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 2272 Duration. Signatures. Ratifloation I exchanged. Proclamation. Exchange of Notes. Note from Secretary of State to French Ambassador. ARBITRATION TREATY-FRANCE. FEBRUARY 6, 1928. effect on the date of the exchange of the ratifications. It shall there- after remain in force continuously unless and until terminated by one yaar's written notice given by either High Contracting Party to the other. In faith thereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this treaty in duplicate in the English and French languages, both texts having equal force, and hereunto affix their seals. Done at Washington the sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight. effet a la date de l'khange des ratifications. n restera ensuite en vigueur sans limite de duree. Toutefois il pourra ~tre denonce par l'une ou-}'autre des Hautes Parties Contractantes et dans ce cas il cessera ses effets A l'expira- tion du delai d'un an a dater de la denonciation. Eu foi de quoi les pIenipoten- tiaires respectifs ont signe Ie present traite dresse en deux ex- emplaires, l'un et l'autre en an- glais et en franQais, les deux textes faisant ~alement foi, et y ont appose leurs cachets. Fait a Washington, Ie six du mois de Fevrier, mil neuf cent vingt-huit. ROBERT E. OLDS [SEAL] CLAUDEL [SEAL] AND WHEREAS the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged m the city of W asbington on the twenty-second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Herbert Hoover, Presi- dent of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the scal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-second day of April in the year of our LOrd one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-third. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER [EXCHANGE 01' NOTES] ExCELLENCY: [The Secretary 0/ State to the French Ambaaaador] DEPARTMENT 01' STATE Waahington, March 1, 19SB. rri!:t 1~!Jf\~: As you are aware it was not the intention or desire of the Government of the Treatr191. United States that the new Arbitration Treaty, which was proposed to your . Government last December and signed on February 6, 1928, should be held to affect in Any way the provisions of the Treaty for the Advancement of Peace Vol. 38, p. 1887. signed by France and the United States on September 15, 1914, and I have understood that the Government of the French Republic was in accord with the Government of the United States on this point. In order to prevent the possibility of any future misunderstanding, howeverl I desire formally to state that in the opinion of the Government of the Unitea States the prOVISions of the Arbitration Treaty signed February 6, 1928, do not in the slightest degree affect or modify the provisions of the Tl'~aty signed September 15, 1914. I should be glad to receive a note from you confirming