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[61 STAT. An gust 30, 1946 Protocol between the United States of America and other governments [T.I . . S. 1614 prolonging the international agreement of May 6, 1937, respecting regulation of production and marketing of sugar. Signed at London August 30, 1946; ratificationadvised by the Senate of the United States of America April 24, 1947; ratified by the President of the United States of America May 7, 1947; ratification of the United States of America deposited in the archives of the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on May 20, 1947; proclaimed by the President of the United States of America May 27, 1947; effective September 1, 1946. BY THE PRESIDENT OF TH UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a protocol dated in London August 30, 1946, prolonging for one year after August 31, 1946, the international agreement regard- ing the regulation of production and marketing of sugar signed at 59 Stat.. . London on May 6, 1937, was signed by the respective Plenipoten- tiaries of the Governments of the United States of America (with a reservation "Subject to ratification"), the Union of South Africa, the Commonwealth of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, the French Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Haiti, the Netherlands, Peru, the Republic of the Philippines (with a reservation "Subject to ratifi- cation for and in the name of the Republic of the Philippines"), Po- land, Portugal, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia; WHEREAS the text of the said protocol, as certified by the Foreign Office of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in London, is word for word as follows: PROTOCOL. WHEREAS an International Agreement regarding the Regulation of the Production and Marketing of Sugar (hereinafter referred to as 59 Stat. 9 2 . "the Agreement") was signed in London on the 6th May, 1937; And whereas by a Protocol signed in London on the 22nd July, 59 Stat. 949 . 1942, the Agreement was regarded as having come into force on the 1st September, 1937, in respect of the Governments signatory of the Protocol; And whereas it was provided in the said Protocol that the Agree- ment should continue in force between the said Governments for a period of two years after the 31st August, 1942; 1236 TREATIES