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 1730 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. shall urge on the Committee the need for the utmost expedition in deal- ing with the subjects committed to it for investigation and shall request that they may be furnished with its report within 120 days of the inception of the inquiry. The procedure of the Committee shall be determined by the Com- mittee itself and it will be open to it, if it thinks fit, to deal simultane- ously through the medium of subcommittees, with any of the subjects entrusted to its consideration. Each Government shall be responsible for compensating its own members of the Committee and other personnel selected by it and for paying such other expenses as are not susceptible of being jointly shared by the two Governments. All other expenses of the Committee shall be borne jointly by both Governments in equal proportions. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest considera- tion. JAMES F. BYRNES His Excellency The Right Honorable THE EARL OF HALIFAX, K.G ., British Ambassador. The British Ambassador to the Secretary of State BRITISH EMBASSY, WASHINGTON 8, D.C. December 10th, 1945 DEAR MR. SECRETARY, I have the honour, under instructions from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to inform Your Excellency that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom are in agreement with the terms of your note of the 10th December about the Joint Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry to report on the position of the Jews in certain countries of Europe and in Palestine. I have the honour to be, with the highest consideration, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, HALIFAx The Honourable JAMES F. BYRNES, Secretary of State of the United States, Washington, D.O.

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