TREATMENT OF FOREIGNERS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 56, 29 November 1929, Page 11

TREATMENT OF FOREIGNERS

THE PARIS CONVENTION BROAD LINES INDICATED (Rec. November 28, 9.30 p.m.) Paris, November 28. It is now possible to indicate the broad lines the treatment of foreigners tlie convention will take by a survey of thoso draft- articles awaiting the final approval of the conference. These indicate that the convention will embody all the guarantees to be afforded on the basis of reciprocity by any one State to the nationals of other States, whether they be natural born or naturalised after being permitted to establish themselves in the territory of the latter States. These guarantees, which apply not only to the exercise of all economic activities, but also to civil and legal rights to the acquisition, preservation and transmission of property and interests of all kinds to charges of a fiscal character, both exceptional and normal, considered to constitute a complete codification of the law of establishment, having regard to the various national disparities and conceptions of the law and international practice. It has been generally agreed throughout the discussions that most-favoured nations treatment in the past has led to differentiation and uncertainty, and an outstanding feature of the convention will be the freedom permitted to States regarding the admission of foreigners and the right to expel undesirables. The conference is now sitting from 9 o’clock in the morning till midnight, and yet there remain many important questions to be decided.