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1 created, and the stage of their developments’.1 In the second case,
i that of the Rights of the United States Nationals in Morocco (1952), the
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International Court of Justice accepted the principle that ‘Morocco,
even under the Protectorate, has retained its personality as a State in
International Law’.2 As regards the Treaty of Fez of 1912, establishing
the Protectorate over Morocco, the Court was of the opinion that
1 this was an ‘international instrument’ which was internationally
binding.3 Moreover the Court held that treaties concluded by the
protected State, before the establishment of the protectorate, with the
other States, did not lose their binding force internationally as a
result of the establishment of the protectorate.4
1 P.C.I.J. Series B, No. 4 (1923), p. 24. * I.C.J. Reports, 1952, pp. 185-8.
3 Ibid. 4 P.C.I.J., op. cit., pp. 27-9.
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