C.P.(Gen)Doc.1.H.3.
Article 31
At the beginning of the Article, add the phrase: “Within eighteen months following the entry into force of the present Treaty”.
After the words: “religious objects”, add “archives”.
After the words “since October 3, 1935”, add the following sentence,
“Before the expiry of the period aforesaid, Italy will compensate the Ethiopian Government for all such objects and property which cannot be restored to Ethiopia or which have been damaged”.
Add a second paragraph reading as follows:
“Italy undertakes to restore within a period of eighteen months from the date of entry into force of the present Treaty all gold and silver, including coin, looted by Italian troops or officials in Ethiopia or wrongfully removed, or to transfer to Ethiopia an amount of gold, or silver as the case may be, equal in weight and fineness to that looted or wrongfully removed. Italy further undertakes to waive all restrictions, attachments, oppositions and seizures effected in Italy or abroad as regards all property, rights and interests of the Ethiopian Government and of nationals of Ethiopia. Italy will further reimburse the Ethiopian Government at the rate of exchange in force at the time of utilisation or of seizure, all bank balances and credits whether in Italy or elsewhere, belonging to the Bank of Ethiopia (in liquidation).”
Add a third paragraph reading as follows:
“The date from which the provisions of the present Treaty shall become applicable as regards all measures, acts, and facts of any kind whatsoever entailing the responsibility of Italy or of Italian nationals towards Ethiopia, shall be held to be October 3, 1935. In particular, that date replaces the dates ‘September 1, 1939 (Article 66) June 10, 1940 (Article 66)’ and the phrase ‘outbreak of war’ (annex 6) of the present Treaty.”