Docket No. 594: Edmond Barchard
…s it was unavoidable that the American Government turned over more than 12,000 claims unexamined and uncontrolled to the American Agency acting before this Commission, it is not the discretion of the American Government but the but the discretion of the American Agent which causes a claim to be presented to this Commission. This discretion, though carefully and diligently applied, can have no effect on the legal status of a case and on the decisio…