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 00 STAT.] UNION OF S.AFRICA-ECONOMIC SETTLEMENTS-APR. 17,1945 Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Aprill 7. 1 " South Africa respecting postwar economic settlements. Effected by [T.L.. .1 121 exchange of notes signed at Washington April 17, 1945; effective April 17, 1945. The Secretary of State to the South African Charge d'Affaires ad interim DEPABTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON April 17, 1945. Sim: I set forth below my understanding of the conclusions reached in conversations which have taken place from time to time during the past year between representatives of the Government of the United States and the Government of the Union of South Africa with regard to post-war economic settlements. Our two Governments are engaged in a cooperative undertaking, together with every other nation or people of like mind, to the end of laying the bases of a just and enduring world peace securing order under law to themselves and all nations. They are in agreement that post-war settlements must be such as to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of world-wide economic relations. To that end the Governments of the United States of America and of the Union of South Africa are prepared to cooperate in formulating a program of agreed action, 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 consumption 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 re- duction of tariffs and other trade barriers; and, in general, to the attainment of all the economic objectives set forth in the Joint Decla- ration made on August 14, 1941 by the President of the United States " stat. 1603. of America and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Our Governments have in large measure similar interests in post- war international economic policy. They undertake to enter at an early convenient date into conversations between themselves and with representatives of other United Nations with a view to determining, in the light of governing economic conditions, the best means of attaining the above-stated objectives by agreed action on the part of our two Governments and other like-minded Governments. If the Government of the Union of South Africa concurs in the foregoing statement of conclusions, I would suggest that the present note and your reply to that effect should be regarded as placing on record the understanding of our two Governments in this matter. 1579

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