59 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-SUGAR- Jy 22, 1942; Aug. 31, 1944 951 AND WHEREAS the said Protocol was signed on July 22, 1942 for the Governments of the United States of America (including the Com- monwealth of the Philippines), the Union of South Africa, the Com- monwealth of Australia, Belgium, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Republic of Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Netherlands, Peru, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and on August 28, 1942, in conformity to Article 3 of the said Protocol, for the Governments of Brazil and Portugal; AND WHEREAS it is provided by Article 1 of the said Protocol dated Ante, p. 9 49. July 22, 1942 that the said Agreement shall be regarded as having come into force on September 1, 1937 in respect of the Governments signatories of the said Protocol, and by Article 2 of the said Protocol that after August 31, 1942 the said Agreement shall continue in force among the said Governments for a period of two years from that date; AND WHEREAS a Protocol dated August 31, 1944, to prolong after ima. August 31, 1944, the International Agreement Regarding the Regu- lation of Production and Marketing of Sugar signed in London on May 6, 1937, as enforced and prolonged by the said Protocol dated Ante,p.949 . July 22, 1942, was signed in London by the respective Plenipotenti- aries of the Governments of the United States of America (for the Government of the United States of America with a reservation "Sub- jec.t to ratification", and in respect of the Commonwealth of the Philippines), the Union of South Africa, the Commonwealth of Aus- tralia, Belgium, Brazil, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Republic of Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Domin- ican Republic, Haiti, the Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Poland, the original of which Protocol, in the English language, as certified by the Foreign Office of the Gov- ernment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire- land in London, is word for word as follows: PROTOCOL. WHEREAS an International Agreement regarding the Regulation of Ant, p. 922 the Production and Marketing of Sugar (hereinafter referred to as "the Agreement") was signed in London on the 6th May, 1937; And whereas by a Protocol signed in London on the 22nd July, Ante . 949 . 1942, the Agreement was regarded as having come into force on the 1st September, 1937, in respect of the Governments signatory of the Protocol; And whereas it was provided in the said Protocol that the Agreement should continue in force between the said Governments for a period of two years after the 31st August, 1942; Now, therefore, the Governments signatory of the present Protocol, considering that it is expedient that the Agreement should be prolonged for a further term as between themselves, subject, in view of the pre- sent emergency, to the conditions stated below, have agreed as follows:-
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