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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES The Ministerfor External Affairs of the Irish Free State (de Valera) to the American Minister (Cudahy) SAORSTAT EIREANN 1 ROINN GNOTHAI COIGRICHE Department of External Affairs BAILE ATHA CLIATH Dublin 4th November, 1937. Aoceptanee by the Irish Free State. EXCELLENCY, I have the honour to refer to your Note No. 7 of the 29th day of September, in which Your Excellency communicated to me the text of the reciprocal air navigation arrangement between Saorstat Eire- ann and the United States of America governing the operation of civil aircraft of one country in the other country as understood by you to have been agreed to during the negotiations, now terminated, between the two countries. The text which you have communicated to me is as follows:- ARTICLE 1. Pending the conclusion of a convention between the United States of America and Saorstat Eireann on the subject of air navigation, the operation of civil aircraft of the one country in the other country shall be governed by the following provisions: ARTICLE 2. The present arrangement shall apply to Continental United States of America, exclusive of Alaska, and to Saorstat Eireann, including the territorial waters of the two countries. ARTICLE 3. The term aircraft with reference to one or the other Party to this arrangement shall be understood to mean civil aircraft, including state aircraft used exclusively for commercial purposes, duly regis- tered in the territory of such Party. ARTICLE 4. Each of the Parties undertakes to grant liberty of passage to and over its territory in time of peace to the aircraft of the other Party, provided that the conditions set forth in the present arrangement are observed. It is, however, agreed that no regular air route or service may be established or operated to, within or over territory of either Party, with or without a landing there, except by prior consent of such Party. Any air transport company of either Party applying for operating rights in territory of the other Party, on a route or service between the territories of the two Parties, shall be required to submit its ap- plication through diplomatic channels. 1 The Irish Free State. 324

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