WHEREAS a joint resolution of Congress, approved August 26, 1937 (50 Stat. 831), reads in part as follows:

"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and respectfully requested by proclamation, or in such manner as he may deem proper, to invite foreign countries to an exposition to be held in Tampa, Florida, to be known as the 'Pan American Exposition', in commemoration of the four-hundredth anniversary of the landing of Hernando De Soto in Tampa Bay, under the auspices and on the grounds of the Florida Fair and Gasparilla Association, Incorporated, in the year 1939, with a request that they participate therein.";

AND WHEREAS I believe the people of many nations would be pleased to unite with the people of the United States in participating in this exposition, to be known as the Pan American Exposition:

Now, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, in compliance with the aforesaid joint resolution of Congress, do invite the participation of the countries of the Americas in this Exposition.

IN WITNESS 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 15" day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and [SEAL] 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

PUBLICATION No. 1116

Published with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget

FFB 1 7 1938

PROMOTION OF PEACE

CONTENTS

ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Permanent Court of Arbitration

Permanent Court of International Justice

Article 36 of the statute of the Permanent Court of International
Justice

CONSULTATION

Convention for the maintenance, preservation, and reestablishment
of peace (Treaty Series, No. 922) . .

INTERNATIONAL LAW

Convention adopted at the Conference for the Codification of
International Law, The Hague, 1930.

Convention defining the rights and duties of states (Treaty Series,
No. 881) . . .

Convention to coordinate, extend, and assure the fulfillment of the
existing treaties between the American states (Treaty Series,
No. 926).
MEDIATION

Inter-American treaty on good offices and mediation (Treaty
Series, No. 925) . . .

Treaty on the prevention of controversies (Treaty Series, No. 924).
NONINTERVENTION

Additional protocol relative to nonintervention (Treaty Series,
No. 923)

ORGANIZATION

Covenant of the League of Nations.

RADIO BROADCASTING

Convention concerning the use of broadcasting in the cause of

Convention relating to the treatment of prisoners of war (Treaty
Series, No. 846).

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Procès-verbal relating to the rules of submarine warfare set forth in part IV of the London naval treaty of 1930

9

POLITICAL

BOUNDARIES

Boundary dispute between Honduras and Nicaragua
Pact of mutual agreement.

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.

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POLITICAL- Continued.

INDEPENDENCE

Treaty regarding principles and policies to be followed in matters concerning China (Treaty Series, No. 723) (Nine Power Treaty).

Nine Power Conference

HUMANITARIAN

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EXTRADITION

Convention on extradition (Treaty Series, No. 882) .

14

NATIONALITY

Convention on nationality

14

OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS

Convention for the suppression of the illicit traffic in dangerous

drugs, and protocol of signature.

14

WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Convention for the suppression of the traffic in women of full age.

15

ECONOMIC

AGRICULTURE

Convention on the analysis of wines.

AVIATION

Convention relating to the regulation of aerial navigation. International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts. COMMERCE

Temporary commercial arrangement between the United States and Italy.

FINANCE

Conventions of the First and Second Conferences for the Uni-
formity of Laws on Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and
Cheques.

Reservation by Australia

FISHERIES

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19

19

220

Agreement for the regulation of whaling, and final act, 1937

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

Convention for the protection of industrial property (Treaty Series,
No. 834). .

LABOR

Conventions of the International Labor Conference .
NAVIGATION

Arrangement between the United States and Poland effecting the
adherence of the Free City of Danzig to the agreement be-
tween the United States and Poland for the mutual recognition
of ship measurement certificates (Executive Agreement Series,
No. 111). .

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

International Radio Conference and International Telegraph and
Telephone Conference . .

Inter-American Conference on Radiocommunications

International telecommunication convention (Treaty Series, No.
867)..