Agreement on Reparation from Germany
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Agreement on reparation from Germany, on the establishment of an inter-allied reparation agency and on the restitution of monetary gold - Paris, 14th January 1946
AGREEMENT ON REPARATION FROM GERMANY, ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INTER-ALLIED REPARATION AGENCY AND ON THE RESTITUTION OF MONETARY GOLD
(Paris, 14 January 1946)
The Governments of Albania, the United States of America,
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India,
Luxembourg, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia,
the Union of South Africa and Yugoslavia, in order to obtain an
equitable distribution among themselves of the total assets which,
in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the
provisions agreed upon at Potsdam on 1 August 1945 between the
Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics,[1] are or may be declared to be available as
reparation from Germany (hereinafter referred to as German
reparation), in order to establish an Inter-Allied Reparation
Agency, and to settle an equitable procedure for the restitution of
monetary gold,
HAVE AGREED as follows:
PART I
GERMAN REPARATION
Article 1
Shares in reparation
A. German reparation (exclusive of the funds to be allocated
under Article 8 of Part I of this Agreement), shall be divided into
the following categories:
Category A, which shall include all forms of German
reparation except those included in Category B;
Category B, which shall include industrial and other capital
equipment removed from Germany, and merchant ships and inland water
transport.
B. Each Signatory Government shall be entitled to the
percentage share of the total value of Category A and the
percentage share of the total value of Category B set out for that
Government in the Table of Shares set forth below:
Table of Shares
Country |
Category A |
Category B |
Albania |
.05 |
.35 |
United States of America |
28.00 |
11.80 |
Australia |
.70 |
.95 |
Belgium |
2.70 |
4.50 |
Canada |
3.50 |
1.50 |
Denmark |
.25 |
.35 |
Egypt |
.05 |
.20 |
France |
16.00 |
22.80 |
United Kingdom |
28.00 |
27.80 |
Greece |
2.70 |
4.35 |
India |
2.00 |
2.90 |
Luxembourg |
.15 |
.40 |
Norway |
1.30 |
1.90 |
New Zealand |
.40 |
.60 |
Netherlands |
3.90 |
5.60 |
Czechoslovakia |
3.00 |
4.30 |
Union of South Africa* |
.70 |
.10 |
Yugoslavia |
6.60 |
9.60 |
TOTAL |
100.00 |
100.00 |
* The Government of the Union of South Africa has undertaken to waive its claims to the extent necessary to reduce its percentage share of Category B to the figure of 0.1 per cent but is entitled, in disposing of German enemy assets within its jurisdiction, to charge the net value of such assets against its percentage share of Category A and a percentage share under Category B of 1.0 per cent. [Footnote appeared in original text.]
C. Subject to the provisions of paragraph D below, each
Signatory Government shall be entitled to receive its share of
merchant ships determined in accordance with Article 5 of Part I of
this Agreement, provided that its receipts of merchant ships do not
exceed in value its share in Category B as a whole.
Subject to the provisions of paragraph D below, each
Signatory Government shall also be entitled to its Category A
percentage share in German assets in countries which remained
neutral in the war against Germany.
The distribution among the Signatory Governments of forms of
German reparation other than merchant ships, inland water transport
and German assets in countries which remained neutral in the war
against Germany shall be guided by the principles set forth in
Article 4 of Part I of this Agreement.
D. If a Signatory Government receives more than its
percentage share of certain types of assets in either Category A or
Category B, its receipts of other types of assets in that Category
shall be reduced so as to ensure that it shall not receive more
than its share in that Category as a whole.
E. No Signatory Government shall receive more than its
percentage share of either Category A or Category B as a whole by
surrendering any part of its percentage share of the other
Category, except that with respect to German enemy assets within
its own jurisdiction, any Signatory Government shall be permitted
to charge any excess of such assets over its Category A percentage
share of total German enemy assets within the jurisdiction of the
Signatory Governments either to its receipts in Category A or to
its receipts in Category B or in part to each Category.
