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Volume VII: Numbers 158-183a, July 4-December 26, 1942
Academy of Political Science. New York, N. Y. r Ad-
dress by Mr. Grew before. 915.
Acheson, Dean G., Assistant Secretary of State: Ad-
dress on building in war for peace, 614.
Addresses (see also names of the individuah) :
Books and Authors luncheon, by Mr. Grew, S65.
Building in War for Peace, by Mr. Acheson, 614.
Canadian Victory Loan campaign, by Mr. Grew, 800.
China Relief, United, by Mr. Grew, 797.
Civilian Defense audience (Omaha), by Mr. Grew,
945.
Columbus Day, by Mr. Berle, 836.
Country Women in a Neighborhood of Nations, by Mr.
Bundy, 879.
Economic and Financial Control Systems, Inter-
American Conference on. by Mr. Welles, 580.
Far East, Building Our Relations With, by Mr. Han-
son, 964.
Foreign Policy, American, the Realist Base of, by Mr.
Berle, 831.
Foreign Relations, Chicago Council on, by Mr. Grew,
919.
Foreign Trade Conrention, 29th national-
World Trade dinner, by Mr. Welles, 808.
Some Economic Asijects of Our Foreign Relations,
by Mr. Geist, 813.
British-American Trade Relations After the War,
by Mr. Hawkins, 818.
Greek resistance to Axis aggression, by Mr. Welles,
876.
Herald Tribune Forum, New York, by Mr. WeUes,
939 ; by Admiral Standley, 9^3.
Iceland, anniversary of arrival of American troops
in, by Mr. Berle. 618.
Industries, Associated, meeting, by Mr. Grew, 871.
Italy, The Position of, by Mr. Berle, 925.
Manufacturers' Association, Illinois, by Mr. Grew, 992.
Poland, third anniversary of German attack on, by
Mr. Berle, 733.
Political Science, Academy of, by Mr. Grew, 915.
Red Cross Nurses' Aid rally (Rockefeller Center), by
Mr. Grew, 777.
Remington Arms Company, by Mr. Grew, 758.
Republican Club, National, by Mr. Grew, S6S.
Return from Japan (on exchange ship "Gripsholm"),
radio address on occasion of, by Mr. Grew, 719.
Richmond War and Community Fund meeting, by Mr.
Grew, 851.
Addresses — Continued.
Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial, dedication, by Mr.
Welles, 991.
Student Assembly, International, by President
Roosevelt, 729.
Trinity College commencement, by Mr. Grew, 1018.
The War and Human Freedom, by Secretary Hull,
639.
War Finance Conference, by Mr. Grew, 845.
War-rally luncheon (Syracuse), by Mr. Grew, 763.
Advisory committees to Department of State, 780.
Africa. See French North Africa ; French West Africa.
Agreements, international. See Treaties, agreements,
etc.
Agriculture :
Education, advisory committee on inter-American
cooperation, 781.
Experiment stations In Ecuador and El Salvador,
establishment and operation. 1013.
Aguirre, Salvador. Honduran Foreign Minister : Cor-
respondence, U.S. relations with Vichy govern-
ment, 939.
Alabama State Chamber of Commerce: Address by
Mr. Berle before, 831.
Albania: Resistance to Italian occupation. 998.
Alcohol, purchase by U. S. from Mexico. 633.
Algeria : American military operations in French North
Africa, message from President Roosevelt to
Governor General Chatel, 907.
Aliens, enemy :
Nationals of Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania in
U. S., 650.
Transportation of, general license authorizing. 634.
Allen, Percy F., Assistant Director of Personnel of the
Department : Retirement, 985.
Alliance and mutual assistance, treaty between United
Kingdom and Soviet Union (1942), text, 781.
Allied powers. See United Nations.
Allocations : Commodities from U.S. to other American
republics. 5S0.
American Gifts Committee in Great Britain : Control
of relief contributions from U.S.. 629.
American Hemisphere Exports, OfBce of the Depart-
ment : Acting Assistant Chief, designation of
Lester S. Dame. 774 ; of Frederick T. Merrill, 744.
American republics (see also Commissions, committees,
etc. ; Conferences, congresses, etc. ; War ; and the
individual countries) :
Commodities allocated by U.S. to, 580.
1087
1088
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American republics — Continued.
Counselors of Embassy for economic affairs at U.S.
missions in, 951.
Cultural leaders, visits to U.S., from Argentina, 595,
624 ; Brazil, 634, 651 ; Chile, 595, 968 ; El Salva-
dor, 828, 950; Honduras, 950; Mexico, 929, 951,
985, 1010, 1011 ; Paraguay, 858 ; Peru, 840, 894 ;
Venezuela, 651, 984.
Cultural relations (q.v.) —
Advisory committees to Department of State, 780.
Agreements (1942) between Argentina and Spain,
930; between Brazil and Venezuela, 1012.
Exchange with Axis powers of diplomatic, consular,
and other personnel, 579, 632, 713.
Highway, Inter-American, plan for completion, 661.
Mutual-aid agreements with U.S., 972.
Oil distribution to, from U.S., 620.
Students in U.S. from, meteorology courses, 1010.
U.S. employees, detail to, 625.
American Republics, Division of the Department : As-
sistant Chief, designation of John C. Dreier, 625 ; of
Robert F. Woodward, 596.
Americans :
Citizens residing in Canada, military service, ar-
rangement with Canada regarding, 789.
Entry into and departure from U.S., regulations.
Repatriation from Europe, 579; from Far East, 713.
Amity, treaty of, China and Cuba (1942), signature,
972.
Anglo-American Caribbean Commission, U.S. Section :
Duties, 1011.
Secretary (Weston), appointment, 660.
Appeals on Visa Cases, Board of, report, 982.
Appleby, Paul H., Under Secretary of Agriculture :
Special Assistant to Secretary of State, in charge of
Office of Foreign Territories, designation, 971,
985.
Appropriations, State Department, 1943, analysis, 670.
Aranha, Oswaldo, Brazilian Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs :
Correspondence with Secretary Hull —
Anniversary of Brazilian independence, 771.
Declaration of war on Germany and Italy by
Brazil, 723.
Argentina (see also American republics) :
American military operations in Fi-ench North
Africa, message from Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs (Guinazu) to Secretary Hull, 913.
Cultural leaders, visits to U.S., 595, 624.
Death of ex-Presldent Ortiz, 634.
Sinking of steamer (Rio Tercero), letter of appre-
ciation for U.S. assistance to crew, 579.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Commercial, with Spain (1942), signature, 897.
Cultural, with Spain (1942), signature, 930.
Argentina — Continued.
Treaties, agreements, etc. — Continued.
Trade,
With U.S. (1941), supplementary proclamation,
1001.
With Venezuela (1942), signature, 1012.
Wheat, memorandum of agreement (1942), ap-
proval, 582; text (including draft convention),
583.
Armed forces, U.S. See War.
Armies in the field (Red Cross Convention), 622.
Armistice Day proclamation, 895.
Arroyo del Rio, Carlos A., President of Ecuador:
Correspondence, American military operations in
French North Africa, 912.
Visit to U.S., 929, 949.
Atlantic Charter: Anniversary of signing, message
from President Roosevelt to Prime Minister
Churchill, 697.
Australia :
Treaties, agreements, etc. — ■
Lend-lease aid, reciprocal, to U.S. and Its armed
forces (1942), signature, 734; text, 736.
Wheat, memorandum of agreement (1942), ap-
proval, 582; text (including draft convention),
583.
Wool, reduction In export price, 983.
Austria, status of, statement by Secretary Hull, 660.
Aviation :
Training schools In Mexico, 660.
Transportation by air, convention (1929), adherence
by Liberia, lOOl.
Awards :
Legion of Merit, 895.
Medal for Merit, 1022.
Axis powers. See Germany ; Italy ; Japan.
Babassu and castor oil : Purchase by U. S. from Brazil,
725.
Baldomir, General Alfredo, President of Uruguay:
Correspondence, American military operations In
French North Africa, 913.
Balfour Declaration, 25th anniversary, 885.
Batista, General Fulgencio, President of Cuba :
Correspondence, American military operations in
EYeuch North Africa, 911.
Visit to U. S., 929, 1000.
Belgian Congo : Adherence to international opium con-
vention of 1912, 705.
Berle, Adolf A., Jr., Assistant Secretary of State :
Address on anniversary of arrival of American troops
in Iceland, 618 ; on anniversary of German at-
tack on Poland, 733 ; on Columbus Day, 836 ; on
position of Italy in War, 925 ; on realist base of
American foreign policy, 831.
Correspondence, military service of American citizens
residing in Canada, 790.
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1089
Bevans, Charles I., Treaty Division of the Department :
Alternate liaison officer with Office of Fishery Co-
ordination of Interior Department, designation,
715.
Biddle, Anthony J. Drexel, Jr.: Confirmation of nomi-
nation as American Ambassador to Yugoslavia and
Greece, 792.
Bjornsson, Sveinn, Regent of Iceland : Correspondence,
national holiday of Iceland, 984.
Blocked nationals. See Proclaimed List of Certain
Blocked Nationals.
Boards. See Commissions, committees, etc.
Bolivia (see also American republics) :
American military operations in French North
Africa, message from President Penaranda to
President Roosevelt, 908.
Economic cooperation vrith U.S., 621, 634, 702.
Health and Sanitation Mission, U.S., to, 662.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Military mission, with U.S. (1942), signature, 704.
Rubber, with U.S. (1942), signature, 633.
Sanitation, with U. S. (1942), signature, 703.
Books and Authors luncheon, address by Mr. Grew, 865.
Brazil (see also American republics) :
Cultural leaders, visits to U.S., 634, 651.
Declaration of war on Germany and Italy, message
from President Roosevelt to President Vargas,
710; from Secretary Hull to Foreign Minister
Aranha, 711, and reply, 723.
Indei)endence, anniversary message from President
Roosevelt to President Vargas, 751 ; from Secre-
tary Hull to Foreign Minister Aranha, 752 ; and
reply, 771.
Sanitary Conference, Pan American, 11th, at Rio de
Janeiro, 839.
Sinking of vessels by Axis submarines, message from
President Roosevelt to President Vargas, and
reply, 710.
Technical Mission, U.S., to, 740.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Babassu and castor oil, with U.S. (1942), 725.
Coffee, cocoa, and Brazil nuts, with U.S. (1942),
signature, 860.
Cultural interchange, with Venezuela (1942), sig-
nature, 1012.
Stabilization of exchange, with U.S. (1037), ex-
tension, 622.
Sugar regulation (1937), protocol of extension
(1942), signature, 841.
Brazil nuts, purchase by U.S., 860.
British Guiana :
Rubber agreement with U.S. (1942), signature, 698.
British Honduras: Rubber agreement with U.S. (1942),
signature, 713.
British Isles. See Great Britain.
Broadcasting, judicial decision regarding contract af-
fected by North American Regional Broadcasting
Agreement (1937), 897.
