1. On certain internal problems raised by State trading activity, see Katzarov, L’Etat commerçant, op. cit., p. 20 et seq.; M. Mireaux, La Gestion publique et la Gestion privée des Entreprises, Report by the French National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, 1928, p. 2 et seq.
2. Escarra, op. cit., p. 357; United Nations, Survey of International Law in relation to the work of the International Law Commission, Lake Success, 1948, pp. 31–32; F. Haussmann, op. cit., p. 3.
3. In the case of France, M. Byé, op. cit., Le Conflit des Tendances, pp. 7–8: “The Schumann inventory brings out that the number of public trading and industrial establishments and semi-public companies with a State majority holding, which at the end of 1935 was 11, reached 31 in August, 1944, and went up to 103 at 1st December, 1945.” According to M. Pellenc, the Budget rapporteur to the French Senate, there were 224 nationalised undertakings in 1956, which themselves had subsidiaries (Tribune de Genève, No. 106, 7th May, 1957).
4. S.N. Bratus, The Subjects of Civil Law (in Russian), Moscow, 1950, pp. 93–94;
5. S.N. Bratus, The Subjects of Civil Law (in Russian), Moscow, 1950, p. 35.