F. The Inter-Allied Reparation Agency, to be established in
accordance with Part II of this Agreement, shall charge the
reparation account of each Signatory Government for the German
assets within that Government's jurisdiction over a period of five
years. The charges at the date of the entry into force of this
Agreement shall be not less than 20 per cent of the net value of
such assets (as defined in Article 6 of Part I of this Agreement)
as then estimated, at the beginning of the second year thereafter
not less than 25 per cent of the balance as then estimated, at the
beginning of the third year not less than 331/3 per cent of the
balance as then estimated, at the beginning of the fourth year not
less than 50 per cent of the balance as then estimated, at the
beginning of the fifth year not less than 90 per cent of the
balance as then estimated, and at the end of the fifth year the
entire remainder of the total amount actually realized.
G. The following exceptions to paragraphs D and E above shall
apply in the case of a Signatory Government whose share in Category
B is less than its share in Category A:
(i) Receipts of merchant ships by any such Government shall
not reduce its percentage share in other types of assets in
Category B, except to the extent that such receipts exceed the
value obtained when that Government's Category A percentage is
applied to the total value of merchant ships.
(ii) Any excess of German assets within the jurisdiction of
such Government over its Category A percentage share of the total
of German assets within the jurisdiction of Signatory Government as
a whole shall be charged first to the additional share in Category
B to which that Government would be entitled if its share in
Category B were determined by applying its Category A percentage to
the forms of German reparation in Category B.
H. If any Signatory Government renounces its shares or part
of its shares in German reparation as set out in the above Table of
Shares, or if it withdraws from the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency
at a time when all or part of its shares in German reparation
remain unsatisfied, the shares or part thereof thus renounced or
remaining shall be distributed rateably among the other Signatory
Governments.
Article 2
Settlement of claims against Germany
A. The Signatory Governments agree among themselves that
their respective shares of reparation, as determined by the present
Agreement, shall be regarded by each of them as covering all its
claims and those of its nationals against the former German
Government and its Agencies, of a governmental or private nature,
arising out of the war (which are not otherwise provided for),
including costs of German occupation, credits acquired during
occupation on clearing accounts and claims against the
Reichskreditkassen.
B. The provisions of paragraph A above are without prejudice
to:
(i) the determination at the proper time of the forms,
duration or total amount of reparation to be made by Germany;
(ii) the right which each Signatory Government may have with
respect to the final settlement of German reparation; and
(iii) any political, territorial or other demands which any
Signatory Government may put forward with respect to the peace
settlement with Germany.
C. Notwithstanding anything in the provisions of paragraph A
above, the present Agreement shall not be considered as
affecting:
(i) the obligation of the appropriate authorities in Germany
to secure at a future date the discharge of claims against Germany
and German nationals arising out of contracts and other obligations
entered into, and rights acquired, before the existence of a state
of war between Germany and the Signatory Government concerned or
before the occupation of its territory by Germany, whichever was
earlier;
(ii) the claims of Social Insurance Agencies of the Signatory
Governments or the claims of their nationals against the Social
Insurance Agencies of the former German Government; and
(iii) banknotes of the Reichsbank and the Rentenbank, it
being understood that their realization shall not have the result
of reducing improperly the amount of reparation and shall not be
effected without the approval of the Control Council for
Germany.
D. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph A of this
Article, the Signatory Governments agree that, so far as they are
concerned, the Czechoslovak Government will be entitled to draw
upon the Giro account of the National Bank of Czechoslovakia at the
Reichsbank, should such action be decided upon by the Czechoslovak
Government and approved by the Control Council for Germany, in
connection with the movement from Czechoslovakia to Germany of
former Czechoslovak nationals.
Article 3
Waiver of claims regarding property allocated as
reparation
Each of the Signatory Governments agrees that it will not
assert, initiate actions in international tribunals in respect of,
or give diplomatic support to claims on behalf of itself or those
persons entitled to its protection against any other Signatory
Government or its nationals in respect of property received by that
Government as reparation with the approval of the Control Council
for Germany.
Article 4
General principles for the allocation of industrial and other
capital equipment
A. No Signatory Government shall request the allocation to it
as reparation of any industrial or other capital equipment removed
from Germany except for use in its own territory or for use by its
own nationals outside its own territory.
B. In submitting requests to the Inter-Allied Reparation
Agency, the Signatory Governments should endeavour to submit
comprehensive programs of requests for related groups of items,
rather than requests for isolated items or small groups of items.
It is recognized that the work of the Secretariat of the Agency
will be more effective, the more comprehensive the programs which
Signatory Governments submit to it.
