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On the recordDecember 7, 1929
I am enclosing the full powers authorizing Mr. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the United States at Berne, to sign these documents.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Letter Authorizing the Signature of Documents of Accession to the Permanent Court of International Justice.

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