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 57 STAT.] NETHERLANDS-MUTUAL WAR AID-JUNE 14, 1943 Supplementary agreement between the United States of America and the June 14, 1943 Netherlands respecting principles applying to the provision of aid to [E. A. S. 326] the armed forces of the United States. Effected by exchange of notes signed at Washington June 14, 1943; effective July 8, 1942. The Netherlands Ambassador to the Secretary of State NETHERLANDS EMBASSY WASHINGTON, D .O. GA 1928 JUNE 14, 1943 SIR: In the United Nations' declaration of January 1, 1942, the con- 55 tat.1600. tracting governments pledged themselves to employ their full resources, military or economic, against those nations with which they are at war; and in the Agreement of July 8, 1942 between the Governments of the United States and of the Netherlands, on the Principles Apply- ing to Mutual Aid in the Prosecution of the War against Aggression, 56 S tat . 1554 . each contracting government undertook to provide the other with such articles, services, facilities, or information useful in the prosecution of their common war effort as it might be in a position to supply. It is the understanding of the Government of the Kingdom of the Nether- lands that the general principle to be followed in providing mutual aid as set forth in the said Agreement of July 8, 1942 is that the war production and the war resources of both Nations should be used by each in ways which most effectively utilize the available materials, manpower, production facilities and shipping space. With a view, therefore, to supplementing the Agreement of July 8, 1942, I have the honor to set forth below the understanding of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of the principles and procedures applicable to the provision of aid by the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the armed forces of the United States and the manner in which such aid will be correlated with the maintenance of those forces by the United States Government. 1. The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, retaining the right of final decision, in the light of its own potentialities and responsibilities, will provide the United States or its forces with the following types of assistance as such reciprocal aid, when and to the extent that it is found that they can most effectively be procured in territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: (a) Supplies, materials, facilities, information and services for the United States forces except for the pay and allowances of such forces, administrative expenses, and such local purchases as its official estab- lishments may make other than through the official establishments of the Government of the Netherlands as specified in paragraph 2. 991

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