JUDGMENT No. 12.-UPPER de ce genre sera, si l'autre Partie le demande,, déféré à la Cour permanente de Justice. La décision de la Cour permanente sera sans appel et aura la même force et valeur qu'une décision rendue en vert u de l'article 13 du Pacte. SILESIA (MINORITY SCHOOLS) 19 des Nations. Le Gouvernement polonais agrée que tout différend de ce genre sera, si l'autre Partie le demande, déféré à la Cour permanente de Justice. La décision de la Cour permanente sera sans appel et aura la même force. et valeur qu'une décision rendue en vertu de l'article 13 du Pacte. Relying on paragraph 3 of this article, according to the terms of which any State being a Member of the Council of the League of Nations has the right to bring before the Court any dispute "as to questions of law or fact arising out of these articles" (that is to Say, the articles which in Division 1 precede Article 72 ; see Annex), the German Government has, in its Application and in its Case, formulated the submission the terms of which have been reproduced above. This submission would seem to comprise three contentions the first two of which must be taken together and are, in the light of the discussions which have taken place before the Council of the League of Nations, designed to obtain from the Court a statement in accordance with the contention formulated before the Council by the German representative, namely, "that even a child which knows no language but Polish must be allowed admission to the minority school", and "that the decision as to which school the child is to attend depends solely upon its parents' wishes, irrespective of the language spoken by the child". The contentions comprised in the Gernian Government's submission appear to be as follows : (1) Articles 74, 106 and 131 of the Geneva Convention establish the unfettered liberty of any person to declare, according to his own conscience and on his own persona1 responsibility, that he does or does not belong to a racial, linguistic or religious minority, subject to no verification, dispute, pressure or hindrance in any form whatsoever on the part of the authorities. (2) The above-mentioned articles also established the unfettered liberty of any person to choose the language of 3