h.s... Tent of sta TREATY SERIES, No. 776-800 TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRIA ARBITRATION SIGNED AT WASHINGTON, AUGUST 16, 1928 RATIFICATION ADVISED BY THE SENATE, DECEMBER 18, 1928 (LEGISLATIVE RATIFIED BY THE PRESIDENT, JANUARY 4, 1929 RATIFIED BY AUSTRIA, JANUARY 17, 1929 RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 28, 1929 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS an Arbitration Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Austria was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington on the sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, the original of which Treaty, being in the English and German languages, is word for word as follows: The President of the United States of America and the Federal President of the Republic of Austria Determined to prevent so far as in their power lies any interruption in the peaceful relations now happily existing between the two nations; Desirous of reaffirming their adherence to the policy of submitting to impartial decision all justiciable controversies that may arise between them; and Eager by their example not only to demonstrate their condemnation of war as an instrument of national policy in their mutual relations, but also to hasten the time when the perfection of international arrangements for the pacific settlement of international disputes shall have eliminated forever the possibility of war among any of the Powers of the world; Have decided to conclude a new treaty of arbitration enlarging the scope and obligations of the arbitration convention which was signed at Washington, 39280-29 Der Praesident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der Bundespraesident der Republik Oesterreich, entschlossen, soweit es in ihrer Macht liegt, jede Unterbrechung der jetzt gluecklicherweise zwischen den beiden Voelkern bestehenden friedlichen Beziehungen zu verhindern, von dem Wunsche erfuellt, ihr Bekenntnis zu der Politik zu erneuern, alle fuer ein Rechtsverfahren geeigneten Meinungsverschiedenheiten, die etwa zwischen ihnen entstehen sollten, einer unparteiischen Entscheidung zu unterwerfen, in dem Bestreben, durch ihr Beispiel nicht nur zum Ausdruck zu bringen, dass sie den Krieg als Werkzeug der nationalen Politik in ihren gegenseitigen Beziehungen verurteilen, sondern auch den Eintritt des Zeitpunktes zu beschleunigen, in dem der Abschluss internationaler Uebereinkommen zur friedlichen Regelung internationaler Streitfragen fuer immer die Moeglichkeit eines Krieges zwischen irgend welchen Maechten der Welt beseitigt haben wird, haben beschlossen, einen neuen Schiedsgerichtsvertrag abzuschliessen, der den Anwendungsbereich des zu Washington am 15. Jaenner 1909 unterzeichneten (1) |