Session for depositing their respective instruments of acceptance and decided on July 9, 1949 that signatory Governments which had not, by that date, accepted the said agreement were granted an extension of time until October 31, 1949 for depositing their respective instru- ments of acceptance; WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority granted as aforesaid by the said Council, the Government of Italy, on July 7, 1949, deposited its instrument of acceptance of the said agreement with the Government of the United States of America; Ante, p. 2193. WHEREAS it is provided further in Article XX of the said agreement that the said Council shall fix a date which shall not be later than Sep- Ante, p. 2175 . tember 1, 1949 on which Part 2 of the said agreement shall enter into force between those Governments which have accepted it; WHEREAS the said Council, at its said First Session, decided on July 9, 1949 that Part 2 of the said agreement shall enter into force on August 1, 1949 between those Governments which have accepted it; Proclamation. Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the said international wheat agreement to the end that the same and each and every article and clause thereof shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the Ante, pp. 2173,2186, jurisdiction thereof, Parts 1, 3, 4, and 5 of the said agreement having Ante, p. 2175. entered into force on July 1, 1949 and Part 2 of the said agreement hav- ing entered into force on August 1, 1949 pursuant to the provisions thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have caused the Seal of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-nine and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-fourth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON Secretary of State 2236 [63 STAT. TREATIES
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