Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1928, Volume III

Treaty Series No. 760

Protocol Interpretative of Article I, Signed at Washington, February 13, 1928²⁸

The Government of the United States and the Government of the Netherlands, desiring to remove any doubt or uncertainty that may exist or that may hereafter arise as to the interpretation to be placed on Article I of the Treaty signed between the two Governments on December 18, 1913, with respect to disputes that may exist between them at the time of the taking effect of the said treaty, have authorized the undersigned to declare that the said Article I is meant and intended to apply, subject to the terms of that Article, to all disputes between the two Governments existing at the time of the taking effect of the Treaty as well as to those arising thereafter.

In Witness Whereof the undersigned have hereto signed their names and have affixed their respective seals at the City of Washington, this thirteenth day of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

Frank B. Kellogg

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J. H. van Royen

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28. In English and Dutch; Dutch text not printed. Ratification advised by the Senate, Feb. 24, 1928; ratified by the President, Feb. 27, 1928; proclaimed by the President, Mar. 12, 1928.