur in the conclusion reached in the Judgment of the Court
and wish to add some words of my own, as the reasons leading me
to this conclusion are not entirely the same as those contained in
that Judgment.

1 shall begin by making some remarks of a preliminary character.
Under the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Statute of
the Permanent Court of International Justice no State was under

Dissenting Opinion of Judge Cordova

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE CORDOVA

Much to my regret, 1 have to disagree with both the reasoning
and the conclusion reached by the Court in this case.
The judicial authorities of Sweden set up the guardianship of
Marie Elisabeth Boll, a minor living in Sweden but of Dutch
nationality, on March 18th, 1954. This guardianship, according
to Swedish law, only refers to the administration of the interests

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