Editorial Note
Documentation relating to the Ninth International Conference of American States, held at Bogotá, Colombia, March 30–May 2, 1948, at which the United States plenipotentiaries signed the Charter of the Organization of American States, is contained in Foreign Relations, 1948, volume IX. Printed therein is the letter, dated December 31, 1948, from Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett to President Truman recommending transmittal of the Charter to the Senate for the advice and consent of that body to ratification. For the text of a statement by Secretary of State Dean Acheson on February 2, 1949, on the occasion of the referral of the Charter to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, see Department of State Bulletin, February 6, 1949, page 198. The Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification on August 28, 1950, subject to a reservation. President Truman ratified the Charter, subject to the reservation, on June 15, 1951, and it entered into force for the United States on December 13, 1951. The text is printed at TIAS No. 2361 in United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST), volume 2 (part 2), page 2394.