PAZ- SALVEMOS O PLANETA
Nicholas Roerich foi um grande místico, um grande iniciado que muito realizou pela paz no planeta Terra. Pintor, escritor, filósofo, pensador, etc. Em 1935, mais precisamente em 15 de abril, foi assinado em Washington, Estados Unidos, o PACTO ROERICH DE PAZ, em cerimônia realizada na Casa Branca, presidida pelo então presidente Franklin Delano Roosevelt com a presença de vinte representantes latino americanos, inclusive o Brasil, representado por Oswaldo Aranha. Abaixo, em Ingles, o Pacto. Veja no original, no site do museu mencionado acima: http://www.roerich.org .
Foi criado também a bandeira da Paz.
PROTECTION OF
ARTISTIC
AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS
AND HISTORIC MONUMENTS
TREATY
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AND THE OTHER AMERICAN REPUBLICS
The High Contracting Parties, animated by the
purpose of giving conventional form to the postulates of the Resolution
approved on December 16, 1933, by all the States represented at the Seventh
International Conference of American States, held at Montevideo, which
recommended to "the Governments of America which have not yet done so that
they sign the 'Roerich Pact', initiated by the Roerich Museum in the United
States, and which has as its object, the universal adoption of a flag, already
designed and generally known, in order thereby to preserve in any time of
danger all nationally and privately owned immovable monuments which form the
cultural treasure of peoples", have resolved to conclude a treaty with
that end in view, and to the effect that the treasures of culture be respected
and protected in time of war and in peace, have agree upon the following articles:
ARTICLE I
The historic monuments, museums, scientific,
artistic, educational and cultural institutions shall be considered as neutral
and as such respected and protected by belligerents. The same respect and
protection shall be due to the personnel of the institutions mentioned above.
The same respect and protection shall be accorded to the historic monuments,
museums, scientific, artistic, educational and cultural institutions in time of
peace as well as in war.
ARTICLE II
The neutrality of, and protection and respect
due to, the monuments and institutions mentioned in the preceding article,
shall be recognized in the entire expanse of territories subject to the
sovereignty of each of the signatory and acceding States, without any discrimination
as to the State allegiance of said monuments and institutions. The respective
Governments agree to adopt the measures of internal legislation necessary to
insure said protection and respect.
ARTICLE III
In order to identify the monuments and
institutions mentioned in article I, use may be made of a distinctive flag (red
circle with a triple red sphere in the circle on a white background) in
accordance with the model attached to this treaty.
ARTICLE IV
The signatory Governments and those which
accede to this treaty, shall send to the Pan American Union, at the time of
signature or accession, or at any time thereafter, a list of the monuments and
institutions for which they desire the protection agreed to in this treaty. The
Pan American Union, when notifying the Governments of signatures or accessions,
shall also send the list of monuments and institutions mentioned in this
article, and shall inform the other Governments of any changes in said list.
ARTICLE V
The monuments and institutions mentioned in article
I shall cease to enjoy the privileges recognized in the present treaty in case
they are made use of for military purposes.
ARTICLE VI
The States which do not sign the present
treaty on the date it is opened for signature, may sign or adhere to it at any
time.
ARTICLE VII
The instruments of accession, as well as
those of ratification and denunciation of the present treaty, shall be
deposited with the Pan American Union, which shall communicate notice of the
act of deposit to the other signatory or acceding States.
ARTICLE VIII
The present treaty may be denounced at any
time by any of the signatory or acceding States, and the denunciation shall go
into effect three months after notice of it has been given to the other
signatory or acceding States.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Undersigned
Plenipotentiaries, after having deposited their full powers found to be in due
and proper form, sign this treaty on behalf of their respective governments,
and affix thereto their seals, on the dates appearing opposite their signatures.
