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 Ratifications ex- AND WHEREAS the said convention and protocol have been ratified on both parts, and the instruments of ratification of the two Govern- ments were exchanged at Paris on the thirtieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred forty-four; Antc, p.. AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article 27 of the said convention that the convention shall become effective on the first day of January following the exchange of the instruments of ratification; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the said convention and protocol to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and ful- filled with good faith by the United States of America and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons sub- Efectivedate. ject to the jurisdiction thereof on and from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred forty-five. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, 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 fifth day of January in the , [aiL year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: E R STETTINIUS Jr Secretary of State TREATIES [59 STAT.

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