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 TREATIES 7U.S.a. §1100 et eq. Ante, p. 839. Ante, p. 940. Ante, p. 939. annexed to the said Agreement, namely, by Hungary on June 29, 1937, by Haiti on July 19, 1937, by the Republic of Cuba on August 31, 1937, by Poland on August 31, 1937, by the Netherlands on Sep- tember 4, 1937, and by Belgium on September 7, 1937, the said Agree- ment came into force provisionally as from September 1, 1937 in respect of the said Governments; AND WHEREAS, under authority of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America, known as the Sugar Act of 1937, approved September 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 903), under authority of that Act as amended, and under authority of certain other Acts of the Congress of the United States of America, the Government of the United States of America has taken measures for cooperation with other Govern- ments with a view to the international regulation of the production and marketing of sugar and has participated in the work of the Interna- tional Sugar Council established under the provisions of the said Agreement; AND WHEREAS it is provided further by Article 48 of the said Agreement that if at the date therein stated, namely, September 1, 1937, the instruments of ratification of all the signatories have not been deposited the Governments which have ratified the Agreement may decide to put it into force among themselves; AND WHEREAS it is provided by Article 50 of the said Agreement that, subject to the provisions of Article 51 (relating to the right of Contracting Governments to withdraw from the said Agreement in certain circumstances and subject to certain conditions), the Agree- ment shall remain in force for a period of five years from the date of its entry into force and shall not be subject to denunciation, and that the Contracting Governments shall decide at least six months before the expiration of the Agreement whether it shall be continued for a further period and, if so, on what terms, and further that in the event of unanimity not being attained the Governments which desire to maintain the Agreement shall be entitled to do so as between themselves; AND WHEREAS, in conformity to the provisions of Articles 48 and 50 of the said Agreement, a Protocol dated July 22, 1942, to enforce and to prolong after August 31, 1942, the International Agreement Regarding the Regulation of Production and Marketing of Sugar signed in London on May 6, 1937, was signed in London by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the United States of America (for the Government of the United States of America, and in respect of the Commonwealth of the Philippines), the Union of South Africa, the Commonwealth of Australia, Brazil, Belgium, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Republic of Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the original of which Protocol, in the English language, as certified by the Foreign Office of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in London, is word for word as follows: 948 [59 STAT.

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