In which case Lord Atkin observed : “By exercising de facto administrative control or exercising effective administrative control’ I understand exercising all the functions of a sovereign Government…… It necessarily implies the ownership and control of property whether for military or civil purposes including vessels whether warship or merchant ships. In these circumstances, it seems to me that recognition of government as possessing all those attributes in a territory while not subordinate to any other Government in that territory is to recognize it as sovereign, and for the purpose of international law as a foreign state…… There is ample authority for the proposition that there is no difference for the present purpose between a recognition of a state de factor as opposed to de Jure……”