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 INTER-AMERICAN-MAINTENANCE OF PEACE-DECEMBER 23, 1936 Convention for the maintenance, preservation, and reestablishment of peace, between the United States of America and other American Republics. Signed at Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936; ratification advised by the Senate, June 29, 1937; ratified by the President, July 15, 1937; ratification of the United States of America deposited with the Government of Argentina, August 25, 1937; proclaimed, Septem- ber 16, 1937. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a Convention for the Maintenance, Preservation and Reestablishment of Peace was signed at Buenos Aires on December 23, 1936, by the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and the twenty other American Republics represented at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, a true copy of which Convention, in the English, Spanish, Portuguese and French languages, is word for word as follows:' CONVENTION FOR THE MAINTENANCE, PRESERVATION AND REESTABLISHMENT OF PEACE The Governments represented at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, CONSIDERING: That according to the statement of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States, to whose lofty ideals the meeting of this Conference is due, the measures to be adopted by it "would advance the cause of world peace, inasmuch as the agreements which might be reached would supplement and reinforce the efforts of the League of Nations and of all other existing or future peace agencies in seeking to prevent war"; That every war or threat of war affects directly or indirectly all civilized peoples and endangers the great principles of liberty and justice which constitute the American ideal and the standard of American international policy; That the Treaty of Paris of 1928 (Kellogg-Briand Pact) has been accepted by almost all the civilized states, whether or not members of other peace organizations, and that the Treaty of Non-Aggression and Conciliation of 1933 (Saavedra Lamas Pact signed at Rio de Janeiro) has the approval of the twenty-one American Republics represented in this Conference, I The texts follow literally the certified copy of the convention furnished by the Argentine Government.-The editor. December 23, 1938 [T. S. No. 9221 Inter-American convention for the maintenance, preser- vation, and reestab- lishment of peace. Preamble. Texts. 46 Stat. 2343 . 49 Stat. 3363 . 15

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