² The procès-verbal of the deposit of ratifications signed by the high contracting parties on Oct. 27, 1930, contains the following paragraph:

The representative of the United States of America declared that the instrument of ratification of the United States of America was deposited subject to the distinct and explicit understandings set forth in the resolution of July 21,1930, of the Senate of the United States of America advising and consenting to ratification, that there are no secret files, documents, letters, understandings or agreements which in any way, directly or indirectly, modify, change, add to, or take from any of the stipulations, agreements or statements in said treaty; and that, excepting the agreement brought about through the exchange of notes between the Governments of the United States, Great Britain and Japan, having reference to Article 19 [infra, p. 80], there is no agreement, secret or otherwise, expressed or implied, between any of the parties to said treaty as to any construction that shall hereafter be given to any statement or provision contained therein.

³ Printed in Supplement to this Journal, Vol. 16 (1922), p. 41.

⁴ See exchange of notes, infra, p. 80