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 63 STAT.] BRAZILVOCATIONAL INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION- Jly 23, Oct 21, 27, 1948 2861 Aug. 23, Sept. 29, 1949 Accordingly, this note and Your Excellency's note of August 23, 1949 will be considered as constituting a formal agreement between our two Governments with respect to the extension of the cooperative program on vocational education and will come into force on the date the Extension Agreement of October 30, 1948 and the Additional Po,p. -9. Amendment of June 30, 1949 are registered with the Accounts Tribunal of Brazil. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest and most distinguished consideration. HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. His Excellency Dr. RAUL FERNANDES, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs, Rio de Janeiro. The American Ambassador to the BrazilianMinisterforForeignAffairs EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NO. 193 Rio de Janeiro, July 28, 1948. EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to the Basic Agreement between the Government of the United States of Brazil and the Inter-American Educational Foundation, Inc., dated January 3, 1946, as amended, 60stat. 1s. which provided for the initiation and execution of the cooperative program of vocational education in Brazil. I also refer to Foreign Office note (DAI/87/542.2 (22) of July 19, 1948 [1] suggesting the consideration by our respective Governments of a further extension of that Agreement. In accordance with legislation enacted during 1947 by the Congress of the United States of America and approved by the President of my country all of the property, funds, functions, personnel, liabilities and restrictions of the Inter-American Educational Foundation, Inc., were transferred to The Institute of Inter-American Affairs, a corporate instrumentality of my Government created by such legislative action. Consequently, the participation by my Government in the cooperative program of vocational education is now being effectuated through The Institute of Inter-American Affairs. As Your Excellency knows, the Basic Agreement of January 3, 1946, 60 tat -1768 as amended, provided that the cooperative program of vocational education terminate on June 30, 1948. However, considering the mutual benefits which both governments have derived from the pro- gram, my Government agrees with the Government of Brazil that an extension of such program would be desirable. I have been advised by the Department of State in Washington, D. C. that arrangements may now be made for the Institute to continue its participation in the I Not printed.

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