Convention and protocol between the United States and France .concerning double taxation (Treaty Series, No. 885). . Financial arrangement between the United States and Brazil. Financial arrangement between the United States and China. Convention of the International Conference for the Unification of Convention between the United States and Canada for the protection, preservation, and extension of the sockeye salmon fisheries of the Convention between the United States and Canada for the preserva- tion of the halibut fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and the 24 Agreement for the exchange of official publications between the United PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL BILATERAL TREATIES OF ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION Colombia-Mexico The American Embassy at Mexico City reported by a despatch dated July 16, 1937, that on July 1, 1937, ratifications were exchanged at the Foreign Office of the treaty of arbitration between Mexico and Colombia, signed on July 11, 1928. The treaty provides that all questions which cannot be settled through diplomatic channels and which do not involve the independence or the sovereignty of the two contracting parties shall be submitted to an arbitration tribunal composed of three members, one designated by Mexico, one by Colombia, and the third by common accord between the two Governments. GENERAL TREATY OF INTER-AMERICAN ARBITRATION AND PROTOCOL OF PROGRESSIVE ARBITRATION (TREATY SERIES, No. 886)1 Ecuador With a despatch dated July 22, 1937, the American Minister to Ecuador transmitted to the Secretary of State a copy of the Registro Oficial (no. 540) of July 15, 1937, which contains the ratifications by Ecuador of the general treaty of inter-American arbitration and of the protocol of progressive arbitration, signed at Washington January 5, 1929. The ratifications are dated June 24, 1937. With regard to reservations made by Ecuador upon signing the general treaty of inter-American arbitration, the Ecuadoran ratification of that treaty reads in translation as follows: "With the purpose of seeking more adequate means of generaliz ing and making effective the American instruments of peace, the Republic of Ecuador abandons the First and Second Reservations made by the representative of Ecuador upon signing the said General Treaty of Inter-American Arbitration, in accordance with Article 1 of the Protocol of Progressive Arbitration of January 5, 1929; which reservations were made in this manner: The Delegation of Ecuador, pursuant to instructions of its Government, reserves from the jurisdiction of the obligatory arbitration agreed upon in 149 Stat. (pt. 2) 3153; see also Bulletin No. 89, February 1937, p. 1. the present Treaty: 1. Questions at present governed by conventions or treaties now in effect; 2. Those which may arise from previous causes or may result from acts preceding the signature of this treaty.' "The Republic of Ecuador upon ratifying the present Treaty maintains in effect the Third Reservation of the jurisdiction of obligatory arbitration, made by the Plenipotentiary, Mr. Gonzalo Zaldumbide, the import of which is the following: '3. Pecuniary claims of foreigners who may not have previously exhausted all legal remedies before the courts of justice of the country, it being understood that such is the interpretation and the extent of the application which the Government of Ecuador has always given to the Buenos Aires Convention of August 11, 1910.'" PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE ARTICLE 36 OF THE STATUTE OF THE PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL 2 JUSTICE Austria The Secretary General of the League of Nations informed the Secretary of State by a circular letter dated July 12, 1937, that the instrument of ratification by Austria of the declaration relative to the renewal of acceptance of the optional clause provided in the protocol of signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice was deposited with the Secretariat on June 30, 1937. ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF INTERAMERICAN CONCILIATION (TREATY SERIES, No. 887) Ecuador With a despatch dated July 22, 1937, the American Minister to Ecuador transmitted to the Secretary of State a copy of the Registro Oficial (no. 540) of July 15, 1937, which contains the ratification. by Ecuador of the additional protocol to the general convention of inter-American conciliation, signed at Montevideo on December 26, 1933. The ratification is dated June 24, 1937. ARMAMENT REDUCTION LONDON NAVAL TREATY OF 1936 France With a despatch dated July 1, 1937, the American Ambassador to Great Britain transmitted to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the procès-verbal of deposit of the instrument of ratification by 2 See Bulletins No. 91, April 1937, p. 1, and No. 93, June 1937, p. 2. 49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3185; see also Bulletin No. 92, May 1937, p. 4. |