Bulgarian nationals in U.S., alien enemies, 650.
Bundy, Vernon E., Division of Commercial Policy and
Agreements : Address on role of country women
in a neighborhood of nations, 879.
Cale, Edward G., Division of Commercial Policy and
Agreements of the Department : Alternate repre-
sentative on Interdepartmental Sugar Policy Com-
mittee, designation, 625.
Canada :
Armed forces, transfer of U.S. citizens from Canadian
to U.S., 711.
Great Lakes Fisheries, International Board of In-
quiry for, report, 858.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Migratory birds, U.S. and Great Britain (1916),
678.
Military service of American citizens residing in
Canada, with U.S. (1942), text, 789.
Post-war economic settlements, with U.S. (1942),
text, 977.
Wheat, memorandum of agreement (1942), ap-
proval, 582; text (including draft convention),
583.
Victory Loan campaign, address by Mr. Grew, 800.
Canadian-American Military Board, action by, 711.
Cartas Andino, General Tiburcio, President of Hondu-
ras: Correspondence, American military opera-
tions in French North Africa, 912.
Caribbean Commission, Anglo-American, U.S. Section :
Duties, 1011.
Secretary (Weston), appointment, 660.
Caribbean Office of the Department :
Assistant Chief, designation of Warden McK. Wilson,
752.
Duties as executive agency for U. S. Section, Anglo-
American Caribbean Commission, 1011.
Carmona, General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso, President
of Portugal : Correspondence, American military
operations in French North Africa, 906.
Carr, Robert M., Assistant Chief, Division of Commer-
cial Policy and Agreements of the Department:
Representative on Interdepartmental Sugar Policy
Committee, designation, 625.
Castor Oil and babassu : Purchase by U. S. from Brazil,
725.
Catudal, Honorg Marcel, Assistant Chief, Division of
Commercial Policy and Agreements of the Depart-
ment : Designation, 774.
Central Translating Office of the Department : Duties,
791.
1090
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
Chapin, Selden, Assistant Chief, Division of tlie Amer-
ican Republics of tlie Department : Executive sec-
retary of Committee on Political Planning, appoint-
ment, 896.
Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo of China:
Correspondence —
Anniversary of Japanese attacli on China, 620, 633.
Extraterritoriality in China, relinquishment by
U.S., 839.
Radiophoto service, U.S. and China, 1010.
Chief Clerk and Administrative Assistant of the Depart-
ment :
Designation of Millard L. Ivenestrick as, 692.
Office of, creation, 691.
Chile {see also American republics) :
American military operations in French North Africa,
messages to President Roosevelt from officials
and organizations, 909-910.
Cultural leaders, visits to U.S., 595, 968.
Independence, anniversary message from President
Roosevelt, 771.
Inter-American Congress on Social Planning at
Santiago, 748.
President RIos, proposed visit to U.S., 701, 838.
China (see also Far East) :
Ambassador to U.S. (Wei), credentials, 824.
National anniver.sary, message from President Roose-
velt, 808.
Eadiophoto service with U.S., opening, 1009.
Relief, United China, address by Mr. Grew for, 797.
Resistance to Japanese aggression, correspondence of
General Chiang, President Roosevelt, and Secre-
tary Hull, 619, 620, 633.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Amity, with Cuba (1942), signature, 972.
Extraterritoriality in. relinqnishmeut by U.S.,
Negotiations, 805-808.
Comments of President Roosevelt and General
Chiang Kai-shek, 839.
Draft submitted to Chinese Ambassador, S54.
Friendship, with Iraq (1942), ratification by China,
679 ; text, 680.
Stabilization of exchange, with U.S. (1941), exten-
sion, 623.
Christmas messages, 1942:
President Roosevelt to armed forces of U.S. allies,
1017.
Secretary Hull to the Nation, 1023.
Churchill, Winston S., Prime Minister of Great Britain:
Correspondence, American contributions for British
relief, 629.
Civilian Defense, Office of, Omaha, Nebr., address by
Mr. Grew, 945.
Civilian populations in occupied countries, crimes
against, 709, 797.
Claim Board, establishment, 715,
Claims convention, U.S. and Mexico (1941), payment
under, 968.
Cocoa, purchase by U.S. from Brazil, 860.
Coffee :
Inter-American agreement (1940), imports into U.S.
from non-signatory countries, 635, 724.
Purchase by U.S. from Brazil, agreement (1942),
860.
Colombia (see also American republics) :
American military operations in French North Africa,
message from President Lopez to President
Roosevelt, 910; reply, 936.
President Lopez —
Inauguration, message from President Roosevelt,
689.
Visit to U.S., 595, 621, 661.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Rubber, with U. S. (1942), signature, 595.
Columbus Day address by Mr. Berle, 836.
Commerce, international (see also Foreign trade, U.S.;
Treaties, agreements, etc.) :
Agreement, Argentina and Spain (1942), 897.
Coffee, imports from countries not signatories of
inter-American coffee agreement, 635, 724.
Foreign Trade Convention, 29th national, address by
Under Secretary Welles, 808 ; by Mr. Geist, 813 ;
by Mr. Hawkins, 818.
Free movement of persons, property, and informa-
tion into and out of U.S., 892.
Relations between Peru and Venezuela, 1012.
Silver, exportation by Mexico to U.S., 714.
U.S. and—
Dominican Republic, 952.
Iran, 664.
U.S.S.R., 662, 693.
Wheat, memorandum of agreement concerning trade
in, 582.
Wool, Australian and New Zealand, reduction in
export price, 983.
Commercial Policy and Agreements, Division of the
Department: Assistant Chief, designation of
Honors Marcel Catudal, 774.
Commissions, committees, etc. :
International —
Caribbean Commission, Anglo-American, 660, 1011.
Food Board, Combined, U.S. and Great Britain, 791.
Great Lakes Fisheries, Board of Inquiry for, 858.
Military Board, Canadian-American, 711.
Political Defense, Emergency Advisory Committee
for, 936, 999.
Social Security, Inter-American Committee on, 970.
Sugar Council, 678.
War Crimes, United Nations Commission for In-
vestigation of, 797.
National —
Claim Board, 715.
Cultural relations, advisory committees, 780.
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Commissions, committees, etc. — Contimied.
National — Continued.
Fisheries Committee, War Production Board, 715.
Health and Sanitation Mission to Bolivia, 662.
Liaison Committee ( U.S. ) of the Associated Coun-
try Women of the World, 879.
Medal for Merit Board, 1022.
Motion Pictures, Interdivlsional Committee, 792.
Reciprocity Information, Committee for, 725.'
Sugar Policy Committee, Interdepartmental, 62.5.
Technical missions, U.S. to —
Brazil, 740.
India, 749.
Mexico, 954.
Visa Cases, Board of Appeals on, 982.
War Relief Agencies, Committee on, 657.
War Relief Control Board, 658, 791.
Commodities allocated by U.S. to other American re-
publics, 580.
Conferences, congresses, etc. :
International —
Country Women of the World, Associated, Inter-
American Conference, at Kansas City, Mo.,
879.
Economic and Financial Control, Systems of, In-
ter-American Conference, at Washington, 580.
Labor Conference, 624, 724.
Sanitary Conference, 11th Pan American, at Rio
de Janeiro, 715, 724, 839.
Social Planning, Inter-American Congress on, at
Santiago, 743, 970.
Student Assembly, at Washington, 729.
Telecommunication Union, at Bern, 652.
Wheat Council, at Washington, 670, 688.
Wheat Meeting, at Washington, 582.
National —
Associated Industries meeting, at Boston, Mass.,
871.
Foreign Relations, Chicago Council on, 919.
Foreign Trade Council, 29th convention, at New
York, 808, 813, 818.
Political Science, Academy of, at New York, N. Y.,
915.
War Finance Conference, at New York, 845.
Congress, U.S. See United States Congress.
Consular and diplomatic personnel. See Diplomatic
representatives in U.S. ; United States Foreign
Service.
Consular Convention, U.S. and Mexico (1942), 704.
Conventions. See Conferences, Congresses, etc. ;
Treaties, agreements, etc.
Costa Rica (see also American republics) :
Independence, anniversary message from President
Roosevelt, 771.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Prisoners of war (1929), adherence, 653.
Country Women of the World, Associated, Inter-
American Conference at Kansas City, Mo., address
by Mr. Bundy to U.S. Liaison Committee, 879.
Credentials. See Diplomatic representatives in U.S.
Crimes against civilians in occupied countries, 709, 797.
Croatia: Telecommunication convention (1932), ad-
herence, 652.
Cuba (see also American republics) :
American military operations in French North Africa,
message from President Batista to President
Roosevelt, 911; reply, 937.
President Batista, visit to U.S., 929, 1000.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Amity, with China (1942), signature, 972.
Military and naval cooperation, with U.S. (1942),
signature, 750.
Stabilization of exchange, with U.S. (1942), signa-
ture, 623.
Cultural leaders. See American republics ; and the in-
dividual countries.
Cultural relations. See American republics ; Far East.
Cultural Relations Division of the Department: Ad-
visory committees to, 780.
Customs : Imports from countries not signatories of
inter-American coffee agreement, 724.
Czechoslovakia :
National holiday, message from President Roosevelt
to President BeneS, 875.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Mutual aid, with U.S. (1942), text, 607.
Dahlquist, General John B., Acting Military Represent-
ative of U. S. : Correspondence, reciprocal lend-
lease aid, U.S. and Fighting France, 740.
Dame, Lester S., Acting Assistant Chief, American
Hemisphere Exports Office of the Department:
Designation, 774.
Dario Ojeda, Carlos, Acting Vice President, Emergency
Advisory Committee for Political Defense : Corre-
spondence, American military operations in French
North Africa, 936.
Darlan, Admiral Jean F^angois :
Assassination, statement by Secretary Hull, 1017.
Political arrangement with, 935.
Statement regarding support of United Nations, 10O7.
Declaration by United Nations (1942) : Adherence by
Ethiopia, 805.
Declarations of war. See War; and the individual
countries.
Decorations :
Legion of Merit, 895.
Medal for Merit, 1022.
Defense, hemispheric: Political Defense, Emergency
Advisory Committee for, 999.
1092
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
Defeuse areas in Liberia, U.S. jurisdiction, 979.
de Gaulle, General Charles : Corre.spondenee, appoint-
ment of U.S. representatives to Free French Na-
tional Committee, 614.
Departmental orders. See State, Department of.
Departmental Personnel, Division of: Creation, 743.
Designs : Arrangement concerning the international de-
posit of industrial designs and models (1934), ad-
herence by Tunisia, 931.
Despradel, Arturo, Dominican Minister of Foreign
Affairs: Correspondence, commercial agreement
with U.S., 953.
Diamantopoulos, Cimon P., Greek Ambassador to U.S. :
Credentials, 825.
Dickey, John S., Special Consultant to Division of Com-
mercial Policy and Agreements of the Department :
Designation, 1023.
Digest of International Law : Publication of vol. IV, 957.
Diplomatic representatives in U.S. :
Axis nationals, exchange for Americans, 632.
Credentials, 824, 825, 826, 968.
French, exchange for Americans, 939.
Dixon, Sir Owen, Australian Minister to U.S. : Corre-
spondence, reciprocal lend-lease aid, 736.
Dominican Republic (see also American republics) :
American military operations in French North Africa,
message from President Trujillo to President
Roosevelt, 912 ; to Secretary Hull, 914.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Commerce, with U.S. (1942), signature, 952; text,
953.
Dreier, John C, Assistant Chief, Division of the Amer-
ican Republics of the Department: Designation,
625.
Drottningholm (steamship) :
Return to Goteborg, Sweden, with Axis nationals,
632.
Safe-conduct for future voyages, withdrawal by Ger-
many, 579.
Dunn, James C, Political Adviser, Department of State :
Chairman of Committee on Political Planning of
the Department, designation, 896.
East Indian Services: Appointment of U.S. represen-
tative for liaison with Netherlands officials, 660.
Economic and Financial Control Systems, Inter-Amer-
ican Conference at Washington : Address by Under
Secretary Welles, 580.
Economics (see also Finance; Lend-lease aid; Mutual-
nid agreements) :
American Embassy in London, Economic Warfare
Division, 770.
Collaboration, U.S. and Bolivia, 621, 634, 702.
Counselors of Embassy for economic affairs at U.S.
missions in other American republics, appoint-
ment, 951.
Economics — Continued.
Foreign relations, U.S., economic aspects, address by
Mr. Geist, 813.
Foreign Service officers, instruction in economic war-
fare, 887.
French North Africa, assistance to, 713; mission to,
1008.
Post-war settlements, U.S. and Canada, 977.
Ecuador (see also American republics) :
American military operations in French North Africa,
message from President Arroyo to President
Roosevelt, 912 ; reply, 937.
National anniversary, message from President Roose-
velt to President Arroyo, 702.
President Arroyo, visit to U.S., 929, 949.
Treaties, agreements, etc.—
Agricultural experiment station in Ecuador, with
U.S. (1942), signature, 1013.
Rul)ber, with U.S. (1942), signature, 650.
Stabilization of exchange, with U.S. (1942), signa-
ture, 623.
Education :
Cultural interchange between Brazil and Venezuela,
1012.
Historical studies, Peru and Venezuela, 1013.
Pan American Institute of Geography and History,
1030.
Egypt :
French warships at Alexandria, U.S. proposals, 631.
King Farouk, gift to American forces in Egypt, 1000.
Lend-lease equipment to, 914.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Opium (1912), adherence, 597.
Statistics of causes of death (1934), cancelation
of application of agreement to Burdein, 693.
Eisenhower, General Dwight D. : Political arrangement
with Admiral Darlan, 935.
El Salvador (see also American republics) :
American Minister (Thurston), confirmation of nom-
ination, 929.
Cultural leaders, visits to U.S., 828, 950.
Independence, anniversary message of President
Roosevelt, 772.
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Araujo), death, 690.
Treaties, agreements, etc.—
Agricultural experiment station in El Salvador,
with U.S. (1942), signature, 1013.
Prisoners of war (1929), adherence, 622.
Red Cross Convention (1929), adherence, 622.
Rubber, with U.S. (1942), signature, 723.
Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense,
999.
Employees of U.S., detail to foreign governments, 625.
Enemy aliens. See Aliens, enemy.
Espil, Felipe A., Argentine Ambassador In Washing-
ton : Correspondence, U.S. assistance to crew of
"Bio Tercero", 579.
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Ethiopia :
Declaration by United Nations (1042), adlierence,
805.
Lend-lease aid to, 999.
War against Axis powers, declaration, 1009.
Europe (sec also War; and the individual countries) :
War crimes against civilian populations, 709; in-
vestigation by United Nations, 797.
European Affairs, Division of the Department :
Assistant Chief, designation of Samuel Beber, 596.
Responsibility for non-military matters In countries
occupied by forces of United Nations, 971.
Executive agreements. See Treaties, agreements, etc.
Executive orders :
Coffee agreement, termination of quota-allocation for
non-signatory countries, 63-1.
Employees of U.S., detail to foreign governments, 625.
Legion of Merit, award, 89.5.
Medal for Merit, award, 1022.
War Relief Control Board, establishment, 658.
Export-Import Bank of Washington : Credit to Mexico
to aid in construction of steel plant, 705.
Exports. See under Commerce, international.
Extraterritoriality in China, relinquishment by U.S.,
805-808, 839, 854.
Far East (see also the individual countries) :
Cultural relations, address by Mr. Hanson, 964.
Extraterritoriality in China, relinquishment by U.S.,
905-808, 839, 854.
Mukden incident, 11th anniversary. 773.
Prisoners of war held by Japan, relief, 741, 768.
Radiophoto service, U.S. and China, 1009.
Repatriation of Americans from, 713.
War against Japan, declaration by Ethiopia, 1009.
Farouk I, King of Egypt: Gift to American forces in
Egypt, 1000.
Fats and oils, purchase by U.S. and United Kingdom for
United Nations, 791.
Fellowships and professorships between American re-
publics : Advisory committee on, 780.
Fighting France. See France ; Free French National
Committee.
Finance (see also Economics; Lend-lease aid) :
Agreement, supplementary, U.S. and Haiti (1942),
signature, 10O2.
Cooperation, U.S. and Bolivia, 702.
Credit, U.S. to Mexico, for construction of highway,
704; of steel plant, 705.
Mexican payment to U.S. under claims convention,
968.
Mission of U.S. to Iran, 984.
Ransom payments to Germany for persons in occu-
pied countries, violation of Treasury freezing
regulations, 962.
512716 — 43 2
Finance — Continued.
Stabilization of exchange, agreements, U.S. and — •
Brazil (1937), extension, 622.
China (1941), extension, 623.
Cuba (1942). signature, 623.
Ecuador (1942), signature, 623.
Iceland (1942), signature, 623.
Systems of Economic and Financial Control, Inter-
American Conference, at Washington, .580.
War Finance Conference, at New York, N. Y., address
by Mr. Grew, 845.
Finland : Consular representation between U.S. and,
cancelation, 632.
Fisheries :
Great Lakes, International Board of Inquiry, U.S.
and Canada, report, 858.
Interior Department, Office of Fishery Coordination,
designation of Leo D. Sturgeon as liaison officer
of State Department and of Charles I. Bevans as
alternate, 71.5.
War Production Board, Committee of, designation of
Leo D. Sturgeon as State Department repre-
sentative, 715.
Food Board, U.S. and Great Britain, purchase of fats
and oils, 791.
Foote, Walter A., U.S. representative for liaison with
Netherlands officials : Appointment, 660.
Foreign Activity Correlation, Division of the Depart-
ment : Acting Assistant Chief, designation of Lloyd
D. Yates, 692.
Foreign Funds Control, Division of the Department:
Assistant Chiefs, appointments and designations —
Meltzer, Bernard D., 677.
Miller, Edward G., Jr., 677.
Reinstein, Jacques J., 744.
Tannenwald, Tlieodore, Jr. (Acting), 744.
Foreign policy, U.S. :
Address by Mr. Berle, 831.
Extraterritoriality in China, relinquishment, 805-808,
839, 854.
Free French National Committee, appointment of
U.S. representatives to consult with, 613.
French North Africa^
American military operations.
President Roosevelt's message to French people,
891 ; to officials of France, Portugal, Spain,
Algeria, and Tunisia, and replies, 904.
White House statement, 891.
Economic assistance to, 713.
Political arrangement with Admiral Darlan, 985.
French West Africa —
Political arrangement with Admiral Darlan, 935.
Madagascar, British occupation, 750.
Vichy government, U.S. policy toward, statements
by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, 903.
Foreign Relations, Chicago Council on, address by Mr.
Grew, 919.
1094
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Foreign Relations of the United States : The Paris Peace
Conference, 1919: Publication of vols. I and II,
1024.
Foreign Service. See United States Foreign Service.
Foreign students in U. S. : Advisory committee, 781.
Foreign Territories, Office of the Department :
Establishment, 971.
Functions, 985.
Foreign trade, U. S. {sec also Commerce, international;
Lend-lease aid; Treaties, agreements, etc.) :
Address by Mr. Bundy, 879; by Mr. Geist, 813; by
Mr. Hawkins, 818; by Under Secretary Welles,
808.
Agreements with —
Mexico (19-12), signature, 1029; analysis, 1031.
Soviet Union (1942), signature, 6(52; text, 663;
proclamation by U. S. Pre.sident, 693.
Uruguay (1942), signature, 653; analysis, 654c;
proclamation by U. S. President, 929.
Allocations to other American republics, 580.
Coffee agreement, inter- American (1940), quota-al-
locations for non-signatory countries, termina-
tion, 635; imports from non-signatory countries,
724.
Iran, 664-669.
Proclaimed list of blocked nationals, 650, 688, 698,
742, 780, 835, 893, 928, 948, 1022.
Fotitch, Constantin, Yugoslavian Ambassador to U. S. :
Credentials, 826.
France :
American Ambassador (Leahy), resignation, 651.
Bombings of Le Havre and Rouen, reply of American
Charge (Tuck) to protest against, 750.
Diplomatic and consular representatives in U. S., ex-
change for Americans in Prance, 939.
Free French National Committee, cooperation of U. S.
with, 613, 739.
Ijabor, conscription for use in Germany, 770.
Madagascar, occupation by British military
forces, 750.
Protest to Mar.shal P^tain by French patriots, state-
ment of Secretary Hull, 751.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Lend-lease aid, reciprocal, U. S. and Fighting
France (1942), signature, 734; text, 739.
Postal, universal (1939), ratification, including
French colonies, 693 ; arrangements effective
for French West .Africa, 888.
Vichy government, U. S. policy —
Honduran .support, message from Minister of For-
eign Affairs (Aguirre) to Secretary Hull, and
reply, 939.
Statements by President Roosevelt and Secretary
Hull, 903.
Warships at Alexandria, Egypt, U. S. proposals, 631.
Franco y Bahamonde, General Francisco, Chief of
Spanish State : Correspondence regarding Amer-
can military operations in French North Africa,
907.
Fraser, Peter, Prime Minister of New Zealand : Visit
to U.S., 723.
Free French National Committee :
Lend-lease, reciprocal-aid agreement, U.S. and Fight-
ing France (1942), 739.
U. S. representatives to consult with, appoint-
ment, 613.
French North Africa ;
American military operations —
Congratulatory messages to President Roosevelt
from other American republics, and replies, 908,
936 ; from Iraq, 938 ; reply, 962.
