It is surely notorious that the delegates of a Power, by agreeing to the draft of a treaty, give to it no international validity, which results only when the treaty has been ratified by their Government.
Holland emphasizes that mere agreement by delegates does not confer international validity to treaties until ratified by their governments.
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