Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 54 Part 2.djvu/675

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1896 19 V. . .C.§ 1351- 1354; Supp. V , §§ 1351- 1352. Ante, p. 107. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. [SUPPLEMENTARY PROCLAMATION] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, by my proclamation of April 5, 1939, I did make public the Trade Agreement, including two Schedules annexed thereto, which, pursuant to Section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 of the Congress of the United States of America, as amended by the Act of June 12, 1934, entitled "AN ACT To amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48 Stat. 943), which amending act was extended by Joint Resolution of Congress approved March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24), I entered into on April 1, 1939 with the President of the Turkish Republic, in order that the said agreement including the said Schedules and two Notes incor- porated in the said proclamation should be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof provisionally on and from May 5, 1939 and definitively on and from the day on which the Government of the United States of America should have communicated my aforesaid proclamation officially to the Government of the Turkish Republic and the Government of the Turkish Republic on its part should have informed the Government of the United States of America of the ratification of the agreement by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as provided for in Article 16 of the agreement; AND WHEREAS, as provided for in Article 16 of the aforesaid trade agreement, the Government of the United States of America was officially notified by the Government of the Turkish Republic on September 9, 1939 of the ratification of the agreement by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on June 20, 1939, and the proclama- tion of the said agreement by the President of the United States of America executed on April 5, 1939 was communicated officially to the Government of the Turkish Republic on November 20, 1939. Now, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, supplementing my said proclamation of April 5, 1939 do hereby make known and proclaim that the said trade agreement, including the two schedules annexed thereto and the two notes aforesaid, came into force definitively on November 20, 1939; wherefore, I do hereby call upon the United States of America and all the citizens thereof to observe and fulfill the said agreement with good faith definitively on and from that date. 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 thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty- [SEAL] nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State.