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 TREATY-RENUNCIATION OF WAR. AUGUST 27, 1928. Trudy between the United State8 and other Powers providing jor the renunciat'ion oj war as an instrument of national policy. Signed at Paris, August 27, 1928; ratification ailvised by tM Senate, January 15, 1929; ratified by the President, January 17, 1929; instrument8 oj ratification deposited at Washington by the United States oj America, Austraha, Dominion oj Oanada, Ozechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain, India, Irish Free State, Italy, New Zealand, and Union oj South Ajrica, March 2, 1929: By Poland, March 25, 1929; by Belgium, March 27, 1929; by France, April 22, 1929; by Japan, July 24, 1929; proclaimed, July 24, 1929. By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. 2343 August'rT, 1028. WHEREAS a Treaty between the President of the United States .International renUIJ fA. hP'd fhGR'hH'M. h Kin Clatlonofwar. o menca, t e reSI ent 0 t e erman elc, IS a]esty- t e g Preamble. of the Belgians, the.President of the French Republic, HIS Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions bey<?nd the Seas, Emperor of India, His Majesty the Kin~ of Italy, His Maj- esty the Emperor of Japan, the President of the Republic of Poland, and the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, providing for the renun~iation of war ~ an ins~ent of. nation~ J.>olicy, was ~oncluded and SIgned by theIr respective Plempotentlanes at Pans on the twenty-seventh day of Au~t, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, the original of which Treaty, being in the English and French languages, is word for-word as follows: LE PRtSIDENT DU REICH AI.. - THE PRESIDENT OF' THE GER- Contracting Powers, LEMAND, LE PRtS1DENT DES MAN REICl!t THE PRESIDENT ~TATS-UNIS D'AM:ERIQUE SA OF THE U.NITED STATES OF MAJEST:E LE ROI DES BELGES, AMERICA, HIS MAJESTY THE LE PRtSIDENT DE LA R:EPU- KING OF THE BELGIANS THE BLIQUE FRANCAISE, SA MA- PRESIDENT OF THE }t'RENCH JES'1':E LE ROr DE GRANDE- REPUBLIC HIS MAJESTY THE BRETAGNE, D'IRLANDE ET DES KING OF GREAT BRITAIN~ IRE- TERRITOIRES BRITANNIQUES LAND AND THE BRITIS.l1. DO- AU DEL! DES MERSL,EMPER"EUR MINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, . DESINDES,SAMAJJ!jST~LEROI EMPER0R 0FINDIA D'ITALIE, SA MAJEST~ L'EM- HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PEREUR DU JAPON LE PR:ESI. ITALYJ,. HIS MAJESTY THE DENT DE LA Rt'PifBLIQUE DE EMPE.ttOR OF JAPAN THE POLOGN~J LE PdSIDENT DE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC LA R:EPuBLIQUE TCH~COSLO- OF POLAND,t THE PRESIDENT VAQUE, OF THE C~ECHOSLOVAK RE- PUBLIC, Ayant Ie sentiment profond du devoir solennel qui leur incombe de developper Ie bien-~tre de l'humanite ; Persuades que Ie moment est venu de proceder a une franche renonciatIOn a la ~erre comme instrument de politlque nationale afin que les relations pacifiques et amicales existant actuellement en- tre leurs peuples puissant ~tre perpetueesj Deeply sensible of their solemn Duty declared. duty to promote the welfare of mankind; Persuaded that the time has Renunciation of WIll • • as a national polic1. come when a frank renunCIatIOn of war as an instrument of na- tional policy should be made to the end that the peaceful and friendly relations now existing between their peoples may be perpetuated;