UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SFP 24 1937 Treaty on the prevention of controversies.. Inter-American treaty on good offices and mediation Convention concerning the use of broadcasting in the cause of peace Procès-verbal relating to the rules of submarine warfare set forth in Treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States whereby article VIII of the boundary treaty concluded between the two countries on December 30, 1853, is terminated. HUMANITARIAN-Continued HEALTH Page International sanitary convention for aerial navigation (Treaty Series, 9 OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS International convention for the suppression of the circulation of and traffic in obscene publications. 10 SAFETY Amendment to the international convention for promoting safety of life at sea 10 ECONOMIC AGRICULTURE International agreement regarding the regulation of production and marketing of sugar, and protocol AVIATION Convention relating to the regulation of aerial navigation COMMERCE 13 13 Protocol on arbitration clauses in commercial matters 14 14 Reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Brazil (Executive Agreement Series, No. 82) 14 Reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Costa 15 Agreement between the United States and Japan concerning cotton piece goods . . 16 COPYRIGHT Convention on literary and artistic copyright (Treaty Series, No. 593). FINANCE Convention and protocol between the United States and France Laws on Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Cheques. Convention for the regulation of the meshes of fishing nets and the Convention between the United States and Canada for the protection, Convention between the United States and Canada for the preserva- Agreement relating to a uniform system of maritime buoyage, and PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL BILATERAL TREATIES OF ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION Colombia-Mexico The American Embassy at Mexico City reported by a despatch dated July 16, 1937, that on July 1, 1937, ratifications were exchanged at the Foreign Office of the treaty of arbitration between Mexico and Colombia, signed on July 11, 1928. The treaty provides that all questions which cannot be settled through diplomatic channels and which do not involve the independence or the sovereignty of the two contracting parties shall be submitted to an arbitration tribunal composed of three members, one designated by Mexico, one by Colombia, and the third by common accord between the two Governments. GENERAL TREATY OF INTER-AMERICAN ARBITRATION AND PROTOCOL OF PROGRESSIVE ARBITRATION (TREATY SERIES, No. 886)1 Ecuador With a despatch dated July 22, 1937, the American Minister to Ecuador transmitted to the Secretary of State a copy of the Registro Oficial (no. 540) of July 15, 1937, which contains the ratifications by Ecuador of the general treaty of inter-American arbitration and of the protocol of progressive arbitration, signed at Washington January 5, 1929. The ratifications are dated June 24, 1937. With regard to reservations made by Ecuador upon signing the general treaty of inter-American arbitration, the Ecuadoran ratification of that treaty reads in translation as follows: "With the purpose of seeking more adequate means of generalizing and making effective the American instruments of peace, the Republic of Ecuador abandons the First and Second Reservations made by the representative of Ecuador upon signing the said General Treaty of Inter-American Arbitration, in accordance with Article 1 of the Protocol of Progressive Arbitration of January 5, 1929; which reservations were made in this manner: "The Delegation of Ecuador, pursuant to instructions of its Government, reserves from the jurisdiction of the obligatory arbitration agreed upon in 1 49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3153; see also Bulletin No. 89, February 1937, p. 1. |