AND WHEREAS, the said Convention, with the exception of Articles 3 and 4 thereof, has been duly ratified on the part of the United States of America and the instrument of ratification by the United States of America was deposited with the Pan American Union on May 21, 1930; AND WHEREAS, the said Convention has been ratified also by the Governments of Panama, Brazil and Nicaragua, and the instruments of ratification of the said Governments were deposited with the Pan American Union on May 21, 1929, September 3, 1929, and March 20, 1930, respectively; Now, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN THAT I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof, with the exception of Articles 3 and 4, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fourth. [SEAL] By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary of State. HERBERT HOOVER о TREATY SERIES, No. 816 ARBITRATION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ESTONIA Signed at Tallinn, August 27, 1929. Ratification advised by the Senate of the United States, January Ratified by the President of the United States, January 23, 1930. Ratifications exchanged at Washington, June 18, 1930. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, June 25, 1930. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a Treaty of Arbitration between the United States of America and the Estonian Republic was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Tallinn on the twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, the original of which Treaty, being in the English language, is word for word as follows: TREATY OF ARBITRATION. The President of the United States of America and the Head of the Estonian Republic, Determined to prevent so far as in their power lies any interruption in the peaceful relations that have always existed 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 treaty of arbitration and for that purpose they have appointed as their respective Plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America: Mr. F. W. B. Coleman, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, The Head of the Estonian Republic: Mr. J. Lattik, Minister for Foreign Affairs, who, having communicated to one another their full powers found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles; ARTICLE I. All differences relating to international matters in which the High Contracting Parties are concerned by virtue of a claim of right made by one against the other under treaty or otherwise, which it has not |