C. In the allocation by the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency of
items declared available for reparation (other than merchant ships,
inland water transport and German assets in countries which
remained neutral in the war against Germany), the following general
principles shall serve as guides:
(i) Any item or related group of items in which a claimant
country has a substantial prewar financial interest shall be
allocated to that country if it so desires. Where two or more
claimants have such substantial interests in a particular item or
group of items, the criteria stated below shall guide the
allocation.
(ii) If the allocation between competing claimants is not
determined by paragraph (i), attention shall be given, among other
relevant factors, to the following considerations:
(a) The urgency of each claimant country's needs for the item
or items to rehabilitate, reconstruct or restore to full activity
the claimant country's economy;
(b) The extent to which the item or items would replace
property which was destroyed, damaged or looted in the war, or
requires replacement because of excessive wear in war production,
and which is important to the claimant country's economy;
(c) The relation of the item or items to the general pattern
of the claimant country's prewar economic life and to programs for
its postwar economic adjustment or development;
(d) The requirements of countries whose reparation shares are
small but which are in need of certain specific items or categories
of items.
(iii) In making allocations a reasonable balance shall be
maintained among the rates at which the reparation shares of the
several claimant Governments are satisfied, subject to such
temporary exceptions as are justified by the considerations under
paragraph (ii)(a) above.
Article 5
General principles for the allocation of merchant ships and
inland water transport
A. (i) German merchant ships available for distribution as
reparation among the Signatory Governments shall be distributed
among them in proportion to the respective over-all losses of
merchant shipping, on a gross tonnage basis, of the Signatory
Governments and their nationals through acts of war. It is
recognized that transfers of merchant ships by the United Kingdom
and United States Governments to other Governments are subject to
such final approvals by the legislatures of the United Kingdom and
United States of America as may be required.
(ii) A special committee, composed of representatives of the
Signatory Governments, shall be appointed by the Assembly of the
Inter-Allied Reparation Agency to make recommendations concerning
the determination of such losses and the allocation of German
merchant ships available for distribution.
(iii) The value of German merchant ships for reparation
accounting purposes shall be the value determined by the Tripartite
Merchant Marine Commission in terms of 1938 prices in Germany plus
15 per cent, with an allowance for depreciation.
B. Recognizing that some countries have special need for
inland water transport, the distribution of inland water transport
shall be dealt with by a special committee appointed by the
Assembly of the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency in the event that
inland water transport becomes available at a future time as
reparation for the Signatory Governments. The valuation of inland
water transport will be made on the basis adopted for the valuation
of merchant ships or on an equitable basis in relation to that
adopted for merchant ships.
Article 6
German external assets
A. Each Signatory Government shall, under such procedures as
it may choose, hold or dispose of German enemy assets within its
jurisdiction in manners designed to preclude their return to German
ownership or control and shall charge against its reparation share
such assets (net of accrued taxes, liens, expenses of
administration, other in rem charges against specific items and
legitimate contract claims against the German former owners of such
assets).
B. The Signatory Governments shall give to the Inter-Allied
Reparation Agency all information for which it asks as to the value
of such assets and the amounts realized from time to time by their
liquidation.
C. German assets in those countries which remained neutral in
the war against Germany shall be removed from German ownership or
control and liquidated or disposed of in accordance with the
authority of France, the United Kingdom and the United States of
America, pursuant to arrangements to be negotiated with the
neutrals by these countries. The net proceeds of liquidation or
disposition shall be made available to the Inter-Allied Reparation
Agency for distribution on reparation account.
D. In applying the provisions of paragraph A above, assets
which were the property of a country which is a member of the
United Nations or its nationals who were not nationals of Germany
at the time of the occupation or annexation of this country by
Germany, or of its entry into war, shall not be charged to its
reparation account. It is understood that this provision in no way
prejudges any questions which may arise as regards assets which
were not the property of a national of the country concerned at the
time of the latter's occupation or annexation by Germany or of its
entry into war.
E. The German enemy assets to be charged against reparation
shares shall include assets which are in reality German enemy
assets, despite the fact that the nominal owner of such assets is
not a German enemy.
