Proclamation. Now, THEBEFORE, 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 accompanying protocol, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof, subject to the reservation and understandings hereinbefore recited, 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 twelfth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-nine and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-third. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ROBERT A LovE'r Acting Secretary of State Note in the English and Chinese Languages from the American Ambassador to the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs AMERICAN EMBASSY, No. 935 Nanking, November 29, 1948 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to Article XXVII of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of China signed at Nanking on November 4, Aite, p. 1321. 1946 and to the recent conversations between representatives of our two Governments regarding the applicability of the provisions of the aforesaid Treaty to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. In view of the special relationship established with respect to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by the Trusteeship Agreement approved by the Security Council of the United Nations on April 2, 1947, [1] the Government of the United States of America proposes that: (1) the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation be- tween the United States of America and the Republic of China, signed Ate, p. M9. at Nanking on November 4, 1946, shall not apply to the Trust Terri- tory of the Pacific Islands except to the extent that the President of the United States of America shall by proclamation extend the provi- sions of the Treaty to such Trust Territory; (2) the provisions of the Treaty according treatment no less favorable than the treatment accorded to any third country shall not apply to advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America or its territories and possessions, irrespective of any change in their political status, to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 'U. N. doc. S/318. 1384 TREATIES [63 STAT.
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