As the United Nations commemorates 1975 as “International Women's Year,” in a concerted effort to “promote equality between men and women“ and to “ensure the full integration of women in the total development effort,” the concern of the larger global community for outlawing sex-based discrimination is being articulated with increasing vigor. This concern both builds upon and expresses a more general norm of nondiscrimination which seeks to ban all generic differentiations among people in access to value shaping and sharing for reasons irrelevant to individual capabilities and contribution. The particular norm against sex-based discrimination finds expression in many authoritative communications, at both international and national levels, and is rapidly being defined in a way to condemn all the great historic deprivations imposed upon women as a group.

Over a quarter century after most of them arose, an agreement settling claims of the United States against Hungary was signed at Washington on March 6, 1973. Under its terms Hungary will pay a lump sum of $18,900,000 in settlement of the claims of the United States and its nationals arising out of war damage, nationalization of property, and certain financial debts. Like the Rumanian and Bulgarian lump sum agreements of 1960 and 1963, upon which it is modeled, the Hungarian Agreement constitutes a unique development in international claims practice, for it follows the “preadjudication” of most of the claims by the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (FCSC), a U.S. national claims commission acting pursuant to Title III of the International Claims Settlement Act. Although the claims against the three former Axis satellites now have been settled internationally, other preadjudicated claims under Titles III (Soviet Union), IV (Czechoslovakia), and V (Cuba and China) of the same act still remain outstanding. The present agreement, therefore, merits analysis not only in its own right, but also for what it reveals about the technique of preadjudication and the international claims settlement process generally.

Despite the many dramatic developments that have occurred over the past half dozen years in relation to the production of natural resources in some areas of the third world, mineral production in most developing countries is still carried out through contractual arrangements between foreign firms and host country governments. The nationalization of the copper industry in Chile and the bauxite industry in Guyana, the spectacular successes of OPEC, and the completed or projected nationalizations of petroleum operations in a number of countries have taken center stage since 1969. Nevertheless, these developments are not typical of the vast majority of mineral arrangements in developing countries.

The International Law Commission celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of its first session on May 27, 1974—a little behind the historical course of events, for the first session had actually opened on April 12, 1949. As was to be expected, the occasion called forth almost a floodtide of oratory recounting the achievements of the Commission in the codification of international law.

The correct identification of Mr. Herbert Brownell, the coauthor of “The Colorado River Salinity Problem with Mexico” appearing in the April 1975 issue of the Journal at page 255, is “Formerly Attorney General of the United States, 1953”1957.”