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The President of the German Reich; the Federal President of the Austrian Republic; His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; the President of the Republic of Chile; the President of the National Government of the Republic of China; the President of the Republic of Colombia; the President of the Republic of Cuba; His Majesty the King of Denmark and Iceland; the President of the Polish Republic, for the Free City of Danzig; His Majesty the King of Egypt; His Majesty the King of Spain; the Government of the Estonian Republic; the President of the French Republic; the President of the Hellenic Republic; His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary; His Majesty the King of Denmark and Iceland, for Iceland; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; the President of the Latvian Republic; Her Royal Highness the Grand-Duchess of Luxemburg; the President of the United States of Mexico; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; the President of the Republic of Peru; the President of the Polish Republic, the President of the Portuguese Republic; the President of the Republic of Salvador; His Majesty the King of Sweden; the Swiss Federal Council; the President of the Czechoslovak Republic; the President of the Republic of Uruguay; His Majesty the King of Yugoslavia,

Considering that it is of importance to settle by international agreement questions relating to the conflict of nationality laws;

Being convinced that it is in the general interest of the international community to secure that all its members should recognise that every person should have a nationality and should have one nationality only;

Recognising accordingly that the ideal towards which the efforts of humanity should be directed in this domain is the abolition of all cases both of statelessness and of double nationality;

Being of opinion that, under the economic and social conditions which at present exist in the various countries, it is not possible to reach immediately a uniform solution of all the abovementioned problems;

Being desirous, nevertheless, as a first step toward this great achievement, of settling in a first attempt at progressive codification, those questions relating to the conflict of nationality laws on which it is possible at the present time to reach international agreement,

Have decided to conclude a Convention and have for this purpose appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:

The President of the German Reich:

M. Göppert, Minister Plenipotentiary;

M. H. Hering, Privy Councillor, Head of Department at the Ministry of the Interior of the Reich.

The Federal President of the Austrian Republic:

Dr. Marc Leitmaier, Legal Adviser of the Federal Chancellery, Department for Foreign Affairs.

His Majesty the King of the Belgians:

M. J. de Ruelle, Legal Adviser of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India.

For Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and all parts of the British Empire which are not separate Members of the League of Nations:

Sir Maurice Gwyer, K.C.B., His Majesty's Procurator-General and Solicitor for the Affairs of His Majesty's Treasury:

Mr. O.F. Dowson, O.B.E., Assistant Legal Adviser to the Home Office.

For the Dominion of Canada:

The Honourable Philippe Roy, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the President of the French Republic.

For the Commonwealth of Australia:

Sir Maurice Gwyer, K.C.B., His Majesty's Procurator-General and Solicitor for the Affairs of His Majesty's Treasury;

Mr. O. F. Dowson, O.B.E., Assistant Legal Adviser to the Home Office.

For the Union of South Africa:

Mr. C. W. H. Lansdown, K.C., B.A., LL.B., Senior Law Adviser to the Government of the Union of South Africa, ex-Attorney-General of the Province of the Cape of Good Hope.

For the Irish Free State:

Mr. John J. Hearne, Legal Adviser to the Department of External Affairs.

For India:

Sir Basanta Kumar Mullick, I.C.S., Member of the Council of India, former Judge of the High Court at Patna.

The President of the Republic of Chile:

M. Miguel Cruchaga-Tocornal, former Prime Minister, former Ambassador to the President of the United States of America, former Professor of International Law, President of the Mixed Claims Commissions between Mexico and Germany and Mexico and Spain;

M. Alejandro Alvarez, Member of the Institute of France, Member and former Vice-President of the Institute of International Law, Legal Adviser of the Chilean Legations in Europe;

Vice-Admiral Hipolito Marchant, Permanent Naval Delegate to the League of Nations.

The President of the National Government of the Republic of China:

Dr. Woo Kaiseng, Minister Plenipotentiary, Director of the Permanent Office of the Chinese Delegation accredited to the League of Nations, Chargé d’Affaires at Berne.

The President of the Republic of Colombia:

M. Antonio José Restrepo, Permanent Delegate accredited to the League of Nations, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Member of the Chamber of Representatives;

M. Francisco José Urrutia, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Permanent Delegate accredited to the League of Nations, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council.

The President of the Republic of Cuba:

Dr. A. Diaz de Villar, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands;

Dr. C. de Armenteros, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council.

