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 61 STAT.] BRAZII-RURAL EDUCATION- a .21 1946 2305 Yb.15,1946 AGREEMENT ON RURAL EDUCATION BETWEEN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL AND THE INTER- AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC. The Ministry of Agriculture of the United States of Brazil (herein- after called the Ministry of Agriculture) and the Inter-American Educational Foundation, Inc., a corporation of the Office of Inter- American Affairs and an agency of the Government of the United States of America (hereinafter called the "Foundation"), have de- cided to enter into the following agreement to undertake a cooperative educational program to promote Inter-American understanding by bringing about a better interchange of educators, educational ideas and methods between Brazil and the United States of America, pur- suant to Resolution 28 adopted by the First Conference of Ministers and Directors of Education of the American Republics held in Panama in September and October of 1943. ['] Clause I The objectives of this cooperative educational program are: Objectives. a) the development of closer relations between teachers of voca- tional agriculture in the United States of Brazil and the United States of America; b) the interchange and training of Brazilian and American special- ists in vocational agriculture; c) the development of such other projects in the field of rural education as may be of mutual interest to the parties. Clause II The methods of carrying out the said cooperative educational Methods. program are expected to include: A. The furnishing by the Foundation of a small Field Staff of specialists in vocational agriculture to collaborate in the realization of the cooperative educational program; B. The development and realization, in cooperation with various Brazilian authorities, of programs related to: 1. Studies and surveys relative to the educational needs of Brazil and of the United States of America, especially in the field of vocational agriculture, and of the resources which are available to meet them; 2. Grants to permit Brazilian administrators, educators, and special service personnel to go to the United States of America to study, to lecture, to teach and to interchange ideas and [Not printed.]

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