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Special Message to the Senate Transmitting the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance.

December 04, 1947

[Released December 4, 1947. Dated December 1, 1947]

To the Senate of the United States:

With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith a certified copy of the inter-American treaty of reciprocal assistance, formulated at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security and signed at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish languages on September 2, 1947, by the plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and by the plenipotentiaries of other American republics.

I transmit also, for the information of the Senate, the report which the Acting Secretary of State has addressed to me in regard to the treaty above-mentioned.

The principles, purposes and provisions of the treaty have my complete and wholehearted approval and I am happy to recommend the treaty to the favorable consideration of the Senate.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

Note: The treaty was favorably considered by the Senate on December 8, 1947, and after ratification entered into force on December 3, 1948. It was proclaimed by the President on December 9, 1948.

The text of the treaty is printed in the Department of State Bulletin (vol. 17, P. 565), and in the U.S. Statutes at Large (62 Stat. 1681). The report of Acting Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett is also printed in the Department of State Bulletin (vol. p. 1188).

Harry S Truman, Special Message to the Senate Transmitting the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/232566

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