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 1132 Treaty of 1914 con- sidered part of present treaty; exceptions. Ratification. Effective date; du- ration. Termination in re- spect of Union of South Africa. TREATIES [55 STAT. ARTIaL III Except as provided in Articles I, II and IV of the present Treaty the stipulations of the said Treaty of September 15, 1914, shall be considered as an integral part of the present Treaty and shall be ob- served and fulfilled by the United States of America and the Union of South Africa as if all such stipulations were literally herein embodied. ARnTCLE IV The present Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof and by His Majesty in respect of the Union of South Africa. It shall take effect on the date of the exchange of the ratifications which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible. It shall continue in force for a period of five years; and it shall thereafter remain in force until twelve months after one of the High Contracting Parties has given notice to the other of an intention to terminate it. On the termination of the present Treaty the said Treaty of Sep- tember 15, 1914, shall in respect of the Union of South Africa cease to have effect. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed their seals thereto. Done in duplicate at the City of Washington this second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and forty. CORDELL HULL [SEAL] RALPH W. CLOSE [SEAL] AND WHnERE the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington on the eleventh day of March one thousand nine hundred and forty-one; Now, TEIREPFRE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 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 of America and the citizens thereof. IN TESrIMONY WHREO I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DoNE at the city of Washington this eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty- [SEAL] one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: COMBDEL HULL Secretary of State.

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