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 fAdvteeand onsent WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their resolution of July 21, 1949, two-thirds of the Senators present con- curring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said Treaty; Ratification. WHEREAS the said Treaty was duly ratified by the President of the United States of America on July 25, 1949, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate; Ante, p. 2246. WHEREAS it is provided in Article 11 of the said Treaty that the Treaty shall enter into force between the states which have ratified it as soon as the ratifications of the majority of the signatories, includ- ing the ratifications of Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, have been deposited; Deposit of instru- WHEREAS instruments of ratification were deposited with the ments of ratification. Government of the United States of America on May 3, 1949 by Canada; on June 7, 1949 by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; on June 16, 1949 by the Kingdom of Belgium; on June 27, 1949 by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; on July 8, 1949 by the Kingdom of Norway; on July 25, 1949 by the United States of America; on August 1, 1949 by Iceland; on August 12, 1949 by the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and on August 24, 1949 by the Kingdom of Denmark, France, Italy, and Portugal; Enty into foree. AND WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforesaid provisions of Article 11 of the said Treaty, the Treaty entered into force on August 24, 1949; 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 North Atlantic Treaty to the end that the same and each and every article and clause thereof shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith, on and after August 24, 1949 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 caused the Seal of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty- [SEAL] nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-fourth. HARRY S. TRUMAN. By the President: DEAN ACHESON Secretary of State 2252 [63 STAT. TREATIES

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