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 c HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEN ACHE8ON Secretary of State The American Ambassador to the ItalianMinisterof ForeignAffairs F. o. No. 827 RoME, Februaryf, 1948 EXCELuNCT: I have the honor to refer to the proposals advanced by representa- tives of your Government, during the course of negotiations for the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation signed this day, for facilitating and expanding the cultural relations between the peoples of our two countries. c Ante, p. 2255. 2304 TREATIES [63 STAT. fdvie and consent WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America, by their resolution of June 2, 1948, two-thirds of the Senators present con- curring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said treaty, together with the protocol and the additional protocol relating thereto; Ratification. WHEREAS the said treaty and the said protocol and additional pro- tocol were duly ratified by the President of the United States of America on June 16, 1949, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate, and have been duly ratified on the part of the Italian Republic; xcanSge of ratifa. WmHEEAS the respective instruments of ratification of the said treaty and the said protocol and additional protocol were duly exchanged at Rome on July 26, 1949; Ante, p. 4. AND WHERS it is provided in Article XXVII of the said treaty that the treaty shall enter into force on the day of the exchange of ratifications, and it is provided in the said protocol and additional protocol that the provisions thereof shall be considered integral parts of the said treaty; Proclamation. 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 and the said protocol and additional protocol to the end that the same and each 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. 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 August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-nine [SEaL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-fourth.

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