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 59STAT.] MULTILATERAL-SUGAR- May 6, 1937 953 59 STAT] ULTLATERAUAR-July 22, 1942; Aug. 31, 1944 For the Government of Czechoslovakia: DR. V. JANSA. For the Government of the Dominican Republic: R. PEREZ-ALFONSECA. For the Government of Haiti: JOHN G. WINANT. For the Government of the Netherlands: E. TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS. For the Government of Peru: F. BERCKEMEYER. For the Government of Portugal: PALMELLA. For the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: F. GOUSEV. For the Government of the United States of America: JOHN G. WINANT Subject to ratification. (In respect of the Commonwealth of the Philippines): JOHN G. WINANT. For the Government of Poland: Z. MERDINGER. Certified a true copy. LSEAL] J. F. FRENCH LONDON Acting Librarianand Keeper of the Papersfor -7 Oct 1944 the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article 5 of the said Protocol that it shall bear the date of August 31, 1944, and shall remain open for signature until September 30, 1944, provided however that any signa- tures appended after August 31, 1944, shall be deemed to have effect as from that date; AND WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their Resolution of December 6 (legislative day of November 21), 1944, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said Protocol dated August 31, 1944; AND WHEREAS the commitments of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under the said Protocol dated August 31, 1944, and the authority of the President of the Philippines to enforce the terms, provisions, and restrictions of the said Agreement of May 6, 1937, as enforced and prolonged by the said Protocol dated July 22, 1942, and as A nt e, p. 949 prolonged by the said Protocol dated August 31, 1944, have been duly confirmed; 66347°- 47 -PT. II 18

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