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 FRANCE-MUTUAL AID-FEB. 28, 1945 Schedule. Such cost or expenses shall be limited to "Freight Charges" on United States vessels. 7. Interest on any unpaid portion of the balance of the total pur- chase price, above specified, of any article so transferred shall be paid by the Provisional Government of the French Republic at a fixed rate of 23/8 per cent per annum accruing from the first day of July, 1946 or from the first day of July next following the day on which such article shall have been transferred, whichever is later. Interest shall be payable annually, the first payment to be made on the first day of July next following the first day of July on which such interest began to accrue. 8. The total purchase price value of the articles in this Schedule 2 shall not exceed a total of $900,000,000. The articles in this Schedule 2 and their estimated cost to the Government of the United States of America are as follows: Locomotives $200, 000, 000 Railroad Cars 120,000,000 Merchant Marines 140,000 ,000 Harbor Watercraft 32,000 ,000 Fishing Fleet 8,000, 000 Inland Watercraft (Barges) 50,000 ,000 Metal Working Machinery 100,000,000 Industrial Equipment 150,000 ,000 Machinery for Mines, Arsenals, etc. 100,000, 000 $900,000,000 Signed at Washington in duplicate this 28th day of February, 1945. FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: JOSEPH C. GREW FOR THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC: H BONNET JEAN MONNET. The French Ambassador and the French Convmissaire en Mission to the Acting Secretary of State WASHINGTON, February 28, 1945. Sm: In the United Nations' declaration of January 1, 1942, the con- tracting governments pledged themselves to employ their full re- sources, military or economic, against those nations with which they are at war; and in the Preliminary Agreement of February 28, 1945 between the Government of the United States and the Provisional Government of France on the principles applying to mutual aid, each contracting government undertakes 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 Provisional Government of France that the general principle to be followed in providing mutual aid as set forth Interes Limit on total pur- chase price value. 55 Stat. 1600. Ante, p. 1304. 1313 59 STAT. ] «

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