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their hope that every nation of the world will participate in the treaty and in that connection I am happy to be able to report that my Government has already received from several Governments informal indications that they are prepared to do so at the earliest possible moment. This convincing evidence of the world wide interest and sympathy which the new treaty has evoked is most gratifying to all the Governments concerned.
In these circumstances I have the honour formally to communicate to Your Excellency for your consideration, and for the approval of your Gov- ernment, if it concurs therein, the text of the above-mentioned treaty as signed to-day in Paris, omitting only that part of the preamble which names the several plenipotentiaries. The text is as follows:
"The President of the German Reich, the President of the United States of America, His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the President of the French Republic, His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, His Majesty the King of Italy, His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, the President of the Republic of Poland, the President of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic, deeply sensible of their solemn duty to promote the welfare of mankind;
"Persuaded that the time has come when a frank prescription
of war as an instrument of national policy should be made to the end that the peaceful and friendly relations now existing between their peoples may be perpetuated;
"Convinced that all changes in the relations with one another should be sought only by pacific means and be the result of peaceful and orderly process and that any signatory Power which shall hereafter seek to pro mote its national interests by resort to war should be denied the benefits furnished by this treaty:
"Hopeful that encouraged by their example all the other nations of the world will join in this humane endeavour and by adhering to the present treaty as soon as it comes into force, bring their peoples within the scope of its beneficent provisions, thus uniting the civilized nations of the world in a common renunciation of war as an instrument of their national policy:
"Have decided to conclude a treaty and for that purpose have ap- pointed as their respective plenipotentiaries (here follows the list of plen- ipotentiaries) who, having communicated to one another their full powers found in good and due form have agreed upon the following articles:
"Article I. First, solemnly declare in the name of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
"Article II.-The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes of conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means
Article III.-The present treaty shall be ratified by the High Con- tracting Parties named in the preamble in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements, and shall take effect as between them as soon as all their several instruments of ratification shall have been deposited at Washington.
"This treaty shall, when it has come into effect as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, remain open as long as may be necessary for adher- ence by all the other Powers of the world. Every instrument evidencing
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