 In "an extreme circumstance of self defense, in which the very survival of a State would be at stake", the Court finds that international law and hence the Court have nothing to say.After many months of agonizing appraisal of the law, the Court discovers that there is none.When it comes to the supreme interests of State, the Court discards the legal progress of the twentieth century, puts aside the provisions of the Charter of the United Nation of which it is "the principal judicial organ", and proclaims in terms redolent of "Realpolitik" its ambivalence about the most important provisions of modern international law.