62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE-MAR. 30, 1946 WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their tortifi c atosent Resolution of August 2, 1946, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said protocol; WHEREAS the said protocol was duly ratified on behalf of the United Ratification. States of America (including Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) by the President of the United States of America on August 28, 1946, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate; WHEREAS it is provided by section 2 of Article VI of the said Ante, p . 1s84. protocol that the protocol shall come into force upon its acceptance in respect to at least thirty-five governments members of the In- ternational Institute of Agriculture; WHEREAS it is provided further by section 2 of Article VI of the said protocol that such acceptance shall be effected by (a) signature without reservation in regard to ratification, or (b) deposit of an instrument of ratification in the archives of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations by governments on behalf of which the said protocol is signed with a reservation in regard to ratification, or (c) notice of accession; WHEREAS the said protocol was signed without reservation in regard to ratification on behalf of Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, San Marino, Siam, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Uruguay; WHEREAS instruments of ratification of the said protocol were Deposit of Instru- deposited with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United " ofratificat l on. Nations by the United States of America on February 10, 1947, Egypt on October 13, 1947, Turkey on October 25, 1947, Nicaragua on November 15, 1947, Czechoslovakia on January 28, 1948, and Italy on January 29, 1948; AND WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforesaid provision of section 2 of Entry Into fore. Article VI of the said protocol, the protocol came into force on Janu- ary 28, 1948, the date of the thirty-fifth acceptance of the protocol by governments members of the International Institute of Agriculture; Now, THEREFORE, be it known, that I, Harry S. Truman, President Proclation of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the said protocol to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith on and after January 28, 1948 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. 1591
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