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 63 STAT.] AUSTRIA-EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS-MAR. 11, 23, 1949 6. The present agreement shall not be considered as a modifica- tion of any existing exchange agreement between a department or agency of one of the Governments and a department or agency of the other Government. Upon the receipt of a note from you indicating that the foregoing provisions are acceptable to the Government of Austria, the Govern- ment of the United States of America will consider that this note and your reply constitute an agreement between the two Governments on this subject, the agreement to enter into force on the date of your note in reply. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. DEAN AOHESON The Honorable Dr. LUDWIG KLEINWABCHTER, Minister of Austria. The Austrian Ministerto the Secretaryof State AUSTRIAN LEGATION WASHINGTON, D: C. March 23, 1949 034400 SIn: With reference to your note of March 11, 1949, and to the conversa- tions between representatives of the Government of Austria and rep- resentatives of the Government of the United States of America in regard to the exchange of official publications, I have the honor to inform you that the Government of Austria agrees that there shall be an exchange of official publications between the two Governments in accordance with the following provisions: 1. Each of the two Governments shall furnish regularly a copy of each of its official publications which is indicated in a selected list prepared by the other Government and communicated through diplo- matic channels subsequent to the conclusion of the present agreement. The list of publications selected by each Government may be revised from time to time and may be extended, without the necessity of sub- sequent negotiations, to include any other official publication of the other Government not specified in the list, or publications of new offices which the other Government may establish in the future. 2. The official exchange office for the transmission of publications of the Government of the United States of America shall be the Smith- sonian Institution. The official exchange office for the transmission of publications of the Government of Austria shall be the Austrian National Library, International Exchange Office. 3. The publications shall be received on behalf of the United States of America by the Library of Congress and on behalf of Austria by the Administrative Library of the Federal Chancellery. 2435

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