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 Ante, p. 97. WHEREAS it is provided in Article XXI of the said convention that the convention shall come into force as soon as it has been signed or acceded to on behalf of ten or more governments; WHEREAS the said convention was signed on or before January 15, 1945 by the respective plenipotentiaries of France, Poland, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, China, the Union of South Africa, Nicaragua, Luxembourg, Ecuador, Greece, Honduras, and Haiti without any reservation with respect to ratification; WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforesaid provision of Article XXI of the said convention, the convention came into force on January 15, 1945 in respect of the aforementioned eleven countries on behalf of which the convention had been signed without any reservation with respect to ratification; AND WHEREAS the said convention was duly ratified on behalf of the Government of the United States of America on May 29, 1945, and the instrument of ratification of the said Government was de- posited on that same day in the archives of the United States of America; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the said convention 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 by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof, on and after May 29, 1945. 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 twenty-ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [SEAL] forty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred sixty-ninth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JOSEPH C. GREW Acting Secretary of State 990 TREATIES [59 STAT.

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