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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-PEACE WITH HUNGARY-FEB. 10, 1947 WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their resolution of June 5, 1947, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said Treaty; WHEREAS the said Treaty was duly ratified by the President of the United States of America on June 14, 1947, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate; WHEREAS it is provided in Article 42 of the said Treaty that the Treaty shall come into force immediately upon the deposit with the Government'bf the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of ratifications by the United States of America, by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; WHEREAS instruments of ratification were deposited with the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on September 15, 1947 by the United States of America, by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; AND WHEREAS an instrument of ratification was also deposited with the Govern- ment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on September 15, 1947 by Hungary; 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 Treaty of Peace with Hungary to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith, on and after September 15, 1947, 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, and do hereby further proclaim that the state of war between the United States of America and Hungary terminated on September 15, 1947. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have caused the Seal of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-seven and of the Independ- ence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-second. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ROBERT A LOVETr Acting Secretary of State 2227

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