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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES August 10 and Agreement between the United States of America and Guatemala respect- September 16, 1944 ing cooperative education. Effected by exchange of notes signed at [EA. .460] Guatemala August 10 and Sevtember 16, 1944. The American Ambassador to the Guatemalan Minister for Foreign Affairs EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No. 274 Guatemala, August 10, 1944. EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to Your Excellency's courteous Note of July 15, 1944 (No. 9175) in which Your Excellency was so good as to indicate the desire of the Government of Guatemala to enter into a cooperative educational program to be undertaken jointly between the Government of Guatemala and an Agency of the Government of the United States in the Republic of Guatemala. The Government of the United States of America is prepared to assist the Government of Guatemala with such a program by con- tributing the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) with the understanding that the Republic of Guatemala will contribute Fifty Thousand Quetzales (Q50,000) for the same program. The assistance of the Government of the United States of America will be rendered through its agency, the Inter-American Educational Foun- dation, Incorporated, a corporation of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, to which it is hoped Your Excellency's Government would extend all the rights and privileges in Guatemala to which the Foundation would be entitled as an agency of the United States Government or which would facilitate its part in the cooperative educational program. It is my understanding that the Government of Guatemala would be disposed to include among those rights and privileges the entry, free of customs duties and other taxes and charges, of the official supplies and equipment for the Inter-American Educational Founda- tion, Incorporated, as well as the personal effects and supplies of the employees of the Foundation who are citizens of the United States receiving compensation from any Government; and that the Founda- tion would be accorded every feasible facility of free communication and transportation within the limits of Guatemala and that it and its employees would be free of internal taxation. 1271

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