Advice and consent WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their to ratification. resolution of July 19, 1947, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said protocol; Ratification. WHEREAS the said protocol was duly ratified by the President of the United States of America on July 28, 1947, in pursuance of the afore- said advice and consent of the Senate; Ante. .1607. WHEREAS it is provided in Article 7 of the said protocol that the protocol shall come into force when twenty Governments parties to the Agreement of 1907, namely, the arrangement for the establish- ment of the International Office of Public Health signed at Rome on 35 Stat. 2061 . December 9, 1907, have become parties to the said protocol; Ante, p. 1606. WHEREAS it is provided by Article 6 of the said protocol that Governments may become parties to the protocol by (a) signature without reservation as to approval; (b) signature subject to approval followed by acceptance; or (c) acceptance, and that acceptance shall be effected by the deposit of a formal instrument with the Secretary- General of the United Nations; WHEnEAS the said protocol was signed without reservation as to approval on behalf of Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, the Byelo- russian Soviet Socialist Republic, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Finland, the Republic of the Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Siam, Transjordan, Turkey, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Deposit or instru- WmHRnaS in a notification dated April 16, 1948 the Secretary- General of the United Nations informed the Government of the United States of America'that formal instruments accepting the protocol were deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations by Canada on August 29, 1946, New Zealand on December 10, 1946, Iran on January 27, 1947, Switzerland on March 26, 1947, Italy on April 11, 1947, Ethiopia on April 11, 1947, Denmark on April 21, 1947, the Netherlands on April 25, 1947, Australia on May 8, 1947, the United States of America on August 7, 1947, Haiti on August 12, 1947, Norway on August 18, 1947, Sweden on August 28, 1947, Iraq on September 23, 1947, Ireland on October 20, 1947, Yugoslavia on November 19, 1947, Egypt on December 16, 1947, India on January 12, 1948, Czechoslovakia on March 1, 1948, Greece on March 12, 1948, the Union of South Africa on March 19, 1948, and Mexico on April 7, 1948; Entryintofor AND WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforesaid provision of Article 7 of the said protocol, the protocol came into force on October 20, 1947, the date on which the twentieth Government party to the said Agree- 35 Stat. 2061 . ment of 1907 became a party to the said protocol; 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 protocol to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith on and after October 20, 1947 by the United States of America and by the citizens [62 STAT. 1646 TREATIES
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