Abstract
When a State takes away foreign-owned property without adequate compensation such State violates a well-established rule of International Law. Obviously, in most cases the State concerned will plead some more or less genuine motive tending to justify its action or, at least, to reduce the amount of compensation due to the former owners. Such pleas may vary widely—they may range from the inevitability of large-scale social reforms to allegations of criminal conduct perpetrated or planned by the former owners. Yet, there seem to exist certain fashions even in this field. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain, why Cuba has followed Indonesia in attempting to justify its confiscations of foreign property as a resort to “reprisals.” The success which Indonesia obtained with this plea does not appear to be so convincing as to invite imitation.
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