Each Signatory Government shall enact legislation or take
other appropriate steps, if it has not already done so, to render
null and void all transfers made, after the occupation of its
territory or its entry into war, for the fraudulent purpose of
cloaking German enemy interests, and thus saving them harmless from
the effect of control measures regarding German enemy
interests.
F. The Assembly of the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency shall
set up a Committee of Experts in matters of enemy property
custodianship in order to overcome practical difficulties of law
and interpretation which may arise. The Committee should in
particular guard against schemes which might result in effecting
fictitious or other transactions designed to favour enemy
interests, or to reduce improperly the amount of assets which might
be allocated to reparation.
Article 7
Captured supplies
The value of supplies and other materials susceptible of
civilian use captured from the German Armed Forces in areas outside
Germany and delivered to Signatory Governments shall be charged
against their reparation shares in so far as such supplies and
materials have not been or are not, in the future either paid for
or delivered under arrangements precluding any charge.
It is recognized that transfers of such supplies and
materials by the United Kingdom and United States Governments to
other Governments are agreed to be subject to such final approval
by the legislature of the United Kingdom or the United States of
America as may be required.
Article 8
Allocation of a reparation share to non-repatriable victims
of German action
In recognition of the fact that large numbers of persons have
suffered heavily at the hands of the Nazis and now stand in dire
need of aid to promote their rehabilitation but will be unable to
claim the assistance of any Government receiving reparation from
Germany, the Governments of the United States of America, France,
the United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, in consultation
with the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees, shall as soon as
possible work out in common agreement a plan on the following
general lines:
A. A share of reparation consisting of all the non-monetary
gold found by the Allied Armed Forces in Germany and in addition a
sum not exceeding 25 million dollars shall be allocated for the
rehabilitation and resettlement of non-repatriable victims of
German action.
B. The sum of 25 million dollars shall be met from a portion
of the proceeds of German assets in neutral countries which are
available for reparation.
C. Governments of neutral countries shall be requested to
make available for this purpose (in addition to the sum of 25
million dollars) assets in such countries of victims of Nazi action
who have since died and left no heirs.
D. The persons eligible for aid under the plan in question
shall be restricted to true victims of Nazi persecution and to
their immediate families and dependents, in the following
classes:
(i) Refugees from Nazi Germany or Austria who require aid and
cannot be returned to their countries within a reasonable time
because of prevailing conditions;
(ii) German and Austrian nationals now resident in Germany or
Austria in exceptional cases in which it is reasonable on grounds
of humanity to assist such persons to emigrate and providing they
emigrate to other countries within a reasonable period;
(iii) Nationals of countries formerly occupied by the Germans
who cannot be repatriated or are not in a position to be
repatriated within a reasonable time. In order to concentrate aid
on the most needy and deserving refugees and to exclude persons
whose loyalty to the United Nations is or was doubtful, aid shall
be restricted to nationals or former nationals of previously
occupied countries who were victims of German concentration camps
or of concentration camps established by regimes under Nazi
influence but not including persons who have been confined only in
prisoners of war camps.
E. The sums made available under paragraphs A and B above
shall be administered by the Inter-Governmental Committee on
Refugees or by a United Nations Agency to which appropriate
functions of the Inter-Governmental Committee may in the future be
transferred. The sums made available under paragraph C above shall
be administered for the general purposes referred to in this
Article under a program of administration to be formulated by the
five Governments named above.
F. The non-monetary gold found in Germany shall be placed at
the disposal of the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees as
soon as a plan has been worked out as provided above.
G. The Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees shall have
power to carry out the purposes of the fund through appropriate
public and private field organisations.
H. The fund shall be used, not for the compensation of
individual victims, but to further the rehabilitation or
resettlement of persons in the eligible classes.
I. Nothing in this Article shall be considered to prejudice
the claims which individual refugees may have against a future
German Government, except to the amount of the benefits that such
refugees may have received from the sources referred to in
paragraphs A and C above.
PART II
INTER-ALLIED REPARATION AGENCY
Article 1
Establishment of the Agency
The Governments Signatory to the present Agreement hereby
establish an Inter-Allied Reparation Agency (hereinafter referred
to as "the Agency"). Each Government shall appoint a Delegate to
the Agency and shall also be entitled to appoint an Alternate who,
in the absence of the Delegate, shall be entitled to exercise all
the functions and rights of the Delegate.