His Majesty the King of Denmark and Iceland:

M. F. C. Martensen-Larsen, Director at the Ministry of the Interior;

M. V. L. Lorck, Director of Navigation, Captain.

The President of the Polish Republic, for the Free City of Danzig:

M. Stefan Sieczkowski, Under-Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Justice.

His Majesty the King of Egypt:

Abd el Hamid Badaoui Pasha, President of the Litigation Committee;

Mourad Sid Ahmed Bey, Royal Counsellor.

His Majesty the King of Spain:

M. Antonio Goicoechea, former Minister of the Interior, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Member of the Royal Academy of Naval and Political Sciences, Member of the General Codification Commission of Spain, Professor of International Law at the Diplomatic Institute of Madrid.

The Government of the Estonian Republic:

M. Ants Piip, Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu, former Chief of State, former Minister for Foreign Affairs;

M. Alexandre Varma, Mag. Jur., Director of Administrative Questions at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

The President of the French Republic:

M. P. Matter, Member of the Institute, Procurator-General at the ‘Cour de Cassation’;

M. A. Kammerer, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands.

The President of the Hellenic Republic:

M. N. Politis, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the President of the French Republic;

M. Megalos A. Caloyanni, former Counsellor at the High Court of Appeal of Egypt, former Judge ad hoc of the Permanent Court of International Justice;

M. J. Spiropoulos, Professor of International Law at the University of Salonika.

His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary:

M. Jean Pelényi, Resident Minister, Head of the Permanent Hungarian Delegation accredited to the League of Nations.

His Majesty the King of Denmark and Iceland, for Iceland:

M. Sveinn Bjørnsson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Representative of Iceland in Denmark.

His Majesty the King of Italy:

Professor Amedeo Giannini, Minister Plenipotentiary, Councillor of State.

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan:

Viscount Kintomo Mushakoji, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary accredited to His Majesty the King of Sweden.

The President of the Latvian Republic:

M. Ch. Duzmans, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Yugoslavia, Permanent Delegate accredited to the League of Nations;

M. R. Akmentin, Legal Adviser at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Riga.

Her Royal Highness the Grand-Duchess of Luxemburg:

Dr. Conrad Stumper, Counsellor of Government.

The President of the United States of Mexico:

M. Eduardo Suarez, Head of the Legal Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:

M. W. J. M. van Eysinga, Professor of Law at the University of Leyden, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration;

Dr. J. Kosters, Counsellor at the Supreme Court.

The President of the Republic of Peru:

M. Mariano H. Cornejo, Representative on the Council of the League of Nations, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the President of the French Republic.

The President of the Polish Republic:

M. Stefan Sieczkowski, Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice;

Dr. S. Rundstein, Legal Adviser at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs;

Professor J. Makowski, Chief of the Treaty Section in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

The President of the Portuguese Republic:

Dr. José Caeiro da Matta, Rector of the University of Lisbon, Professor at the Coimbra and Lisbon Faculties of Law, Vice-President of the Higher Council of Public Education;

Dr. José Maria Vilhena Barbosa de Magalhaes, Professor of Law at the University of Lisbon, Member of the Committee of Experts for the Progressive Codification of International Law of the League of Nations, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, of Justice and of Public Education;

Dr. José Lobo d’Avila Lima, Professor of Law at the Universities of Lisbon and Coimbra, Legal Adviser at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

The President of the Republic of Salvador:

Dr. J. Gustavo Guerrero, Permanent Delegate accredited to the League of Nations, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the President of the French Republic.

His Majesty the King of Sweden:

M. Karl Ivan Westman, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council.

The Swiss Federal Council:

M. Victor Merz, Federal Judge;

M. Paul Dinichert, Minister Plenipotentiary, Chief of the Division for Foreign Affairs in the Federal Political Department.

The President of the Czechoslovak Republic:

M. Miroslav Plešinger Božinov, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands;

Dr. Vàclav Joachim, Chief of Section in the Ministry of the Interior, Privatdozent of Public Law, Assistant Director of the Free School of Political Sciences at Prague.

The President of the Republic of Uruguay:

Dr. Enrique Buero, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians and to Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands.

His Majesty the King of Yugoslavia:

M. Ilia Choumenkovitch, Permanent Delegate accredited to the League of Nations, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council.

Who, having deposited their full powers found in good and due form, have agreed as follows: