A TREATY ON THE PROTECTION OF ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS AND HISTORIC MONUMENTS WHICH WAS SIGNED AT WASHINGTON ON APRIL 15, 1935, BY THE RESPECTIVE PLENIPOTENTIARIES OF THE 21 AMERICAN REPUBLICS
May 20, 1935. - Agreement read the first time and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and, together with message, ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate
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 treaty on the protection of
artistic and scientific institutions and historic monuments which was signed in my
presence at the White House on April 15, 1935, by the respective plenipotentiaries of the
21 American republics. It was signed for the United States by the Secretary of Agriculture
by virtue of a full power issued to him by me.
As is stated in the accompanying report of
the Secretary of State, the treaty, embodying the "Roerich Pact" which was
initiated by the Roerich Museum in the United States, was prepared in its present purpose
of carrying out a recommendation made to the governments in a resolution approved on
December 16, 1933, by the Seventh International Conference of American States at
Montevideo.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
T
HE WHITE HOUSE, May 20, 1935.THE PRESIDENT:
The undersigned, the Secretary of State,
has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to its transmission to the Senate
to receive the advice and consent of that body to ratification, should his judgment
approve thereof, a treaty on the protection of artistic and scientific institutions and
historic monuments. This treaty, embodying the "Roerich Pact" which was
initiated by the Roerich Museum in the United States, was prepared in its present form by
the governing board of the Pan American Union in pursuance of a resolution approved on
December 16, 1933, by the Seventh International Conference of American States at
Montevideo, and was signed at Washington on April 15, 1935, by the respective
plenipotentiaries of the 21 American Republics.
The treaty has for its object the protection
of historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic, educational, and cultural
institutions both in time of peace and in time of war, and provides for the use of a
distinctive flag to identify the monuments and institutions coming within the protection
of the treaty.
Respectfully submitted.
CORDELL HULL.
D
EPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, May 20, 1935.