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 988 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. Service System, on the part of the Government of the United States, and the respective authorities of the Salvadoran Govern- ment. It must be understood, nevertheless, that in all cases in which a person exercises the option contemplated in this arrange- ment, such option must be accepted by the military authorities of the government of his nationality before his departure from the United States is permitted." In accordance with the bases which have just been copied, Your Excellency informs me, in the same note of April 3, that before the above-mentioned procedure comes into force between our two Govern- ments, the Department of State desires to receive from the under- signed, as Diplomatic Representative of El Salvador in the United States, a note declaring that the Government of El Salvador desires to avail itself of the same procedure and that, on doing so, it agrees to the following: (a) "No effort shall be made by the Government of El Salvador to induce any person in the United States to enlist in its own forces or in those of any foreign Government; (b) "Reciprocal treatment shall be granted by the Government of El Salvador to the citizens of the United States of America, that is, prior to the enrolment in the armed forces of their Government, they shall be offered the opportunity to elect service in the armed forces of the United States in a manner substantially like that above described. Furthermore, the Government of El Salvador agrees to inform all citizens of the United States who are serving in its armed forces, as well as former citizens of the United States who may have lost their nationality as a result of having taken an oath of loyalty on enlisting in such armed forces, in which they are serving, that they can now be transferred to the armed forces of the United States, if they so desire and on condition that they are acceptable to the armed forces of the United States. The arrangements for making such transfers are to be made between the corresponding representatives of the armed forces of our respective Governments; (c) "The Government of El Salvador shall not accept any en- listment in the United States of citizens of the Federal Union, subject to registration there, nor of aliens of any nationality who have declared their intention of becoming citizens of the United States and who are subject to registration." Your Excellency informs me furthermore, in the same note of April 3 last, that the Government of the United States is prepared to make the arrangement thus proposed effective immediately, with respect to the Republic of El Salvador, upon receiving from the undersigned a note declaring that the Government of El Salvador desires to par- ticipate in it and that it agrees to the stipulations detailed in the paragraphs lettered (a), (b), and (c), given above.

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