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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. TROOP PAY AND MILITARY PROCUREMENT The representatives of the Government of the United States of America and the representatives of the Provisional Government of the French Republic have accepted the recommendations contained in the joint United States-French Report of the Troop Pay and United States Armed Forces Procurement Subcommittee. The aforementioned report, and the Memorandum of Agreement between the Government of the United States and the Provisional Government of the French Republic Regarding Expenditures of the United States Armed Forces in French Territory, contain the arrange- ments and procedures for the settlement of past and future troop pay and procurement of the United States Armed Forces referred to in An, p. 4176. paragraph 4 of the Memorandum of Understanding of this date be- tween the Government of the United States and the Provisional Gov- ernment of the French Republic Regarding Settlement for Lend- Lease, Reciprocal Aid, Surplus War Property and Claims. WASHINGTON, D. C. May 28, 196. FOR THE UNITED STATES SIDE FOR THE FRENCH SIDE IlAROLD GLASSER GUIiLAUME GUINDEY CARL PFORZHErIM6 REPORT OF TROOP PAY AND ARMED FORCES PROCUREMENT SUBCOMMITTEE [1] 1. The War Department has submitted the attached report (Memo- Po.4 p. 400 randum I) showing the U.S. dollar liability to France for net troop pay as approximately $29 million and for open market procurement not eligible for reciprocal aid as approximately $2 million, both for the period from D-Day to December 26,1945. Net troop pa. 2. The net troop pay was small in amount because of the large volume of local currency returned to the Army by Army personnel and by others enjoying the privileges of the PX and other Army service organizations. The detailed reasons explaining the modest amount of troop pay were discussed by the Subcommittee and are embodied in the attached memoranda by the War Department and the French representatives pt ' pp.4 42 0*. (Memoranda II and III). 3. The French and U.S. representatives on the Subcommittee agree that the extremely small amount of U.S. dollar liability on troop pay account was a result far different from that which had been antici- pated at the time when the financial agreements concerning lend-lease and civilian supplies were made with the French in 1943 and 1944. 4198
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