• India's Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar was the first President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council?

Facts on topics related to Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar

International Court of Justice

• in Medellín v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent an act of Congress or Constitutional authority, the U.S. President lacks the power to enforce decisions of the International Court of Justice?
• when Britain took the dispute over the sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina declined to cooperate?

League of Nations

• Muhammad Habibullah was India's delegate to the first session of the League of Nations in 1919?
• in 1925 the Labour and Socialist International urged the League of Nations to accept the Rif Republic as a member?
• the Little Treaty of Versailles was the first of several Minority Treaties, and Poland's renouncing of it was the deathblow to the League of Nations' ethnic minority-protection regime?
• the first stamps of Palestine (Rachel's tomb stamp, pictured) under the British Mandate were trilingual, due to a League of Nations requirement?