Messages of President Roosevelt to officials of
France, Portugal, Spain, Algeria, and Tunisia,
and replies, 904 ; to Sultan of Morocco ( Sidi
Mohammed), and reply, 961.
Radio message of President Roosevelt to French
people, 891.
White House statement, 891.
Assassination of Admiral Darlan, statement of Secre-
tary Hull at time of, 1017.
Economic assistance by U.S., 713.
Economic mission, U.S., to, 1008.
Political arrangement with Admiral Darlan, 935.
Support of United Nations by French in, 1007, 1008.
French West Africa :
Political arrangement with Admiral Darlan. 935.
Postal convention, universal (1939), arrangements
effective for, 888.
Friendship treaty, China and Iraq (19421, 679.
Geist, Raymond H., Chief, Division of Commercial Af-
fairs of the Department: Address on economic as-
pects of foreign relations of U.S., 813.
Geneva conventions. See Prisoners of War Conven-
tion ; Red Cross Convention.
Geography and History, Pan American Institute of,
1030.
George II, King of Greece: Conference with President
Roosevelt, joint statement, 601.
Germany :
Attack on Poland, 3rd anniversary, 732, 733.
Conscription of French labor for use in, 770; of Lux-
embourg citizens into Army of, 770.
Crimes against civilian populations in occupied coun-
tries, 709, 797.
Extermination of Jewish race, policy, 1009.
Extortion of ransom payments for persons in coun-
tries occupied by. 962.
Safe-conduct for S.S. "Drottningholm", withdrawal,
579.
Spanish officials, false reports of delivery to Spain,
963.
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1095
Germany — Continued.
War against, declaration by Brazil, 710 ; by Ethiopia,
1009.
Great Britain :
Atlantic Charter, anniversary message from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, 6!)7.
Balfour Declaration, 25th anniversary, 885.
Caribbean Commission, Anglo-American, 660, 1011.
Conferences iu London between British and American
officials regarding conduct of war, 750.
Economic collaboration with U.S., 770.
Madagascar, occupation by British forces, 750.
Post-war trade relations with U.S., address by Mr.
Hawkins, 818.
Relief contributions from U.S., correspondence of
Prime Minister Churchill and President Roose-
velt, 629.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Alliance and mutual assistance, with Soviet Union
(1942), exchange of ratifications, 781; text,
781.
Lend-lease aid, reciprocal, to U.S. and its armed
forces (1942), text, 734.
Loadline, international (1930), modifications pro-
posed, 859.
Migratory birds, with U.S. in respect of Canada
(1916), amendatory regulations, 678.
Military equipment to Soviet Union (1942), signa-
ture, 805.
Wheat, memorandum of agreement (1942), ap-
proval, 582; text (including draft convention),
583.
Great Lakes Fisheries, International Board of Inquiry
for, U.S. and Canada, report, 858.
Greece :
Ambassador to U.S. (Diamantopoulos), credentials,
825.
American Ambassador to (Biddle), confirmation of
nomination, 792.
Axis aggression, resistance, message from President
Roosevelt to Greek Ambassador, 876 ; address by
Under Secretary Welles, 876.
Relief shipments of food to, 686.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Mutual aid, with U.S. (1942), joint statement by
President Roosevelt and King George, 001 ;
text, 602.
Grew, Joseph C, Special Assistant to the Secretary of
State (former American Ambassador to Japan) :
Appointment, 780.
Addresses —
Books and Authors luncheon, New York, 865.
Canadian National Victory Loan campaign,
Toronto, 800.
Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 919.
China Relief (United), New York, 797.
Civilian Defense audience, Omaha, 945.
Giiew, Joseph ("., Special Assistant to the Secretary of
State — Continued.
Addresses — Continued.
Illinois Manufacturers' Association dinner, Chicago,
993.
Industries, Associated, Boston, 871.
National Republican Club, New York, 868.
Political Science, Academy of. New York, 915.
Red Cross Nurses' Aid rally. New York, 777.
Remington Arms Company, Bridgeport, 758.
Return to U.S., radio address, 719.
Trinity College commencement, Hartford, 1018.
War and Community Fund meeting, Richmond, 851.
War Finance Conference, New York, 845.
War-rally luncheon, Syracuse, 763.
Gripsholm (steamship) : Arrival in N. Y. with American
and other nationals from Far East, 713.
Guardia, Ricardo Adolfo de la, President of Panama :
Correspondence, American military operations in
French North Africa, 913.
Guatemala (see also American republics) :
American military operations iu French North Africa,
message from President Ubico to President
Roo.sevelt, 912; reply, 937.
Independence, anniversary message from President
Roosevelt, 772. .
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Lend-lease, with U.S. (1942), signature, 972.
Rubber, with U.S. (1942), signature, 752.
Visit to U.S. of Minister of Foreign Affairs (Salazar),
949, 984.
Guinazu, Enrique Ruiz, Argentine Minister of Foreign
Affairs : Correspondence, American military opera-
tions in French North Africa, 913.
Haakon VII, King of Norway: Birthday message from
President Roosevelt, (>91.
Hackworth, "Digest of International Law" ; Publica-
tion of vol. IV, 957.
Halle Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia : Correspondence,
adherence by Ethiopia to Declaration by United
Nations, 805.
Haiti (see uUo American republics) :
American military operations iu French North Africa,
message from President Lescot to President
Roosevelt, 912; reply, 937.
Minister to U.S. (Liautaud), credentials, 968.
Telecommunication Union, International, resignation
as member, 653.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Finance, with U.S. (1942), signature, 10O2.
Halifax, Viscount, British Ambassador to U.S. : Corre-
spondence, reciprocal lend-lease aid, 734.
Hanson, Haldore, of Division of Cultural Relations of
the Department: Address on relations with Far
East, 964.
1096
Hawkins, Harry C, Chief, Division of Commercial
Policy and Agreements of the Department : Address
on British-American trade relations after the war,
818.
Health :
Bolivia —
Mission from U.S., 662.
Sanitation agreement with U.S. (1942), 703.
Statistics of causes of death, international agreement
(1934), cancelation of application to Burdein,
Egypt, 693.
Herald Tribune Forum. See New York Herald Tribune
Forum.
Highways :
Inter-American, plan for completion, 661.
Mexico, U.S. credit for construction, 704.
Hispanic-Argentine cultural relations, agreement,
(1942), 930.
History :
Pan American Institute of Geography and History,
1030.
Studies, agreement between Venezuela and Peru, 1013.
Honduras (see also American republics) :
American military operations in French North Africa,
message from President Carias Andino to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, 912 ; and reply, 937 ; from Min-
ister of Foreign Affairs to Secretary Hull, and
reply, 939.
Cultural leader, visit to U.S., 950.
Independence, anniversary message from President
Roosevelt, 772.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Rubber, with U.S. (1042), signature, 690.
Hosmer, Charles B., Foreign Service Inspector : Death,
951.
Hull, Cordell (see also State, Department of) :
Addresses, statements, etc. —
Albanian resistance to Italian occupation, 998.
Austria, status, 660.
Balfour Declaration, 2r)th anniversary, 885.
Christmas message. 1023.
Country Women of the World, Associated, U.S.
Liaison Committee, message to, 879.
Darlan, assassination of, 1017.
Death of Charles B. Hosmer, 951 ; of ex-President
Ortiz of Argentina, 634 ; of ex-President Terra
of Uruguay, 773.
Emergency Advisory Committee for Political De-
fen.se, activities, 099.
Extraterritoriality in China, 834.
French labor, conscription by Germany, 770.
Mukden incident, 11th anniversary, 773.
North African situation, 1017.
Oil distribution to oilier American republics, C21.
Protest by French patriots to Marshal Petain, 751.
Turkish journalists' visit to Department, welcome,
878.
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Hull, Cordell— Continued.
Addresses, statements, etc. — Continued.
United Nations, support by French in North Africa,
1008.
United Nations offensive in Africa, appreciation of
messages of support and encouragement, 914.
Vichy government, U.S. policy, 903.
War (The) and human freedom, 639.
Correspondence —
Allen, Percy F., Assistant Director of Personnel
of the Department, retirement, 986.
Anniversaries,
Brazil, independence, 752.
China, invasion by Japan, 620; reply, 633.
Soviet Union, founding of, 894; reply, 969.
Armed forces, transfer of U.S. citizens from Ca-
nadian to U.S., 712.
Bolivian President-elect, visit to U.S., 662.
Brazilian declaration of war against Germany and
Italy, 711; reply, 723.
Commercial agreement, U.S. and Soviet Union, 663.
Death of Charles B. Hosmer, 952; of William Ray
Manning, 886; of Turkish Prime Minister
(Saydam), 63.3.
French North Africa, American military opera-
tions in, messages from Argentina, and reply,
913-914; from Dominican Republic, 914.
Jewish New Year celebration, 752.
Lend-lease aid, reciprocal, to U.S. and its armed
forces,
Australia, 737.
Great Britain, 736.
New Zealand, 739.
Luxembourgers, conscription into German Army,
attempt by Reich, 770.
Nomination of Turkish Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs (Menemencioglu), 714.
Post-war economic settlements, U.S. and Canada,
977.
Quigley, Stephen H., 40th anniversary in Depart-
ment, 858.
Vichy government, breaking of U.S. relations with,
message from Honduras and reply, 939.
Employees of U.S., detail to foreign governments,
625.
Hungarian nationals in U.S., alien enemies, 650.
Iceland : ~ . ,
American bases, inspection by American officials,
750.
American Minister (Morris), confirmation of nomi-
nation, 703.
American troops in, speech by Mr. Berle on anniver-
sary of their arrival, 618.
National holiday, correspondence of President Roose-
velt and Regent Bjornsson, 983.
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1097
Iceland — Continued.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Publications, excliange of, with U.S. (1942), signa-
ture, 774.
Stabilization of exchange, with U.S. (1942), signa-
ture, 623.
Illinois Manufacturers' Association : Address by Mr.
Grew, 993.
Immigration :
Visa Cases, Board of Appeals on, report, 982.
Imports. See tinder Commerce, international.
India:
American military forces in, orders to, 697.
Industrial resources, final report of American tech-
nical mission, 749.
Representative of President Roosevelt, appointment,
998.
Industry :
Associated Industries meeting, Boston, Mass., address
by Mr. Grew, 871.
Tunisia, adherence to convention and arrangements
providing for protection of industrial property,
930-931.
Inter-American relations. See American republics ;
and the individual countries.
International commissions, conferences, etc. See Com-
missions, committees, etc. ; Conferences, congresses,
etc.
International Law, Digest of: Publication of vol. IV,
957.
Iran :
Financial mission from U.S., 984.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Trade, with U.S., intention to negotiate, 665.
Iraq:
American Minister Resident and Consul General,
Acting (Wilson), confirmation of nomination,
703.
Message from Prime Minister (Nuri-es-Said) to Pres-
ident Roosevelt, 938 ; reply, 962.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Friendship, with China (1942), ratification by
China, 679 ; text, 680.
