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59 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-SUGAR---May 6, 1937 941 July 22, 1942; Aug. 31 , 1944 9 does not agree that the complaint of that Government is well-founded, that Government shall have the right to submit the case to the judgment of three arbitrators, subjects of countries not parties to the Agreement, to be nominated by the Council at its first meeting after the entry into force of the Agreement. If either the Council or the arbitrators declare the case to be well-founded the Government concerned may give notice of withdrawal from the Agreement. (d) The Council shall take a decision within sixty days on any matters submitted to it in accordance with the preceding paragraphs of this Article; failure to do so within that time shall give the Govern- ment which has submitted the matter to the Council the right to give notice of withdrawal from the Agreement. (e) In the event of any Government giving notice of withdrawal from the Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Article, any of the other Contracting Governments shall have the right at any time during the ensuing three months also to give notice of withdrawal. (f) All notices of withdrawal given under this Article shall be sent to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, by whom they will be communicated to all the other Contracting Governments and to the Council; and withdrawal shall take effect three months after the date of receipt of such notice by the Government of the United Kingdom. (g) Any decision taken by the Council under this Article shall require three-fourths of the votes cast. In faith whereof the undersigned, duly authorised thereto, have signed the present Agreement. Done in London this sixth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven. In accordance with the procedure followed by the World Monetary and Economic Conference, in continuation of which the International Sugar Conference was called, the present Agreement has been prepared in the French and English languages. It will also be drawn up in German and Russian. The four texts shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, by whom certified copies will be communicated to all the signatory Governments, the four texts being equally authentic. Pending the signature of the other texts, the signatures appended to the English text shall take effect as from to-day. For the Government of the Union of South Africa: C. T. TE WATER. F. J. DU TOIT. For the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia: R. G. CASEY. S. M. BRUCE. For the Government of Belgium: Luc. BEAUDUIN. For the Government of Brazil: DECIO COIMBRA.