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does or does not belong to a racial, linguistic or religious
minority, are subject to no verification, dispute, pressure or
hindrance whatever on the part of the authorities ;
JUDGMENT No. 12.-UPPER
SILESIA (MINORITY SCHOOLS)
(3) that the Court is not called upon to give judgment
on that portion of the Applicant's submission according to
which any measure singling out the minority schools to their
detriment is incompatible with the equal treatment guaranteed
by Articles 65, 68, 72, paragraph z , and by the Preamble of
Division II of Part III of the Convention.
Done in English and French, the French text being authoritative, at the Peace Palace, The Hague, this twenty-sixth
day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, in three
copies, one of which is to be placed in the archives of the
Court, and the others to be forwarded to the Agents of the
applicant and respondent Parties respectively.
(Signed) D. ANZILOTTI,
President.
(Signed)
A. HAMMARSK
J OLD,.
Registrar.
M. Huber, Former President, M. Nyholm, Judge, M. Negulesco, Deputy-Judge, and M. Schücking, National Judge,
declaring that they are unable to concur in the judgment
given by the Court and availing themselves of the right
conferred on them by Article 57 of the Statute, have delivered
the separate opinions which f ollow hereaf ter.
(Initialled) D. A.
(Initialled)
A. H.