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MULTILATERAL-MILITARY OBLIGATIONS-APRIL 12, 1930 Brazil; Great Britain and Northern Ireland and all parts of the British Empire which are not separate members of the League of Nations; United States of America; India, with a reservation; Sweden; Australia, including Papua and Norfolk Island and the mandated territories of New Guinea and Nauru; Union of South Africa, with a reservation; Salvador; Cuba, with a reservation; and Colombia; ' AND WHEREAS in accordance with Article 12 of the said Protocol Anec, p. 1323 . the Protocol shall enter into force in respect of the Governments on whose behalf ratifications or accessions had been deposited on the date of the proc6s-verbal on the ninetieth day after the date thereof, that is to say, on May 26, 1937; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Proclamation. President of the United States of America, have caused the said Protocol to be made public to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof in respect of the afore- said countries on and after the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, and in respect of the countries which shall, after the date of the aforesaid proc6s-verbal, deposit with the Secretariat of the League of Nations their instruments of ratification or accession on and from the ninetieth day after the date of such deposit, as provided in the second paragraph of Article 12 of the said Protocol; 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 twenty-sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty-seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. I The instrument of ratification by the Netherlands (including the Netherlands Indies, Surinam, and Curacao) was deposited at Geneva on Apr. 2, 1937. At the time of depositing the ratification the Netherlands Government withdrew the reservation regarding art. 3 made at the time of signature of the protocol. In accordance with the second paragraph of art. 12 of the protocol, the protocol will enter into force in respect of the Netherlands (including the Netherlands Indies, Surinam, and Curacao) on the 90th day after the date of the deposit. -EDITOB. 1329