Uruguay: PEDRO MANINI Ríos, EUGENIO MARTÍNEZ THEDY, ABALCÁZAR GARCÍA, JULIO CÉSAR CERDEIRAS ALONSO, GERVASIO POSADAS BELGRANO. Guatemala: CARLOS SALAZAR, José A. MEDRANO, ALFONSO CARRILLO. Nicaragua: LUIS MANUEL DEBAYLE, République Dominicaine: MAX HENRÍQUEZ UREÑA, Colombie: JORGE SOTO DEL CORRAL, ROBERTO URDANETA ARBELÁEZ, Panama: HARMODIO ARIAS M., JULIO J. FABREGA, Etats-Unis D'Amérique: CORDELL HULL, SUMNER WELLES, ALEXANDER W. WEDDELL, ADOLPH A. BERLE, Jr., ALEXANDER F. WHITNEY, CHARLES G. FENWICK, MICHAEL FRANCIS DOYLE, ELISE F. MUSSER. Chili: MIGUEL CRUCHAGA TOCORNAL, LUIS BARROS BORGONO, FÉLIX NIETO DEL RÍO, RICARDO MONTANER BELLO. Equateur: HUMBERTO Albornoz, ANTONIO PONS, JOSÉ GABRIEL NAVARRO, FRANCISCO GUARDERAS. Bolivie: ENRIQUE FINOT, DAVID ALVÉSTEGUI, CARLOS ROMERO. Deposit of ratification subject to a AND WHEREAS the said Convention has been duly ratified on the part of the United States of America and the instrument of ratification declaration. was deposited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic on the 25th day of August, 1937, subject to a declaration, made a part of such ratification, as follows: "The United States of America holds that the reservations to this Convention do not constitute an amendment to the text, but that such reservations, interpretations, and definitions by separate governments are solely for the benefit of such respective governments and are not intended to be controlling upon the United States of America." Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, subject to the declaration aforesaid. 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 sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty[SEAL] seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Proclamation. December 23, 1936 [T. S. No. 927] Convention on the Pan American Highway, between the United States of America and other American Republics. Signed at Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936; ratification advised by the Senate, June 29, 1937; ratified by the President, July 15, 1937; ratification of the United States of America deposited with the Pan American Union at Washington, July 29, 1937; proclaimed, September 16, 1937. Convention on the Pan American Highway. Preamble. Texts. Purpose. Plenipotentiaries. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a Convention on the Pan American Highway was signed at Buenos Aires on December 23, 1936, by the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and the twenty other American Republics represented at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, a true copy of which Convention, in the English, Spanish, Portuguese and French languages, is word for word as follows: 1 CONVENTION ON THE PAN AMERICAN HIGHWAY The Governments represented at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Cognizant of the fact that the primary purpose of the Inter-American Conference is the strengthening of the bonds of friendship already existing between the countries of this Continent; Convinced that direct and material contact between the American peoples necessarily would strengthen those bonds, consolidating therefore the peace of the Continent; Knowing that the general welfare will be greater when there is greater facility for the exchange of the products of said countries; Considering, finally, that one of the most adequate and efficient means for the attainment of the moral and material end aimed at jointly by the American Republics, is the termination of a highway which establishes a permanent communication between their respective territories, Have decided to conclude a convention on that subject and for such purpose, have appointed the following plenipotentiaries: Argentina: CARLOS SAAVEDRA LAMAS, MIGUEL ANGEL CÁRCANO, FELIPE A. ESPIL, LEOPOLDO MELO, ISIDORO RUIZ MORENO, DANIEL ANTOKOLETZ, CARLOS BREBBIA, CÉSAR DÍAZ CISNEROS. 1 The texts follow literally the certified copy of the convention furnished by the Argentine Government.-The editor. |