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 3556 RADIO COMMUNICATIONS, AMATEUH STATIONS-PERU. In recognition of the important services which amateurs have ren- dered in the development of radio, my Government is suggesting to a number of other governments the conclusion of agreements which would give radio amateurs some relaxation from the restric- tion introduced at Madrid by authorizing, within narrow limits, the exchange of messages on behalf of third parties. Such relaxa- tion of the restriction, however, would be of a kind which would not permit radio amateurs to compete with public or commercial radio 6r telegraph systems. The proposed agreement refers only to messages exchanged on behalf of third parties, for, under the Madrid regulations, operators of amateur stations may exchange international messages on their own behalf in the absence of a prohibition upon such exchange by one of the interested governments. I therefore suggest to Your Excelleney, and my Goycrnment hopes that that of Peru will agree to, an exchange of notes in the fol- lowing terms: "Amateur radio stations of Peru and of the United States may interchange messages on behalf of third parties, provided that such messages shall be of the character that would not normally be sent by any existing means of electrical communication or except for the availability of the amateur stations, and on which no compen- sation must be directly or indirectly paid. "This arrangement shall apply to the United States and its territories and possessions including Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Panama Canal Zone and the Philippine Islands. "This arrangement shall be subject to termination by either government on sixty days' notice to the other government, by further arrangement between the two governments dealing with the same subject, or by the enactment of legislation in either country incon- sistent therewith." I avail myself of this occasion to extend to Your Excellency the renewed assurance of my highest consideration. FRI:D :\IoHRls DEAIUNO His Excellency Doctor SOIA>N POLO, Minister for Foreign Affair.'!, Lima, PC1'U. The Peruvian Minister for Foreign AjJai;'s (Polo) to the American Ambassador (Dearing) Numero 50. SE.~OR EXBAJADOR: MINISTERIO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES, Lima, ~3 de mayo de 1934-. Tengo a honra referirme a Ia estimable nota de V uestra Excelencia No. 562, en la que se sirvi6 sugerir un intercambio de notas entre Ia Embajada a su digno cargo y este Ministerio, sobre el envlo de