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 998 Reservations by Brazil. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. The Secretary of State to the Brazilian Ambassador DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON May 24, 1943 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note no. 152/622.23(22) of April 28, 1943 in which you state that you have received instructions from your Government in the sense of accepting that there should be effected between Brazil and the United States of America, and on the basis of reciprocity, the proceeding suggested in the Department's note of January 23, 1943; you state that your Government gives the guarantees stipulated in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the Department's note of January 23, 1943 with the follow- ing reservations: 1) The Brazilian Government understands that the accord must be considered as reciprocal under all aspects and that the guarantees requested of the Brazilian Government in the said note are given, by implication, by the Government of the United States also, and 2) The Brazilian Government cannot assume the task of informing all the American citizens in service in its armed forces, or American citizens who may by chance have lost their citizen- ship in consequence of having taken an oath in the Brazilian forces and who are at present serving in those armed forces, that they can be transferred to the armed forces of the United States if they should so desire and if they be accepted by the armed forces of the United States. I take pleasure in informing you that your reply meets with the Effective date. approval of this Government, and that this Government now con- siders the agreement with Brazil as having become effective on April 30, 1943, the date on which your note of acknowledgment was received in the Department. The appropriate authorities of the United States Government have been informed accordingly, and I may assure you that this Government will carry out the agreement in the spirit of full cooperation with your Government. It is suggested that all the details incident to carrying out this agreement be discussed directly by officers of the Embassy with the appropriate officers of the Selective Service System and of the War Department. Lieutenant Colonel S. G. Parker, of the Selective Service System, and Lieutenant Colonel V. L. Sailor, of the Recruiting and Induction Section, Adjutant General's Office, will be available to discuss questions relating to the exercise of the option prior to induction. The Inter Allied Personnel Board of the War Department, which is headed by Major General Guy V. Henry, is the agency with which questions relating to the discharge of nondeclarant nationals

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