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 60 STAT.] UNITED KINGDOM-MUTUAL AID SETTLEMENT-MAR. 27,1946 15' VII AGREEMENT ON LEND-LEASE AND RECIPROCAL AID INSTALLATIONS In accordance with their JOINT STATEMENT REGARDING SETTLE- MENT FOR LEND-LEASE, RECIPROCAL AID, SURPLUS WAR PROPERTY AND CLAIMS, dated December 6, 1945, and in partial consideration Pop.16. of the payment of the net amount of $532,000,000 by the Government of the United Kingdom to the Government of the United States specified in paragraph 3 (b) thereof, the Governments of the United PoLP 15- States and of the United Kingdom have reached agreement as set forth below regarding the transfer, use and disposition of lend-lease and reciprocal aid installations, which term shall cover structures or capital assemblies affixed to land or buildings in a permanent manner. 1. The Government of the United Kingdom hereby acquires and shall be deemed to have acquired on September 2, 1945 full title to any lend-lease interest in installations located in the United Kingdom or British Colonial Dependencies on that date, except that such interest in any installations located in the Colonial Dependencies and under the control of the United States Armed Forces on that date shall be deemed to have been returned to the Government of the United States. The Government of the United States hereby acquires and shall be deemed to have acquired on September 2, 1945 full title to any reciprocal aid interest in installations located on that date in the United States, its territories or possessions. A lend-lease or reciprocal aid interest shall be deemed to exist in an installation when (a) it has been furnished in complete form under lend-lease or reciprocal aid, or (b) it contains significant quantities of lend-lease or reciprocal aid materials, or (c) a significant part of the construction costs was met under lend-lease or reciprocal aid. 2. The lend-lease interest in installations transferred to the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom under paragraph 1 hereof shall be deemed to have been transferred subject to the condition that United States nationals, corporations, and associations shall receive appro- priate non-discriminatory treatment in the use and disposition of such installations. The term "appropriate" as used in this paragraph "ApwPAri." and in paragraph 3 hereof shall mean appropriate to the trade position in the area of the parties involved, and to their rights of entry or expansion in the area consistently with pertinent agreements reached either under Article VII of the Mutual Aid Agreement of February "at.434 23, 1942, or otherwise. 3. The use and disposition of all installations located outside the United Kingdom and British Colonial Dependencies and outside the United States, its territories and possessions in which a lend-lease interest (as between the two Governments) remains unextinguished by return or otherwise, and which were in civilian use on September

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