Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases 1927-1928

"THE FACTS.-(See Cases Nos. 68, 70, 72, 75.) The claim of the United States to sovereignty over the Island of Palmas was based principally on the fact of the discovery of that island early in the sixteenth century by Spain, from whom the United States claimed to have acquired the title over the island by cession in the Treaty of Paris of 10 December, 1898."