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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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