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 60 STAT.] INDIA-MUTUAL AID SETTLEMENT-MAY 16, 1946 India of those articles is hereby effected and the privileges of the Government of the United Kingdom and its obligations to the Gov- ernment of the United States under that Agreement with respect to such articles are no longer operative. The privileges of the Govern- ment of India and its obligations to the Government of the United States with respect to such articles shall be those defined in this Agreement and shall be compatible with the principles of international security and welfare set forth in the Charter of the United Nations. B 9Stat. 1031 . (b) The Government of the United States hereby agrees that sprcraft and related the lend-lease Harvard (AT-6 or AT-16) and Cornell (PT-26) air- craft and related spares now in the possession of the Royal Indian Air Force shall be treated in the same manner, and shall be subject to the same privileges and obligations, as the lend-lease articles cov- ered by paragraph (a) above. (c) The articles described in paragraphs (a) and (b) above will be referred to in this Agreement as "lend-lease articles in the possession of the armed forces under command of the Commander-in-Chief India". Transfer of lend- (d) The Government of the United States hereby consents to leTase articles to the transfer, for purposes compatible with the principles of interna- nired fingdo m tional security and welfare set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, of any lend-lease articles in the possession of the armed 59 Stat. 1031 . forces under command of the Commander-in-Chief India, to the United Kingdom armed forces without prior authority of the Govern- ment of the United States subject to the following understandings: (i) Subsequent reports, in such practicable form and detail as may later be mutually agreed, regarding transfers of such articles will be made to the Government of the United States; (ii) The Government of the United States reserves the right to reopen with the Government of India the question of re- quiring prior consent of the Government of the United States to such transfers, should there be a material change in the existing arrangements between the United Kingdom armed forces and the armed forces of the Government of India. (e) The Government of the United States, with respect to lend- reciht reof Uie. to lease articles in the possession of the armed forces under command of the Commander-in-Chief India, reserves the right to recapture any such articles which, as of the date upon which notice requesting return is received by the Government of India, are in the possession of the armed forces under command of the Commander-in-Chief India, although the Government of the United States does not intend to exercise generally this right of recapture. In respect of cases where it wishes from time to time to exercise its right of recapture, the Government of the United States will give reasonable notice of its intention and will provide full opportunity to the Government of India for discussion of that Government's need for the articles in question, without limiting the right of recapture. 1755

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