Article 2
Functions of the Agency
A. The Agency shall allocate German reparation among the
Signatory Governments in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement and of any other agreements from time to time in force
among the Signatory Governments. For this purpose, the Agency shall
be the medium through which the Signatory Governments receive
information concerning, and express their wishes in regard to,
items available as reparation.
B. The Agency shall deal with all questions relating to the
restitution to a Signatory Government of property situated in one
of the Western Zones of Germany which may be referred to it by the
Commander of that Zone (acting on behalf of his Government), in
agreement with the claimant Signatory Government or Governments,
without prejudice, however, to the settlement of such questions by
the Signatory Governments concerned either by agreement or
arbitration.
Article 3
Internal organisation of the Agency
A. The organs of the Agency shall be the Assembly and the
Secretariat.
B. The Assembly shall consist of the Delegates and shall be
presided over by the President of the Agency. The President of the
Agency shall be the Delegate of the Government of France.
C. The Secretariat shall be under the direction of a
Secretary General, assisted by two Deputy Secretaries General. The
Secretary General and the two Deputy Secretaries General shall be
appointed by the Governments of France, the United States of
America and the United Kingdom. The Secretariat shall be
international in character. It shall act for the Agency and not for
the individual Signatory Governments.
Article 4
Functions of the Secretariat
The Secretariat shall have the following functions:
A. To prepare and submit to the Assembly programs for the
allocation of German reparation;
B. To maintain detailed accounts of assets available for, and
of assets distributed as, German reparation;
C. To prepare and submit to the Assembly the budget of the
Agency;
D. To perform such other administrative functions as may be
required.
Article 5
Functions of the Assembly
Subject to the provisions of Articles 4 and 7 of Part II of
this Agreement, the Assembly shall allocate German reparation among
the Signatory Governments in conformity with the provisions of this
Agreement and of any other agreements from time to time in force
among the Signatory Governments. It shall also approve the budget
of the Agency and shall perform such other functions as are
consistent with the provisions of this Agreement.
Article 6
Voting in the Assembly
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each Delegate
shall have one vote. Decisions in the Assembly shall be taken by a
majority of the votes cast.
Article 7
Appeal from decisions of the Assembly
A. When the Assembly has not agreed to a claim presented by a
Delegate that an item should be allocated to his Government, the
Assembly shall, at the request of that Delegate and within the time
limit prescribed by the Assembly, refer the question to
arbitration. Such reference shall suspend the effect of the
decision of the Assembly on that item.
B. The Delegates of the Government claiming an item referred
to arbitration under paragraph A above shall elect an Arbitrator
from among the other Delegates. If agreement cannot be reached upon
the selection of an Arbitrator, the United States Delegate shall
either act as Arbitrator or appoint as Arbitrator another Delegate
from among the Delegates whose Governments are not claiming the
item. If the United States Government is one of the claimant
Governments, the President of the Agency shall appoint as
Arbitrator a Delegate whose Government is not a claimant
Government.
Article 8
Powers of the arbitrator
When the question of the allocation of any item is referred
to arbitration under Article 7 of Part II of this Agreement, the
Arbitrator shall have authority to make final allocation of the
item among the claimant Governments. The Arbitrator may, at his
discretion, refer the item to the Secretariat for further study. He
may also, at his discretion, require the Secretariat to resubmit
the item to the Assembly.
Article 9
Expenses
A. The salaries and expenses of the Delegates and of their
staffs shall be paid by their own Governments.
B. The common expenses of the Agency shall be met from the
funds of the Agency. For the first two years from the date of the
establishment of the Agency, these funds shall be contributed in
proportion to the percentage shares of the Signatory Governments in
Category B and thereafter in proportion to their percentage in
Category A.
C. Each Signatory Government shall contribute its share in
the budget of the Agency for each budgetary period (as determined
by the Assembly) at the beginning of that period; provided that
each Government shall, when this Agreement is signed on its behalf,
contribute a sum equivalent to not less than its Category B
percentage share of [sterling]50,000 and shall, within three months
thereafter, contribute the balance of its share in the budget of
the Agency for the budgetary period in which this Agreement is
signed on its behalf.
D. All contributions by the Signatory Governments shall be
made in Belgian francs or such other currency or currencies as the
Agency may require.
