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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [60 STAT. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration. E. R. STETTINIUS, Jr. J. R. JORDAAN, Esquire, Charge d'affairesad interim of the Union of South Africa. The South African Charge d'Affaires ad interim to the Secretary of State SIR, I have the honour to refer to your note of today's date setting forth your understanding of the conclusions reached in conversations between representatives of the Government of the Union of South Africa and the Government of the United States with regard to post- war economic settlements. That understanding is as follows: Our two Governments 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 reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers; and, in general, to the attainment of all the economic objectives set forth in the Joint Decla- 5Stat.16a ration made on August 14, 1941, by the President of the United States 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 deter- mining, 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. I am instructed to inform you that the Government of the Union of South Africa concurs in the foregoing statement of conclusions and agrees to your suggestion that your note of today's date, and this reply should be regarded as placing on record the understanding of our two Governments in this matter. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. J. R. JORDAAN Charge d'Affaires ad interim LEGATION OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA, WASHINGTON, D.C. 17th April, 1945. The Honourable E. R. STETTINIUS, Secretary of State of the United States, Departmentof State, Washington, D.C. 1580

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