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 Return of defense articles to U. S. Full cognizance of French aid. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. ARTICLE V The Provisional Government of the French Republic will return to the United States of America at the end of the present emergency, as determined by the President of the United States of America, such defense articles transferred under this Agreement as shall not have been destroyed, lost or consumed and as shall be determined by the President to be useful in the defense of the United States of America or of the Western Hemisphere or to be otherwise of use to the United States of America. ARTICLE VI In the final determination of the benefits to be provided to the United States of America by the Provisional Government of the French Republic full cognizance shall be taken of all property, services, infor- mation, facilities, or other benefits or considerations provided by the Provisional Government of the French Republic subsequent to March 11, 1941, and accepted or acknowledged by the President on behalf of the United States of America. ARTICLE VII Promotion eoomf In the final determination of the benefits to be provided to the relations. United States of America by the Provisional Government of the French Republic in return for aid furnished under the Act of Congress 52 Stat 3 . 1., pp of March 11, 1941, the terms and conditions thereof shall be such as 2U. S.C ., Snpp. IVt, 4 §p.4 . not to burden commerce between the two countries, but to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of worldwide economic relations. To that end, they shall include provision for agreed action by the United States of America and France, open to participation by all other countries of like mind, directed to the expansion, by appropriate international and domestic measures, of production, employment and the exchange and consump- tion of goods, which are the material foundations of the liberty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce, and to the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers; and, in general, to the attainment of all the economic objectives set forth in the Joint Declaration made on August 55 stat. IM. 14, 1941, by the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At an early convenient date, conversations shall be begun between the two Governments with a view to determining, in the light of governing economic conditions, the best means of attaining the above- stated objectives by their own agreed action and of seeking the agreed action of other likeminded Governments. ARTICLE VIII Effective date This Agreement shall take effect as from this day's date. It shall continue in force until a date to be agreed upon by the two Govern- ments.

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