Weston Banking Corp. v. Turkiye Garanti Bankasi, A.S.

The International Monetary Fund (Bretton Woods) Agreement of 1945 (60 US Stat 1401, TIAS 1501) to which the United States and Turkey are signatories, the mandate of section 11 of the Bretton *328Woods Agreements Act (59 US Stat 516; US Code, tit 22, § 286b) that “the first sentence of article VIII, section 2(b), of the Articles of Agreement of the Fund * * * shall have full force and effect in the United States”, the legislative history of that Congressional enactment,1 the supremacy clause of the United States Constitution2 and the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Kolovrat v Oregon…