For the Argentine Republic:FELIPE A. ESPIL
April 15, 1935
For Bolivia:ENRIQUE FINOT
April 15, 1935
For Brazil:OSWALDO ARANHA
April 15, 1935
For Chile:M. TRUCCO
April 15,
1935
For
Colombia:M. LOPEZ PUMAREJO
April 15, 1935
For Costa Rica:MAN. GONZALEZ
April 15, 1935
For Cuba:GUILLERMO PATTERSON
April 15, 1935
For the Dominican Republic:RAF. BRACHE
April 15, 1935
For Ecuador:C. E. ALFARO
April 15, 1935
For El Salvador:HECTOR DAVID CASTRO
April 15, 1935
For Guatemala:ADRIAN RECINOS
April 15, 1935
For Haiti:A. BLANCHET
April 15,
1935
For
Honduras:M. PAZ BARAONA
April 15,
1935
For
Mexico:F. CASTILLO NAJERA
April 15,
1935
For
Nicaragua:HENRI DE BAYLE
April 15, 1935
For Panama:R. J. ALFARO
April 15, 1935
For Paraguay:ENRIQUE BORDENAVE
April 15, 1935
For Peru:M. DE FREYRE Y S.
April 15, 1935
For the United States of America:HENRY A.
WALLACE
April 15, 1935
For Uruguay:J. RICHLING
April 15, 1935
For
Venezuela:PEDRO M. ARCAYA
April 15,
1935
AND WHEREAS the said Treaty has been duly
ratified by the United States of America, whose instrument of ratification was
deposited with the Pan American Union on July 13, 1935;
AND WHEREAS the said Treaty has been duly
ratified also by the Republic of Cuba, whose instrument of ratification was
deposited with the Pan American Union on August 26, 1935;
NOW, THEREFORE be it known that I, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said
Treaty to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause
thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of
America and the citizens thereof.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have caused the Seal
of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed.
DONE at the city of Washington this
twenty-fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and thirty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the
one hundred and sixtieth.
FRANKLIN
D. ROOSEVELT
By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.
TREATY ON THE PROTECTION OF
ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS
AND HISTORIC MONUMENTS
M E S S A G E
FROM
THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES
TRANSMITING
A TREATY ON THE PROTECTION
OF ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS AND HISTORIC MONUMENTS WHICH WAS SIGNED
AT WASHINGTON ON APRIL 15, 1935, BY THE RESPECTIVE PLENIPOTENTIARIES OF THE 21
AMERICAN REPUBLICS
May 20, 1935. - Agreement read the first time
and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and, together with message,
ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate
To the Senate of the United States:
With a view to receiving the advice and
consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith a treaty on the
protection of artistic and scientific institutions and historic monuments which
was signed in my presence at the White House on April 15, 1935, by the
respective plenipotentiaries of the 21 American republics. It was signed for
the United States by the Secretary of Agriculture by virtue of a full power
issued to him by me.
As is stated in the accompanying report of
the Secretary of State, the treaty, embodying the "Roerich Pact"
which was initiated by the Roerich Museum in the United States, was prepared in
its present purpose of carrying out a recommendation made to the governments in
a resolution approved on December 16, 1933, by the Seventh International
Conference of American States at Montevideo.
FRANKLIN
D. ROOSEVELT.
THE WHITE HOUSE, May 20,
1935.
THE PRESIDENT:
The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has
the honor to lay before the President, with a view to its transmission to the
Senate to receive the advice and consent of that body to ratification, should
his judgment approve thereof, a treaty on the protection of artistic and
scientific institutions and historic monuments. This treaty, embodying the
"Roerich Pact" which was initiated by the Roerich Museum in the
United States, was prepared in its present form by the governing board of the
Pan American Union in pursuance of a resolution approved on December 16, 1933,
by the Seventh International Conference of American States at Montevideo, and
was signed at Washington on April 15, 1935, by the respective plenipotentiaries
of the 21 American Republics.
The treaty has for its object the protection
of historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic, educational, and cultural
institutions both in time of peace and in time of war, and provides for the use
of a distinctive flag to identify the monuments and institutions coming within
the protection of the treaty.
Respectfully submitted.
CORDELL
HULL.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, May 20, 1935.
