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711.9412Anti-War/177

The Japanese Ambassador ( Debuchi ) to the Secretary of State

Washington , July 24, 1929.
No. 92

Sir: I have the honor, under instructions from my Government, to transmit herewith to you the Declaration of the Imperial Government made on June 27 of this year, concerning the phraseology “in the names of their respective peoples”, appearing in Article 1 of the Treaty for the Renunciation of War, signed at Paris on August 27, 1928. The Declaration was made for the purpose of dispelling any doubt in relation to the Constitution of Japan, elucidating, as it does, the construction placed by the Japanese Government on the phraseology in question.

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I am further instructed to request you to be so good as to send a copy of this note and of the Declaration above mentioned to each of the other High Contracting Parties concerned.

Accept [etc.]

K. Debuchi
[Enclosure]

The Japanese Embassy to the Department of State

Declaration

The Imperial Government declare that the phraseology “in the names of their respective peoples”, appearing in Article I of the Treaty for the Renunciation of War, signed at Paris on August 27, 1928, viewed in the light of the provisions of the Imperial Constitution, is understood to be inapplicable in so far as Japan is concerned.

June 27, 4 Showa (1929).