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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Government of the United States has undertaken, on the terms and subject to the conditions therein stated, to make aid available under the Lend-Lease Act to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. By the Reciprocal Aid Ante, p. 162. Agreement also entered into today between our two Governments, your Government has undertaken to render reciprocal aid from the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including the Netherlands East Indies. It is the understanding of both Governments that this reciprocal aid will include mutually agreed upon quantities of raw materials from the Netherlands East Indies for the use of the United States military or naval forces or for war production in the United States. The articles and services now specifically covered by the Agreement under Section 3 (c) of the Lend-Lease Act are those listed in the Sched- ule annexed to the Agreement. These are for Metropolitan Nether- lands only. Article IV of the Agreement, however, provides that changes may be made in that Schedule by mutual agreement between the two Governments, and my Government is prepared in the light of the military situation and its developments to consider changes under that Article with a view to providing essential supplies, of the general type of those listed in the Schedule, necessary for the prose- cution of the combined war effort in the Pacific. Any articles and services agreed upon between our two Governments as aid to be so furnished for the Netherlands East Indies under the Agreement will, when so agreed upon, become additions to the Schedule and will be transferred by the Government of the United States of America and accepted by the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the Netherlands East Indies, subject to the terms of the Agreement. It is not the intention of this Government to provide to the Govern- ment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands under the 3 (c) Agreement articles having a long production cycle and a long life. Sincerely yours, JOSEPH C. GREW Acting Secretary The Honorable Baron W. VAN BOETZELAER, Minister of the Netherlands. The Netherlands Minister to the Acting Secretary of State NETHERLANDS EMBASSY WASHINGTON, D. 0. WASHINGTON, April 30, 1946 MY DEAR MR. SECRETARY, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of April 30th outlining your Government's views concerning certain aspects of the agree- ments entered into between our two Governments on this date.

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