Italian-American Labor Council, address by Mr. Berle,
925.
Italy :
Americans of Italian descent, Columbus Day address
by Mr. Berle to, 836.
Position in war, address by Mr. Berle, 925.
War against, declaration by Brazil, 710; by Ethiopia,
10O9.
Japan (see also Far East) :
Americans in. Red Cross negotiations for relief, 741,
768.
Ethiopian declaration of war against, 1009.
512716 — 13 3
Ja pa n — Co n t i n ued .
Grew, .Joseph C, former American Ambassador to,
addresses, 719, 758, 763, 777, 797, 800, 845, 851,
865, 868, 871, 915, 919, W5, 993, 1018.
Mukden incident, 11th anniversary, 773.
Jewi.sh New Tear: Message of Secretary Hull, 752.
Jewish race, extermination, German policy, 1009.
Kanangoora (motorship) : Charter by Red Cross, 741,
768.
Kenestrick, Millard L., Chief Clerk and Administrative
Assistant of the Department : Designation, 692.
King Haakon VII (warship) : Transfer to Norwegian
Government under Lend-Lease Act, remarks of
President Roosevelt and Crown Princess Martha,
757.
Labor, French, conscription for use in Germany, 770.
Labor Conference, International : Conventions, 624, 724.
Latin America. See American republics ; and the in-
dividual countries.
Leahy, Admiral William D., American Ambassador to
France : Resignation, 651.
Lease-lend aid. See Lend-Lease aid.
Lebanon : American Diplomatic Agent and Consul Gen-
eral at Beirut, 828.
Legion of Merit, award, 895.
Legislation. See United States Congress.
Lehman, Herbert H., Director of Foreign Relief and
Rehabilitation Operations : Appointment, 948.
Lend-lease aid (see also Mutual-aid agreements) :
Agreements with Guatemala and other American
republics, 972.
Countries vital to U.S. defense, 779, 999.
Operations, 778, 914.
Reciprocal aid to U.S. —
Australia, 736.
France (Fighting), 739.
New Zealand, 738.
United Kingdom, 734.
Warships, transfer to Netherlands, 685 ; to Norway,
757.
Lescot, Elie, President of Haiti : Correspondence,
American military operations In French North
Africa, 912.
Liautaud, Andr6, Haitian Minister to U.S. : Credentials,
968.
Liberia :
Employees of U.S., detail to, 625.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Aerial transportation (1929), adherence, 1001.
Defense, with U.S. (1942), text, 979.
Loadline convention (1930), modifications proposed,
859.
Lockhart, Frank P., Chief, OflSce of Philippine Affairs
of the Department : Designation, 887.
1098
L6pez, Dr. Alfonso, President of Colombia :
Correspondence — •
American military operations in French North
Africa, 911.
Inauguration message from President Koosevelt,
689.
Visit to U.S. while President-elect, 595, 621, 661.
Luxembourgers : Conscription into German Army, mes-
sage from Secretary Hull to Luxembourg Minister
(Le Gallais), 770.
Madagascar: Occupation by British military forces, 750.
Manchuria : Mukden incident, 11th anniversary, 773.
Manning, William Ray : Death, 886.
Martha, Crown Princess of Norway : Acceptance of war-
ship in behalf of Norway, 757.
Mazzini Society, address by Mr. Berle before, 925.
McCarthy, Leighton, Canadian Minister at Wash-
ington :
Correspondence —
Military service of U.S. citizens residing in Canada,
789.
Post-war economic settlements, 977.
Transfer of U.S. citizens from Canadian to U.S.
armed forces, 712.
Medal for Merit, award, 1022.
Meltzer, Bernard D., Assistant Chief, Foreign Funds
Control Division of tlie Department : Designation,
677.
Menemencioglu, Numan, Turkish Minister of Foreign
Affairs: Nomination, congratulations of Mr. Hull
and reply, 714.
Merit, Legion of, award, 895.
Merit, Medal for, award, 1022.
Merriam, Gordon P., Assistant Chief, Division of Near
Eastern Affairs of the Department : Appointment,
677.
Merrill, Frederick T., Acting Assistant Chief, American
Hemisphere Exports Office of the Department:
Designation, 744.
Messersmith, George S., American Ambassador to
Mexico: Bailway-rehabilitation in Mexico, note,
956.
Meteorology courses in U.S. for students from American
republics, 1010.
Mexico (see also American republics) :
Aviation training schools, establishment by U.S., 660.
Cultural leaders, visits to U.S.. 929, 951, 985, 1010,
1011.
Farm-labor migration to U.S., 689.
Silver, exportation to U.S., 714.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Alcohol, with U.S. (1942), signature, 633.
Claims convention, with U.S. (1941), payment
under, 968.
Consular, with U.S. (1942), signature, 704.
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Mexico — Continued.
Treaties, agreements, etc. — Continued.
Migratory birds and game mammals, with U.S.
(1936), U.S. regulations, 678.
RaUways, rehabilitation of, with U.S. (1942), text,
954.
Rubber, with U.S. (1942), signature, 752.
Seamen, annual holidays (1936), ratification, 624.
Statistics, wages and hours in mining and manu-
facturing industries and In agriculture (1938),
ratification, 724.
Steel-plant con.struction, credit from U.S. (1942),
signature, 705.
Trade, with U.S. (1942), signature, 1029; analysis,
1031.
Migratory birds, conventions with Canada (1916) and
Mexico (1936), 678.
Military and naval cooperation, U.S. and Cuba, 750.
Military missions. See Missions, U.S.
Military operations, American, in French North Africa.
.See French North Africa.
Military service, American citizens residing in Canada,
789.
Miller, Edward G., Jr., Assistant Chief, Division of
Foreign Funds Control of the Department: Des-
ignation, 677.
Miller, Hunter, "Treaties and Other International
Acts" : Publication of vol. 7, 1026.
Missions, U.S. :
Economic, to French North Africa, 1008.
Health and Sanitation, to Bolivia, 662.
Military, to Bolivia, 704 ; to Panama, 624.
Technical, to Brazil, 740 ; to India, 749.
Models: Arrangement concerning the international de-
posit of industrial designs and models (1934),
adherence by Tunisia, 931.
Mohammed Ben Youssef, Sultan of Morocco: Corre-
spondence, American military operations in French
North Africa, 961.
Molotov, V. M., Vice President of Council of People's
Commissars and People's Commissar for Foreign
Affairs, U.S.S.R. : Correspondence, anniversary of
founding of Soviet Union, 969.
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury:
Statement regarding extension of stabilization
agreement with Brazil (1937), 623.
Morinigo, General Higinio, President of Paraguay:
Correspondence, American military operations in
French North Africa, 936.
Morocco : American military operations in French North
Africa, correspondence of President Roosevelt and
Sidi Mohammed, 961.
Morris, Leland B., American Minister to Iceland: Con-
firmation of nomination, 703.
Motion Pictures, Interdivisional Committee: Coopera-
tion of Central Translating Ofiice of the Depart-
ment, 792.
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1099
Mukden incident : Anniversary statement by Secretary
Hull, 773.
Mutual-aid agreements (1942), with U.S. (see also
Lend-lease aid) :
Czechoslovakia, 607.
Greece, 601.
Guatemala, 972.
Netherlands, 604.
Norway, 609-613.
Other American republics, 972.
Poland, 577.
Yugoslavia, 647.
Nash, Walter, New Zealand Minister to U.S. : Corre-
spondence, reciprocal lend-lease aid, 738.
Naval and military cooperation, U.S. and Cuba, 750.
Navigation: Leadline convention (1930), moditicatious
proposed, 859.
Near East (see also the hidividuiil countries) :
Greek resistance to Axis aggression, message from
President Roosevelt to Greek Ambassador (Dl-
amantopoulos), 870; address by Under Secretary
Welles, 876.
Iran, U.S. financial mission to, 984 ; trade-agreement
negotiation, 664.
Near Eastern Affairs, Division of the Department :
Assistant Chief, appointment of Gordon P. Merriam,
677.
Netherlands :
Lend-lease aid, warship received from U.S., 686.
Queen Wilhelmlna, visit to Washington, 685.
Ransom for persons in, German extortion, 962.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Mutual aid, with U.S. (1942), text, 604; notes,
606.
Netherlands Indies : East Indian Services, U.S. liaison
officer, 660.
New York Herald Tribune Forum : Address by Ameri-
can Amba.ssador to Soviet Union (Admiral Stand-
ley), 943; by Under Secretary Welles, 939.
New Zealaud :
Prime Minister Fraser, visit to Washington, 723.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Lend-lease aid, reciprocal, to U.S. (1942), signa-
ture, 734 ; text, 738.
Telecommunication service for U.S. expeditionary
forces, with U.S. (1942), signature, 981.
Wool, reduction in export price, 983.
Nicaragua (sec a/so: American republics) :
American military operations in French North Africa,
message from President Somoza to President
Roosevelt, 912; reply, 938.
Independence, anniversary message from President
Roosevelt, 773.
North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement
(1937) : Judicial decision, 897.
Norway :
King Haakon VII, birthday message from President
Roosevelt, 691.
Lend-lease aid, warship received from U.S., 757.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Mutual aid, with U.S. (1942), text, 610; notes,
612.
Nuri-es-Said, General, Prime Minister of Iraq:
Correspondence, American military operations in
French North Africa, 938.
Oil: Distribution from U.S. to other American repub-
lics, 620.
Opium convention of 1912, adherence by Belgian Congo
and Ruanda-Urundi, 705; by Egypt, 597.
Ortiz, Dr. Roberto M., ex-President of Argentina:
Death, 634.
Padilla, Ezequiel, Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs:
Correspondence, rehabilitation of railways In Mex-
ico, 954.
Pan America. See American republics.
Pan American Institute of Geography and History,
1030.
Pan American Sanitary Conference, 11th, at Rio de
Janeiro, 715, 724, 839.
Panama (see also American republics) :
American military operations in French North Africa,
message from President Guardia to President
Roosevelt, 913.
Independence, anniversary message from President
Roosevelt, 894.
Relations with U.S., message of President Roosevelt
to U.S. Congress 698.
Treaties, agieements, etc. —
Military mission, with U.S. (1942), signature, 624.
Rubber, with U. S. (1942), signature, 773.
Paraguay (see also American republics) :
American military oj^erations in French North Africa,
message from President Morinigo to President
Roosevelt and reply, 936.
Cultural leader, visit to U.S., 858.
Paris Peace Conference, 1919, publication of vols. I and
II in "Foreign Relations of the United States",
1024.
Passports, requirement for travel between U.S. and
West Indies by American nationals, 971.
Peace : Address by Mr. Acheson, 614.
Peilaranda del Castillo, General Enrique, President of
Bolivia : Correspondence, American military oper-
ations in French North Africa, 908.
Personnel Suijervision and Management, Division of
the Department : Abolishment, 743.
