paragraph 400 in volume 3, chapter 29, The Court’s Extrajudicial Function
The Agreement of 27 August 1925 between the Government of Greece and the Société Commerciale de Belgique appears to be an early instance of a private-law contract between a government and a foreign commercial undertaking containing an arbitration clause which provides for the appointment of the third arbitrator, if necessary, by the President of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (sic).1 Not much time passed before the clause was invoked. In December, 1925, the two parties -…