ARTICLE IV The Government of the United States and the Italian Government will, respectively, so far as possible, facilitate the return of citizens of Italy and of the United States who may desire to return to their own country for military service, but shall not be responsible for providing transport or the cost of transport for such persons. ARTICLE V No citizen of either country who, under the provisions of this Convention, enters the military service of the other shall, by reason of such service, be considered, after this Convention shall have expired or after his discharge, to have lost his nationality or to be under any allegiance to the United States or to His Majesty the King of Italy, as the case may be. ARTICLE VI This agreement while in force holds in abeyance any provisions inconsistent therewith, in the treaty of February 26, 1871, or in any other treaty between the United States and Italy. ARTICLE VII The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, and by His Majesty the King of Italy, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or at Rome as soon as possible. It shall come into operation on the date on which the ratifications are exchanged and shall remain in force. until the expiration of sixty days after either of the contracting parties shall have given notice of termination to the other; whereupon any citizen of either country incorporated into the military service of the other under this Convention shall be, as soon as possible, discharged therefrom. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have affixed thereto their seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the twenty-fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. [SEAL.] [SEAL.] ROBERT LANSING. MACCHI DI CELLERE. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY 1 (Concluded at Versailles, June 28, 1919). THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, FRANCE, ITALY and JAPAN, These Powers being described in the present Treaty as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, BELGIUM, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, CHINA, CUBA, ECUADOR, GREECE, GUATEMALA, HAITI, THE HEDJAZ, HONDURAS, LIBERIA, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, PERU, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROUMANIA, THE SERB-CROAT - SLOVENE STATE, SIAM, CZECHOSLOVAKIA and URUGUAY, These Powers constituting with the Principal Powers mentioned above the Allied and Associated Powers, And GERMANY, of the one part; of the other part; Bearing in mind that on the request of the Imperial German Government an Armistice was granted on November 11, 1918, to Germany by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in order that a Treaty of Peace might be concluded with her, and The Allied and Associated Powers being equally desirous that the war in which they were successively involved directly or indirectly and which originated in the declaration of war by Austria-Hungary on July 28, 1914, against Serbia, the declaration of war by Germany against Russia on August 1, 1914, and against France on August 3, This treaty not ratified by 1 Senate Document No. 49, 66th Cong., 1st Sess. the United States at the date of publication herein. the treaty are too large and detailed for reproduction in this SUPPLEMENT. |