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Calvin Coolidge: “I have no authority to vary this mode of procedure or to modify the conditions and reservations or to interpret them and…”

On the recordApril 18, 1926
I have no authority to vary this mode of procedure or to modify the conditions and reservations or to interpret them and I see no difficulty in the way of securing the assent of each signatory by direct exchange of notes as provided for by the Senate.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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State Department Message on Reservations of the United States on Joining Permanent Court of International Justice

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