Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 59 Part 2.djvu/257

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TREATIES May 6, 1937, July 22, 1942, and Aug. 31, 1944 [T. 8.9901 Agreement and protocol between the United States of America and other powers respecting regulation of production and marketing of sugar. Signed at London May 6, 1937; ratification advised by the Senate of the United States of America, subject to a reservation, De- cember 20, 19S7; ratified by the President of the United States of America, subject to said reservation, March 22, 1938: ratification de- posited April 4, 1938; proclaimedby the Presidentof the United States of America April 20, 1945; effective September 1, 1937. Protocol en- forcing and prolongingthe agreement signed at London July 22, 1942; proclaimed by the Presidentof the United States of America April 20, 1945. And additional protocol signed at London August S1, 1944; ratificationadvised by the Senate of the United States of America De- cember 6, 1944; ratified by the Presidentof the United States of Amer- ica March 9, 1946; ratification deposited April 13, 1945; proclaimed by the Presidentof the United States of America April 20, 1945. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS an International Agreement Regarding the Regulation of Production and Marketing of Sugar and a protocol annexed thereto concerning transitional measures were signed in London on May 6, 1937, by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the United States of America (for the Government of the United States of America with a separate statement, and in respect of the Common- wealth of the Philippines), the Union of South Africa, the Common- wealth of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, China, the Republic of Cuba, Czech- oslovakia, the Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Haiti, Hun- gary, India, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland (with a reservation of the right to accede on behalf of the Free City of Danzig), Portugal, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (with an understanding that provisions of the Agreement "which in any manner refer to internal production do not apply to t]fe U.S.S .R ."), and Yugoslavia, the originals of which Agreement and protocol, in the English language, as certified by the Foreign Office of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in London, are word for word as follows: 922 [59 STAT.