Peru (see also American republics) :
Cultural leaders, visits to U.S., 840, 894.
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Peru — Continued.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Commercial relations, with Venezuela (1942), text,
1012.
Historical .studies, with Venezuela (1942), signa-
ture, 101.3.
Student-training, with U.S. (1942), signature, 950.
Trade, with U.S. (1942), proclamations, 597.
Pgtain, Marshal Henri Philippe, Head of French State:
Correspondence, American military operations in
French North Africa, 905.
Peter II, King of Yugoslavia :
Conference with President Roosevelt, joint statement,
647.
Visit to U.S., message of appreciation to President
Roosevelt, 687 ; reply, 688.
Petroleum: Oil distribution from U.S. to other Ameri-
can republics, 620.
Philippine Affairs, Office of the Department: Chief,
designation of Frank P. Lockhart, 887.
Philippines :
Birthday of President Quezon, message from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, 714.
Employees of U.S., detail to, 625.
Phillips, William, Representative of President Roosevelt
near Government of India : Appointment, 998.
Poland :
Anniversary of attack by Germany, message from
President Roosevelt to President Raczkiewicz,
732 ; address by Mr. Berle, 733.
Treaties, agreements, etc.- —
Mutual aid, with U.S. (1942), text, 577.
Political Defense, Emergency Advisory Committee:
Activities, 999.
American military operations ip French North Africa,
message to President Roosevelt, and reply, 930.
Political Planning, Committee on. Department of State :
Establishment, and designation of James C. Dunn
as chairman and Selden Chapin as executive secre-
tary, 896.
Political Science, Academy of: Address by Mr. Grew,
915.
Portugal :
American military operations in French North Africa,
correspondence of President Roosevelt and Presi-
dent Carmona, 90.5.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Sugar regulation (1937), protocol of extension
(1942), signature, 841.
Post-war economic settlements, U.S. and Canada, 977.
Postal convention (1939) : Ratification by France, in-
cluding French colonies, 693 ; arrangements effec-
tive for French West Africa, 888.
President, U.S. See Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Prisoners of war :
Convention relating to treatment (1929), 622, 653.
Far East, relief, 741. 768.
Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals :
Revision II,
Supplement 4, 650.
Supplement 5, 688.
Revision III, 698,
Supplement 1, 742.
Supplement 2, 780.
Supplement 3, 885.
Supplement 4, 893.
Revision IV, 928,
Cumulative Supplement 1, 948.
Cumulative Supplement 2, 1022.
Proclamations :
Alien enemies in U.S., nationals of Bulgaria, Hungary,
and Rumania, 650.
Armistice Day, 895.
Commercial agreement with Soviet Union (1942),
693.
Migratory-bird conventions with Great Britain in
respect of Canada (1916) and with Mexico
(193G), amendatory regulations, 678.
Trade agreements with U.S.^
Argentina (1941), supplementary, 1001.
Peru, 597.
Uruguay (1942), 929; supplementary, 988.
Property. See under Industry.
Publications:
Digest of International Law (Hackworth), 957.
Exchange between U.S. and Iceland, agreement for,
774.
Foreign Relations of the United States : The Paris
Peace Conference (1919), 1024.
Lists —
Department of State, quarterly, 783, 1027.
Other U.S. Government agencies, 793, 987.
Territorial Papers of the United States (Carter), 986.
Treaties and Other International Acts (Miller), 1026.
Queen Wilhelmina (warship) : Transfer to Netherlands
under Lend-Lease Act, remarks of President
Roosevelt and Queen Wilhelmina, 686.
Quezon, Manuel Luis, President of the Philippines:
Birthday message from President Roosevelt, 714.
Quigley, Stephen H., Administrative Assistant, Division
of Protocol of the Department: Commendation by
Secretary HuU on 40th anniversary with Depart-
ment, 858.
Radiophoto service, U.S. and China, opening, 1009.
Railways: Mexican national, rehabilitation, 954.
Ransom, German attempts at extortion in occupied
countries, 962.
Reber, Samuel, Assistant Chief. Division of European
Affairs of the Department : Designation, 596.
Reciprocity Information, Committee for :
Special Assistant and Executive Secretary, designa-
tion of Edward Tardley, 725.
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Reciprocity Information, Committee for — Continued.
Trade-agreemeut negotiations, U.S. and Iran, public
notice, 665.
Red Cross:
Convention (192E)), adherence by El Salvador, 622.
Relief shipments of food to Greece, arrangements,
686.
Relief to Americans in Japan, negotiations, 741, 768.
Regulations, U.S. :
Alien enemies, 650.
American nationals, entry into and departure from
U.S., 971.
Government agencies, 626, 793, 899.
Migratory birds, 678.
War relief, 659.
Rehabilitation. See Relief.
Reinstein, Jacques J., Assistant Chief, Division of For-
eign Funds Control of the Department: Appoint-
ment, 744.
Relief :
Americans in Japan, 741, 768.
Belligerent countries, U.S. contributions to, 677, 896;
revision of certain regulations, 659.
China, address by Mr. Grew, 797.
Coordination of activities in U.S., 657.
Domestic war relief and welfare, organizations reg-
istered for, 896.
Foreign relief and rehabilitation operations, appoint-
ment of Herbert H. Lehman as director, 948.
Great Britain, from U.S., 629.
Greece, food shipments to, 686.
War Relief Control Board, issuance of tabulation of
contributions, 791.
Repatriation. See Americans.
Republican Club, National, address by Mr. Grew, 868.
Richmond War and Community Fund meeting, address
by Mr. Grew, 851.
Riefler, Winfield, Special Assistant to the American
Amba.ssador in London : Appointment, 770.
Rio Tercero (steamer) : Sinking, 579.
Rios, Juan Antonio, President of Chile :
Correspondence with President Roosevelt —
American military operations in French North
Africa, 909.
Visit (proposed) to U.S., 701, 838.
Roosevelt, Franljlin D. :
Addresses, statements, etc. —
Christmas message to armed forces of U.S. allies,
1017.
Conference with King George II of Greece, joint
statement, 601 ; with King Peter II of Yugo-
slavia, joint statement, 647.
Diplomatic representatives, presentation of cre-
dentials, remarks in reply to, 824, 826, 827, 969.
French North Africa,
Radio address to French people on lauding of
U.S. armed forces in, 891.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. — Continued.
Addresses, statements, etc. — Continued.
French North Africa— Continued.
Political arrangement in, 935.
Support of United Nations by French people,
1007.
French West Africa, political arrangement with
Admiral Darlan, 935.
Lend-lease aid.
Shipments to Egypt, 914.
Transfer of warship to Netherlands, 686, to Nor-
way, 757.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, toast to, 685.
Student Assembly, International, 729.
Vichy government, U.S. policy, 903.
War crimes against civilians in occupied countries,
709, 797.
Correspondence — ■
Anniversaries,
Atlantic Charter, signature, G97.
Birthday of Haakon VII of Norway, G91 ; of
President Quezon of Philippines, 714.
Founding of Turkish Republic, 878 ; of Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics, 894.
Independence of Brazil, 751; of Chile, 771; of
Costa Rica, 771; of El Salvador, 772; of
Guatemala, 772; of Nicaragua, 773; of Pan-
ama, 894 ; of Uruguay, 723.
Invasion of China by Japan, 619; of Greece by
Italy, 876 ; of Poland by Germany, 732.
National, of China, 808 ; of Czechoslovakia, 875 ;
of Ecuador, 702 ; of Iceland, 988.
Brazilian vessels, sinking of, 710.
Colombia, inauguration of. President Lopez, 689.
Declaration by United Nations, adherence by Ethi-
opia, 805.
Declarations of war,
Brazil, against Germany and Italy, 710.
Ethiopia, against Axis powers, 1009.
Extraterritoriality in China, relinquishment by
U.S., 839.
French North Africa, American military operations
in,
Congratulatory messages from otlier American
republics, 908, 936 ; from Iraq, 938, 962.
Cooperation of Morocco, 961.
Messages to officials of Algeria, 807; of France
(and reply), 804-905; of Portugal (and re-
ply), 905-906; of Spain (and reply), 90&-
907 ; and of Tunisia, 907-908.
Gift of King Farouk to American forces in Egypt,
1000.
Lend-lease aid to Etliiopia, 999.
Radiophoto service with China, opening of, 1010.
Relief contributions to Great Britain, 629.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. — Continued.
Correspondence — Continued.
Resignation of American Ambassador to France
(Leahy), acceptance, 651.
Visits to U. S.,
President Rios of Cliile, 701, 838.
King Peter of Yugoslavia, 638.
Messages to Congress —
Free movement of persons, property, and informa-
tion into and out of U.S., 802.
Panama, U.S. relations with, 698.
Report to Congress on lend-lease operations (Septem-
ber 11, 1W2), 778.
Roosevelt, Sara Delano: Memorial address by Under
Secretary Welles, 901.
Ross, John C, Executive Officer of the Department of
State and Chief of Division of Departmental Per-
sonnel : Designation, 743.
Ruanda-Urundi : Adherence to international opium
convention of 1912, 70S.
Rubber agreements. See Treaties, agreements, etc.
Rumanian nationals in U.S., alien enemies, 650.
Russell, Francis H., Acting Chief, AVorld Trade Intel-
ligence Division of the Department: Designation,
1024.
Saboteurs, German : Opinion of U.S. Supreme Court
in cases of, 947.
Salazar, Dr. Carles, Guatemalan Minister of Foreign
Affairs : Visit to U. S., 949, 984.
Salvador. See El Salvador.
Samoza, General Anastasio, President of Nicaragua :
Correspondence, American military operations in
French North Africa, 912.
Sanitary Conference, Pan American, 11th, at Rio de
Janeiro, 715, 724, 830.
Sanitation agreement, U.S. and Bolivia (1042), signa-
ture, 703.
Seamen, convention concerning annual holidays (1936),
ratiflcation by Mexico, 624.
Secretary of State. See Hull, Cordell.
Senate. See under United States Congress.
Shipping:
French warships at Alexandria, Egypt, proposals by
U.S., 631.
Lend-lease equipment to Egypt, 914.
Oil, distribution from U.S. to otlier American repub-
lics, 62tt.
Relief supplies to Americans in Japan, 741, 768 ; to
Greece, 686.
Sinking of —
Argentine steamer (Rio Tercero), U.S. assistance
to crew, 579.
Brazilian vessels by Axis submarines, 710.
Silver : Exportation from Mexico to U.S., 714.
Social Planning, Inter-American Congress, at Santiago,
Chile, 743, 970.
Social Security :
Inter-American Committee on, 970.
Inter-American Conference on, 970.
Social Studies, National Council for: Address by Mr.
Hanson, 964.
South America. See American republics and the indi-
vidual countries.
Soviet Union. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Spain :
American military operations in Frencli North Africa,
correspondence of President Roosevelt and Gen-
eral Franco, 906.
