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other Powers to accede, is of a nature to give to the
new treaty, in the measure in which this is practically
desirable, the character of universality which conforms
to the views of the Government of the Republic.
Thanks to the precisions which have thus been made
in the new Preamble and thanks to the interpretations
which have furthermore been given to the treaty, the
Government of the Republic is happy to observe that the
new Act can be reconciled with the engagements of existing
treaties to which France is also a Contracting
Party and which it is naturally her strict duty fully to
respect in all good faith and loyalty.
In these circumstances and conditions the Government
of the Republic is perfectly disposed to sign the treaty
as proposed in Your Excellency's note of the 23rd June,
1928.
At the moment when the Government of the Republic
thus gives the assurance of its contribution to the
realisation of a project which has been long in contempla-
tion and of which it has, since the beginning, realised
the full moral significance, it desires to render homage
to the generous spirit with which the Government of the
United States has made this new manifestation of human
fraternity, which conforms fully to the deep aspirations
of the French people and of the American people and which
responds to the sentiment of international solidarity
shared ever more and more among the nations.
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