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resort to war, to promote its own national interests,

will be denied the benefits of the treaty.

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The Government of the Republic is happy to say that

they are in agreement with these new provisions.

The Government of the Republic is happy, furthermore,

to take note of the interpretations which the Government

of the United States attaches to the new treaty in order

to give satisfaction to the various observations which

have been formulated on the part of France.

Each

These observations may be summarised as follows.

Nothing in the new treaty either restricts or com- promises in any way the right of personal defence.

nation still remains free in this respect to defend its

that nation territory against an attack or an invasion;

alone is competent to decide if circumstances require

a recourse to war for its own defence.

In the second place none of the provisions of the

new treaty conflicts either with the provisions of the

Covenant of the League of Nations or with those of the

Treaties of Locarno or of the treaties of neutrality.

Furthermore, any violation of the new treaty by one of the Contracting Powers would completely liberate the

other Contracting Powers from their obligations towards

the Power breaking the treaty.

Finally, the invitation to sign the treaty which it has already extended to all the Powers signatory of the

Acts concluded at Locarno and which it is disposed to

extend to the Powers parties to the treaties of neutrality,

together with the circumstance that it will be open to the

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