Officials delivered to Spani.sh Government by Ger-
many, false reports, 963.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Commercial, with Argentina (1942), 897.
Cultural, with Argentina (1942), 930.
Stabilization of exchange. See Finance; Treaties,
agreements, etc.
Standley, Admiral William H., American Ambassador
to the Soviet Union : Address before New York
Herald Tribune Forum, 943.
State, Department of:
American Hemisphere Exports Office, Acting Assist-
ant Chiefs —
Dame, Lester S., designation, 774.
Merrill, Frederick T., designation. 744.
American Republics, Division of the. Assistant
Chiefs—
Dreier, John C, designation, 625.
Woodward, Robert F., designation, 596.
Appropriations for 1943, analysis, 670.
Caribbean Office —
Assistant Chief, designation of Warden McK. Wil-
son, 752.
Duties as executive agency for U.S. Section, Anglo-
American Caribbean Commission. 1011.
Central Translating Office, additional duties, 791.
Chief Clerk and Administrative Assistant — ■
Desigimtion of Millard L. Kenestrick as, 692.
Oflice of, creation, 691.
Claim Board, establishment, 715.
Commercial Policy and Agreements, Division of —
Assistant Chief, designation of Honore Marcel Ca-
tudal, 774.
Special Consultant, designation of John S. Dickey,
1023.
Committees, advisory, 780.
Departmental orders, nos. —
11K57, Division of Euroijean Affairs, 596.
1068, Division of the American Republics, 596.
1070, Division of the American Republics, 625.
1073, Division of Near Eastern Affairs, 677.
1074, Foreign Funds Control Division, 677.
1078, Chief Clerk and Administrative Assistant,
691.
1079, Division of Foreign Activity Correlation, 692.
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1103
State, Department of — Continued.
Departmental orders, nos. — Continued.
1052, Claim Board, 715.
1053, Caribbean Office, 7.52.
1084, Committee for Reciprocity Information, 725.
10S6, Division of Departmental Personnel, 743.
1087, Foreign Funds Control Division, 744.
1088, Foreign Funds Control Division, 744.
1089, American Hemisphere Exports Office, 744.
1090, American Hemisphere Exports Office, 774.
1091, Division of Commercial Policy and Agree-
ments, 774.
1095, Special Assistant to Secretary of State
(Grew), 780.
1096, Central Translating Office, 791.
1103, Office of Philippine Affairs, 887.
1105, Committee on Political Planning, 896.
1110. Office of Foreign Territories, 971.
1117, Caribbean Office, 1011.
1120, Division of Commercial Policy and Agree-
ments, 1023.
European Affairs, Division of —
Assistant Chief, designation of Samuel Beber, 596.
Responsibility for non-military matters in coun-
tries occupied by forces of United Nations, 971.
Foreign Activity Correlation, Division of, designa-
tion of Lloyd D. Yates as Acting Assistant Chief,
692.
Foreign Funds Control Division, Assistant Chiefs —
Meltzer, Bernard D., designation, 677.
Miller, Edward G., Jr., designation, 677.
Reinstein, Jacques, J., appointment, 744.
Tannenwald, Theodore, Jr. (Acting), designation,
744.
Foreign Belief and Rehabilitation Operations, Office
of, appointment of Herbert H. Lehman as Direc-
tor, 948.
Foreign Territories, Office of, establishment, 971 ;
functions, 985.
Liaison officer of Department with Office of Fishery
Coordination of Interior Department, designa-
tion of Leo D. Sturgeon (alternate, Charles I.
Bevans), 715.
Personnel, Departmental, Division of, creation, 743.
Personnel Supervision and Management, Division of,
abolishment, 743.
Philippine Affairs, Office of, designation of Frank P.
Lockhart as Chief, 887.
Political Planning, Committee on, establishment, 896 ;
designation of James C. Dunn as Chairman and
Selden Chapin as Executive Secretary, 896.
Protocol, Division of, commendation by Secretary
Hull of Stephen H. Quigley, Administrative
Assistant, on 40th anniversary in Department,
85&
Regulations, entry into and departure from U.S. by
American nationals, 971.
State, Department of — Continued.
Representatives of Department on —
Fisheries Committee of War Production Board,
designation of Leo D. Sturgeon, 715.
Interdepartmental Sugar Policy Committee, desig-
nation of Robert M. Carr, 625.
Alternate, Edward G. Cale, 625.
Role in wartime, 855.
Special Assistant to the Secretary, appointment of
Joseph C. Grew, 780.
Trade-agreement negotiations wilh Iran, public
notice, 665.
Visa Cases, Board of Api^eals on, report, 982.
World Trade Intelligence Division, designation of
Francis H. Russell as Acting Chief, 1024.
Statements. See under names of the individuals and the
specific subjects.
Statistics:
Causes of death, international agreement (1934),
cancelation by Egypt of application to Burdein,
693.
Wages and hours in mining and manufacturing in-
dustries and in agriculture, convention (1938),
ratification by Mexico, 724.
Steel plant at Monclova, Mexico, construction, 705.
Strategic materials. See War.
Students :
American republics, meteorology courses in U.S.,
1010.
Assembly, international, address by President Roose-
velt, 729.
Peruvian, training in U.S., 950.
Sturgeon, Leo D., Assistant to Assistant Secretary of
State Long: Representative of Department on Fish-
eries Committee and liaison officer with Office of
Fishery Coordination, designation, 715.
Sugar agreement, international (1937), protocol of ex-
tension (1942), 678, 841.
Sugar Council, International, 678.
Sugar Policy Committee, Interdepartmental, 625.
Supreme Court. See United States Supreme Court.
Sweden: Motorship (Kanangoora), charter by Ameri-
can Red Cross, 741, 768.
Syria : American Diplomatic Agent and Consul General
at Damascus, 828.
Tannenwald, Theodore, Jr., Acting Assistant Chief,
Foreign Funds Control Division of the Department :
Designation, 744.
Telecommunications :
International convention (1932), adherence by
Croatia, 652.
North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement
(1937), judicial decision, 897.
Service for U.S. expeditionary forces in New Zealand,
981.
1104
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Telecommunications — Continued.
Union, International, resignation of Haiti as mem-
ber of the Bureau, 653.
Terra, Dr. Gabriel, ex-President of Uruguay : Death,
773.
Territorial Papers of the United States : Publication of
vol. X, 986.
Thurston, Walter, American Minister to El Salvador :
Confirmation of nomination, 929.
Trade. See Commerce, international ; Foreign trade,
U.S. ; Treaties, agreements, etc.
Trade-marks : Arrangement concerning international
registration of trade-marks and commercial names
(1934), adherence by Tunisia, 930.
Travel regulations, 971.
Treaties, agreements, etc. :
Agricultural experiment station, U.S. and—
Ecuador (1942), signature, 1013.
El Salvador (1942), signature, 1013.
Alcohol, U.S. and Mexico (1942), signature, 633.
Alliance and mutual assistance. United Kingdom and
Soviet Union (1942), exchange of ratifications,
781 ; text, 781.
Amity, China and Cuba (1942), signature, 972.
Aviation, aerial transportation (1929), adherence by
Liberia, 1001.
Babassu and castor oil, U.S. and Brazil (1942),
signature, 725.
Claims convention, U.S. and Mexico (1941), payment
under, 968.
Coffee, cocoa, and Brazil nuts, U.S. and Brazil (1942),
signature, 860.
Commercial, Argentina and Spain (1942), signature,
897.
Commercial, U. S. and —
Dominican Republic (1924), reduction in customs
duties, text, 953.
Soviet Union (1942), text, 663; proclamation by
U.S. President, 693.
Commercial relations, Peru and Venezuela (1942),
text, 1012.
Consular, U.S. and Mexico (1942), signature, 704.
Cultural, Argentina and Spain (1942), signature, 930.
Cultural interchange, Brazil and Venezuela (1942),
signature, 1012.
Declaration by United Nations (1942), adherence
by Ethiopia, 805.
Defense, U.S. and Liberia (1942), text, 979.
Economic settlements, post-war, U.S. and Canada
(1942), text, 977.
Exchange stabilization, U.S. and —
Brazil (1937), extension, 622.
China (1941), extension, 623.
Cuba (1942), signature, 623.
Ecuador (1942), signature, 623.
Iceland (1942), signature, 623.
Treaties, agreements, etc.- — Continued.
Extraterritoriality in China, relinquishment by
U.S.—
Negotiations, 805-808.
Comments of President Roosevelt and General
Chiang Kai-shek, 839.
Draft submitted to Chinese Ambassador, 854.
Farm-labor migration, U.S. and Mexico (1942), 689.
Fats and oils for United Nations, U.S. and United
Kingdom (1942), signature, 791.
Finance, U.S. and Haiti, supplementary (1942),
signature, 1002.
Friendship, China and Iraq (1942), ratification by
China, 679 ; text, 6S0.
Highway construction, U.S. and Mexico (1942), sig-
nature, 704.
Historical studies, Peru and Venezuela (1942), sig-
nature, 1013.
Industrial property — ■
Designs and models, international deposit of,
(1934), adherence by Timisia, 931.
Origin of goods, false indications of (1934), ad-
herence by Tunisia, 930.
Protection of (1934), adherence by Tunisia, 930.
Trade-marks and commercial names, interna-
tional registration of (1934), adherence by
Tunisia, 930.
Lend-lease aid. reciprocal, to U.S. and its armed
forces (1942) —
Australia, text, 736.
France (Fighting), text, 739.
Great Britain, text, 734.
New Zealand, text, 738.
Loadline, international (1980), modifications pro-
posed, 859.
Migratory birds, U.S. and Canada (1916) and U.S.
and Mexico (1936), amendatory regulations, 678.
Military and naval cooperation, U.S. and Cuba (1942),
signature, 7.50.
Military equipment to Soviet Union, Great Britain,
U.S., and Soviet Union (1942), signature, 805.
Military missions, U.S. to —
Bolivia (1942), signature, 704.
Panama (1942), signature, 624.
Military service of American citizens residing in
Canada, Canada and U.S. (1942), text, 789.
Mutual aid (1942), U.S. and—
Czechoslovakia, text, G07.
Greece, text, 602.
Guatemala, signature, 972.
Netherlands, text, 604.
Norway, text, 610.
Poland, text, 577.
Yugoslavia, text, 648.
Opium (1912), adherence —
Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 705.
Egypt, 597.
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1105
Treaties, agreements, etc. — Continued.
Pan American Institute of Geography and History,
resolution on establishment (1828), ratification
by Venezuela, 1030.
Postal, universal (1939), ratification by France, In-
cluding French colonies, 693; arrangements ef-
fective for French West Africa, 888.
Prisoners of vpar (1929), adherence by Costa Rica,
653 ; by El Salvador, 622.
Publications, official exchange, U.S. and Iceland
(1942), signature, 774.
Railway-rehabilitation, U.S. and Mexico (1942), text,
954.
Red Cross (1929), adherence by El Salvador, 622.
