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Article III. If for any reason it becomes necessary that a student be repatriated the Government awarding the fellowship may effect the repatriation, at the expense of the nominating Government.

Article IV. Each High Contracting Party shall communicate to each of the other High Contracting Parties through diplomatic channels, on the first of January of every alternate year, a complete list of the full professors available for exchange service from the outstanding universities, scientific institutions and technical schools of each country. From this list each one of the other High Contracting Parties shall arrange to select a visiting professor who shall either give lectures in various centers, or conduct regular courses of instruction, or pursue special research in some designated institution and who shall in other appropriate ways promote better understanding between the parties cooperating, it being understood, however, that preference shall be given to teaching rather than to research work. The sending Government shall provide the expenses for travel to and from the capital where the exchange professor resides and the maintenance and local travel expenses while carrying out the duties for which the professor was selected. Salaries of the professors shall be paid by the sending country.

Article V.-The High Contracting Parties agree that each Government shall designate or create an appropriate agency or appoint a special officer, charged with the responsibility of carrying out in the most efficient way possible the obligations assumed by such Government in this Convention.

Article VI.-Nothing in this convention shall be construed by the High Contracting Parties as obligating any one of them to interfere with the independence of its institutions of learning or with the freedom of academic teaching and administration therein.

Article VII.-Regulation's concerning details for which it shall appear advisable to provide, shall be framed, in each of the contracting countries, by such agency as may seem appropriate to its Government, and copies of such regulations shall be promptly furnished, through the diplomatic channel, to the Governments of the other High Contracting Parties.

Article VIII.-The present Convention shall not affect obligations previously entered into by the High Contracting Parties by virtue of international agreements.

Article IX. The present Convention shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in conformity with their respective constitutional procedures. The original instrument shall be deposited in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic which shall transmit authentic certified copies to the Governments for the aforementioned purpose of ratification. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited in the archives of the Pan American Union in Washington, which shall notify the signatory Governments of said deposit. Such notification shall be considered as an exchange of ratifications.

Article X.-The present Convention will come into effect between the High Contracting Parties in the order in which they deposit their respective ratifications.

Article XI. The present Convention shall remain in effect indefinitely but may be denounced by means of one year's notice given to the Pan American Union, which shall transmit it to the other signatory

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Governments. After the expiration of this period the Convention shall cease in its effects as regards the party which denounces it but shall remain in effect for the remaining High Contracting Parties.

In witness whereof, the above mentioned Plenipotentiaries sign the present Convention in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French and hereunto affix their respective seals, at the city of Buenos Aires, Capital of the Argentine Republic, on the twenty-third day of the month of December, 1936.

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CONVENCION PARA EL FOMENTO DE LAS RELACIONES CULTURALES INTERAMERICANAS

Los Gobiernos representados en la Conferencia Interamericana de Consolidación de la Paz,

CONSIDERANDO:

Que se adelantaría el propósito con que fué convocada la Conferencia, mediante un mayor conocimiento y entendimiento de los pueblos y de las instituciones de los países representados y una más estrecha solidaridad educacional en el continente americano; y

Que facilitaría apreciablemente la consecución de tales fines el intercambio de profesores, maestros y estudiantes, entre los países americanos, y el estímulo de relaciones más estrechas entre los organismos sin carácter oficial que contribuyen a moldear la opinión pública, Han resuelto celebrar una convención con ese objeto y, al efecto, han nombrado los siguientes Plenipotenciarios:

Argentina:

CARLOS SAAVEDRA LAMAS,
ROBERTO M. ORTIZ,

MIGUEL ANGEL Cárcano,

JOSÉ MARÍA CANTILO,

FELIPE A. ESPIL,

LEOPOLDO MELO,

ISIDORO RUIZ MORENO,

DANIEL ANTOKOLETZ,

CARLOS BREBBIA,

CÉSAR DÍAZ CISNEROS.

Paraguay:

MIGUEL ANGEL SOLER,
J. ISIDRO RAMÍREZ.

Honduras:

ANTONIO BERMÚDEZ M.,
JULIÁN LÓPEZ PINEDA.

Costa Rica:

MANUEL F. JIMÉNEZ,

CARLOS BRenes.

Venezuela:

CARACCIOLO PARRA PÉREZ,

GUSTAVO HERRERA,

ALBERTO ZÉREGA FOMBONA.

Perú:

CARLOS CONCHA,

ALBERTO ULLOA,

FELIPE BARREDA LAOS.

DIÓMEDES ARIAS SCHREIBER.

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