Article 10
Voting of the Budget
In considering the budget of the Agency for any budgetary
period, the vote of each Delegate in the Assembly shall be
proportional to the share of the budget for that period payable by
his Government.
Article 11
Official languages
The official languages of the Agency shall be English and
French.
Article 12
Offices of the Agency
The seat of the Agency shall be in Brussels. The Agency shall
maintain liaison offices in such other places as the Assembly,
after obtaining the necessary consents, may decide.
Article 13
Withdrawal
Any Signatory Government, other than a Government which is
responsible for the control of a part of German territory, may
withdraw from the Agency after written notice to the
Secretariat.
Article 14
Amendments and termination
This Part II of the Agreement can be amended or the Agency
terminated by a decision in the Assembly of the majority of the
Delegates voting, provided that the Delegates forming the majority
represent Governments whose shares constitute collectively not less
than 80 per cent of the aggregate of the percentage shares in
Category A.
Article 15
Legal capacity. Immunities and privileges
The Agency shall enjoy in the territory of each Signatory
Government such legal capacity and such privileges, immunities and
facilities, as may be necessary for the exercise of its functions
and the fulfilment of its purpose. The representatives of the
Signatory Governments and the officials of the Agency shall enjoy
such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the independent
exercise of their functions in connection with the Agency.
PART III
RESTITUTION OF MONETARY GOLD
Single Article
A. All the monetary gold found in Germany by the Allied Forces and that referred to in paragraph G below (including gold coins, except those of numismatic or historical value, which shall be restored directly if identifiable) shall be pooled for distribution as restitution among the countries participating in the pool in proportion to their respective losses of gold through looting or by wrongful removal to Germany.
B. Without prejudice to claims by way of reparation for
unrestored gold, the portion of monetary fold thus accruing to each
country participating in the pool shall be accepted by that country
in full satisfaction of all claims against Germany for restitution
of monetary gold.
C. A proportional share of the gold shall be allocated to
each country concerned which adheres to this arrangement for the
restitution of monetary gold and which can establish that a
definite amount of monetary gold belonging to it was looted by
Germany or, at any time after 12 March 1938, was wrongfully removed
into German territory.
D. The question of the eventual participation of countries
not represented at the Conference (other than Germany but including
Austria and Italy) in the above mentioned distribution shall be
reserved, and the equivalent of the total shares which these
countries would receive, if they were eventually admitted to
participate, shall be set aside to be disposed of at a later date
in such manner as may be decided by the Allied Governments
concerned.
E. The various countries participating in the pool shall
supply to the Governments of the United States of America, France
and the United Kingdom, as the occupying Powers concerned, detailed
and verifiable data regarding the gold losses suffered through
looting by, or removal to, Germany.
F. The Governments of the United States of America, France
and the United Kingdom shall take appropriate steps within the
Zones of Germany occupied by them respectively to implement
distribution in accordance with the foregoing provisions.
G. Any monetary gold which may be recovered from a third
country to which it was transferred from Germany shall be
distributed in accordance with this arrangement for the restitution
of monetary gold.
PART IV
ENTRY INTO FORCE AND SIGNATURE
Article 1
Entry into force
This Agreement shall be open for signature on behalf of any
Government represented at the Paris Conference on
Reparation.[2]
As soon as it has been signed on behalf of Governments
collectively entitled to not less than 80% of the aggregate of
shares in Category A of German reparation, it shall come into force
among such Signatory Governments.[3]
The Agreement shall thereafter be in force among such
Governments and those Governments on whose behalf it is
subsequently signed.[4]
Article 2
Signature
The signature of each contracting Government shall be deemed
to mean that the effect of the present Agreement extends to the
colonies and overseas territories of such Government, and to
territories under its protection or suzerainty or over which it at
present exercises a mandate.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, duly authorized by their respective Governments, have signed in Paris the present Agreement in the English and French languages, the two texts being equally authentic, in a single original, which shall be deposited in the Archives of the Government of the French Republic, a certified copy thereof being furnished by that Government to each signatory Government.
[Signatures not reproduced here.]
[1] SP 145 p. 852.
[2] Signed definitively for Australia 25 February 1946.
[3] The Agreement entered into force generally 24 January 1946.
[4] The Agreement entered into force for Australia 25 February
1946.