paragraph 401 in volume 3, chapter 29, The Court’s Extrajudicial Function
Quite early in its history the Permanent Court was approached by a Dutch firm to see if it would accept a mission to appoint the third arbitrator under a contract which that firm was negotiating with an American industrial concern - the proposed clause itself also being communicated to the Registrar. The Registrar replied that, in his opinion, though the Court, as such, might consider that the mission fell outside th…