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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. ARTICLE XXIII Agreement to e This Agreement shall be proclaimed by the President of the United proclaed,etc. States of America and shall be ratified by His Majesty the King. Entry into force. It shall enter definitively into force thirty days after the exchange of the instrument of ratification and a copy of the proclamation, which shall take place in London as soon as possible. ARTICLE XXIV tProvisionalnapepca- Pending the definitive coming into force of this Agreement as tion of designated ar- ticles. provided in Article XXIII, the provisions thereof other than those of Post, p. 9. Article XI and of Schedule III shall be applied provisionally on and after January 1, 1939, subject to a right to terminate the provisional application of the Agreement pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article XV and of Article XVIII. The provisional application of Article XI and of Schedule III shall be effected as to the several provisions thereof as soon as may be possible.' ARTICLE XXV Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article XV and of Article XVIII, this Agreement shall remain in force until December 31, 1941, and, unless at least six months before December 31, 1941, either High Contracting Party shall have given notice in writing to the other of intention to terminate the Agreement on that date, it shall remain in force thereafter until the expiration of six months from the date on which such notice shall have been given. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Agreement and have affixed hereto their seals. Done at the city of Washington, in duplicate, this seventeenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight. CORDELL HULL [SEAL] R. C. LINDSAY [SEAL] A. E. OVERTON. [SEAL] I [See footnotes to the respective territories Included In Schedule III.] Duration. Signatures. 1906

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