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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-MUTUAL AID SETTLEMENT-MAY 28,1947 ANNEX A DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON MAY 23, 1947 MY DEAR MR. CROSS: This is to confirm the conversations between representatives of the British Embassy and the State Department with regard to over- payment of charter hire on the ships named in the ensuing list. These ships, hereinafter referred to as the 7 (c) ships, became known by that designation in 1945 from the application to them of Article 7 (c) (second sentence) of the Agreement on Principles Having Reference to the Continuation of Coordinated Control of Merchant Shipping, dated August 5, 1944. They are the following: BLINJOE ROTA BAROE BLOEMFONTEIN KOTA INTEN BOISSEVAIN MAETSUYCKER BONTEKOE MELCHIOR TREUB BOSCHFONTEIN NOORDAM BOTH OPHIR BRASTAGI PAHUD GENERAAL MICHIELS POELAU LAUT GENERAAL VERSPYCK RUTS JAPARA SLOTERDIJK KHOEN HOEA SOMMELSDIJK KLIPFONTEIN SWARTENHONDT KOTA AGOENG TABINTA TASMAN TEGELBERG THEDENS TJISADANE TJITJALENGKA TOBA VALENTIJN VAN DEN BOSCH VAN DER LIJN VAN HEUTSZ VAN OUTHOORN VAN SPILBERGEN WELTEVREDEN The circumstances of the overpayment of charter hire on these ships were as follows: Pursuant to the "Memorandum of Arrangement Regarding Nether- land East Indies Shipping. 5th June 1942." (known as the June 5 Memorandum), signed on behalf of the Netherlands Government and the British Minister of War Transport, the Netherlands Government chartered certain ships to the United Kingdom Government, with the provision that 80 percent of the stipulated charter hire should be paid by the United Kingdom Government to the Netherlands Government in dollars. The 7 (c) ships were a part of the ships so chartered. By a collateral agreement (known as the Dollar Agreement), dated as of June 5, 1942, between the United Kingdom Government and this Government, this Government undertook to pay to the United King- dom Government the amount of dollars required for the payment of the dollar charter hire due from the United Kingdom Government to the Netherlands Government under the June 5 Memorandum. Pur- suant to these agreements dollar charter hire was paid by the United Kingdom Government to the Netherlands Government, and the United States Government reimbursed the United Kingdom Government in dollars for the dollar charter hire so paid. These arrangements ap- plied not only to those of the chartered ships that were allocated to the United States Government but also to those which continued in service with the British Ministry of War Transport within the framework of the United Maritime Authority. In 1945, more than three years after the effective date of these arrangements, the 7 (c) ships were retroactively removed from them. The change was made by an exchange of notes between the Nether- lands Embassy at London and the Foreign Office, dated June 9, 1945 and August 11, 1945, and by an exchange of notes between the 3953 Overpayment of charter hire.

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