§ 3. Mr. MANDERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the American Senate has yet ratified the Convention for the Supervision of the International Traffic in Munitions of War; and how many more ratifications are required before the convention comes into operation?
§ Mr. EDENI am informed that the United States Senate has authorised the President to ratify the convention subject to the reservation that it shall not come into force so far as the United States is concerned until it shall have come into 357 force in respect of Belgium, the British Empire, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. As regards the second part of the question, the convention will come into operation four months after the ratifications of 14 Powers shall have been notified to the signatories. Effective ratifications of and notifications of accessions to the convention have been deposited in respect of nine Powers. A number of other States have ratified the convention, but their ratifications are subject to conditions which have not yet been fulfilled.