Rubber (1942), signature, U.S. and—
Bolivia, 633.
British Guiana, 698.
British Honduras, 713.
Colombia, 595.
Ecuador, 650.
El Salvador, 723.
Guatemala, 752.
Honduras, 690.
Mexico, 752.
Panama, 773.
Trinidad, 698.
Venezuela, 838.
Sanitation, U.S. and Bolivia (1942), signature, 703.
Seamen, annual holidays (1936), ratification by Mex-
ico, 624.
Statistics of causes of death (1934), cancelation by
Egypt of application of agreement to Burdein,
693.
Statistics, wages and hours in mining and manufac-
turing industries and in agriculture (1938) , rati-
fication by Mexico, 724.
Steel-plant construction, U.S. and Mexico (1942),
signature, 705.
Student-training, U.S. and Peru (1942), signature,
950.
Sugar regulation (1937), protocol extending dura-
tion (1942), signature, 678, 841; text, 679.
Telecommunications —
Convention (1932), adherence by Croatia, 652.
Service for U.S. expeditionary forces, U.S. and
New Zealand (1942), signature, 981.
Trade, Argentina and Venezuela (1942), signature,
1012.
Trade, U.S. and—
Argentina (1041), supplementary proclamation,
1001.
Iran, intention to negotiate, 6(55 ; products on which
U.S. will consider granting concessions, 665.
Mexico (1942), signature, 1029; analysis, 1031.
Peru (1942), proclamations, 597.
Uruguay (1942), signature, 653; analysis, 654c;
proclamations by U.S. President, 929, 988.
Treaties, agreements, etc. — Continued.
Wlieat, memorandum of agreement (1942), approval
by Argentina, Australia, Canada, United King-
dom, and U.S., 5S2; text (including draft con-
vention), 583.
Wool, U.S. and Uruguay (1942), signature, 972.
Treaties and Other International Acts: Publication of
vol. 7, 1026.
Trinidad: Rubber agreement with U.S. (1942), signa-
ture, 698.
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. : Commencement ad-
dress by Mr. Grew, 1018.
Trujlllo, General Rafael L., President of Dominican
Republic: Correspondence, American military op-
erations in French North Africa, 912, 914.
Tunisia :
American military operations in French North Africa,
message from President Roosevelt to Sidi Moncef
Pacha, Bey of Tunis, 908; to Admiral Esteva,
Resident General, 908.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Industrial property.
Designs and models, international deposit of
(1934), adherence, 931.
Origin of goods, false indications of (1934), ad-
herence, 930.
Protection of (1934), adherence, 980.
Trade-marks and commercial names, interna-
tional registration of (1934), adherence, 930.
Turkey :
Anniversary of founding of Turkish Republic, mes-
sage from President Roosevelt to President
Inonu, 878.
Minister of Foreign Affairs ( Menemeneioglu ) , nomi-
nation, 714.
Prime Minister (Saydam), death, 633.
Visit of Turkish journalists to Secretary Hull, 878.
Ubico, General Jorge, President of Guatemala : Corre-
spondence, American military operations in French
North Africa, 912.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:
American Ambassador (Admiral Standley), address
by, 943.
Founding of, anniversary messages from President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, 893 ; reply ot Peo-
ple's Commissar for Foreign Affairs to Secretary
Hull, 969.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Alliance and mutual assistance, with United King-
dom (1942), exchange of ratifications, 781;
text, 781.
Commercial, with U.S. (1942), signature, 662;
notes, 663; proclamation, U.S., 693.
Military equipment, with U.S. and Great Britain
(1942), signature of protocol, 805.
United Kingdom. See Great Britain.
1106
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
United Nations (see also War; and the individual
coiintries) :
Declaration by, adherence by Ethiopia, 805.
United States:
Congress —
Legislation,
Alaska Highway (hearings), 681.
Aliens (H. repts.), 958, 973.
Appropriations: Board of Economic Warfare
(H. doc), 793: deficiency (pnb. law), 626;
Executive Office, independent bureaus, etc.
(pub. law), 597: national defense (hearings;
H. rept. ; pub. law), 598, 6S1, 828; State,
Justice, Commerce, Federal Judiciary (pub.
law), 626.
Censorship (H. rept. ; S. rept.), 716, 973.
Claims: Hannevig, of Norway (H. rept.), 987;
Mexican Claims Act, 1942 (hearings; S.
rept. ) , 694, 785.
Decorations, medals, etc. ( H. doc. ; S. rept. ; H.
rept.), 626, 958, 1003.
Domestic stability, national defense, and prose-
cution of the war: legislative and executive
bacljground, 1933-42 (S. doc), 958.
Expenditures, non-war Federal (H. doc), 861.
Fisheries (S. rept.), 694.
General Pulaski Memorial Day (pub. law), 793.
Immigration Act of 1917, amendment ( S. rept. ) ,
888.
Importation (pub. law), 597.
Inter-American Financial and Economic Advi-
sory Committee (H. doc), 988.
Jefferson, Thomas : Anniversary of birth (pub.
law), 694; election to presidency (H. rept.),
705.
Lend-Lease operations (H. doc), 774.
Military personnel, detail to foreign countries
(S. rept.; H. rept.; pub. law), 705, 753, 828.
National defense: Migration (hearings), 745;
program (hearings), 753.
Nationality Act of 1940, amendments (S. repts.;
H. repts.; pub. law), 654, 785, 841, 861, 888,
958, 1002.
Opium poppy, treaty obligations (H. rept.), 841.
Political Defense, Emergency Advisory Commit-
tee for (H. doc), 988.
Panama, treaties with U.S. of 1903 and 1936 (H.
rept. ; S. repts. ) , 793, 973, 1003.
Prizes captured by U.S. (pub. law), 716.
Red Cross emblem (hearings; H. rept.), 598,
654.
Refugee and war-relief programs (H. doc), 716.
Repatriation (H. rept.), 793.
Revenue Act, 1942 (hearings), 774.
Salaries : American Ambassadors and Ministers
(H. doc), 774; State Department (S. doc),
597.
United States — Continued.
Congress — Continued.
Legislation — Continued.
State Department, supplemental estimate (S.
doc), 626.
Tariff and immigration laws (hearings), 988.
Messages from President.
Free movement of persons, property, and Infor-
mation into and out of U.S., 892.
Panama, relations with, 698.
Report of President on lend-lease operations, 778.
Senate confirmation of Foreign Service nomina-
tions, 703, 792, 828, 929.
Foreign Service (see also State, Department of) —
Appointments, 596, 625, 635, 652, 678, 770, 951.
Assignments, 596, 625, 635, 652, 677.
Claim Board, establishment, 71.5.
Consular convention with Mexico (1942), 704.
Consular representation, U.S. and Finland, can-
celation, 632.
Death, 951.
Economic affairs, counselors of embassy for, 951.
Exchange with France of diplomatic and consular
personnel, 939.
Expansion by reason of economic aspects of foreign
relations, address by Mr. Geist, 813.
Great Britain,
Fats and oils for United Nations (1942), 791.
Migratory birds, in respect of Canada, (1916),
678.
Reciprocal lend-lease aid (1942), 734.
Instruction on phases of economic warfare, 887.
Nominations, confirmation, of Anthony J. Drexel
Biddle, Jr., 792; of Thomas L. Hughes, 792;
of Leland B. Morris, 703 ; of W. Garland Rich-
ardson, 792; of Walter Thurston, 929; of
George Wadsworth, 828 ; of Thomas M. Wilson,
703.
Resignations, 651.
Wartime changes in, 855.
Supreme Court, opinion in German saboteur cases,
947.
Treaties, agreements, etc. (q.v.) —
Argentina, trade (1941), 1001.
Australia, reciprocal lend-lease aid (1942), 736.
Bolivia,
Military mission from U.S. (1942), 704
Rubber (1942), 633.
Sanitation (1942), 703.
Brazil,
Babassu and castor oil (1942), 725.
Coffee, cocoa, and Brazil nuts (1942), 860.
Stabilization of exchange (1937), 622.
British Guiana, rubber (1942), 698.
British Honduras, rubber (1942), 713.
Canada,
Economic settlements, post-war (1942), 977.
INDEX
1107
United States — Continued.
Treaties, agreements, etc. — Continued.
Canada — Continued.
Military service of American citizens residing in
Canada (1942), 789.
China,
Extraterritoriality in, relinquishment by U.S.,
negotiations, 805-S08 ; comments of President
Roosevelt and General Chiang Kai-shelj, 839;
draft submitted to Chinese Ambassador, 854.
Stabilization of exchange (1941), 623.
Colombia, rubber (1942), 595.
Cuba,
Military and naval cooperation (1942), 750.
Stabilization of exchange (1942), 623.
Czechoslovakia, mutual aid (1942), 607.
Dominican Republic, commerce (1924), 952.
Ecuador,
Agricultural experiment station (1942), 1013.
Rubber (1942), 650.
Stabilization of exchange (1942), 623.
El Salvador,
Agricultural experiment station (1942), 1013.
Rubber (1942), 723.
France (Fighting), reciprocal lend-lease aid (1942),
739.
Greece, mutual aid (1942), 601.
Guatemala,
Mutual aid (1942), 972.
Rubber (1942), 752.
Haiti, finance, supplementary (1942), 1002.
Honduras, rubber (1942), 690.
Iceland,
Publications, exchange of (1942), 774.
Stabilization of exchange (1942), 623.
Liberia, defense (1942), 979.
Mexico,
Alcohol (1942), 633.
Claims (1941), payment under, 968.
Consular (1942), 704.
Farm-labor migration to U. S. (1942), 689.
Highways, construction (1942), 704.
Railways, rehabilitation (1942), 954.
Rubber (1942), 752.
Steel-plant construction (1942), 705.
Trade (1942), 1029, 1031.
Multilateral,
Leadline (1930), 859.
Military equipment to Soviet Union (1942), 805.
Sugar regulation (1937), protocol extending
(1942), 678, 841.
Wheat, memorandum of agreement (1942), 582.
Netherlands, mutual aid (1942), 604.
New Zealand,
Lend-lease aid, reciprocal (1942), 738.
Telecommunication service for U.S. expedition-
ary forces (1942), 981.
United States — Continued.
Treaties, agreements, etc. — Continued.
Norway, mutual aid (1942), 609.
Panama,
Military mission (1942), 624.
Rubber (1942), 773.
Peru,
Student-training in U.S. (1942), 950.
Trade (1942), 597.
Poland, mutual aid (1942), 577.
Trinidad, rubber (1942), 698.
U.S.S.R., commerce (1942), 662, 693.
Uruguay,
Trade (1942), 653, 654c, 929, 988.
Wool (1942), 972.
Venezuela, rubber (1942), 838.
Yugoslavia, mutual aid (1942), 647.
Uruguay (see also American republics) :
American military operations in French North Africa,
message from President Baldomir to President
Roosevelt, 913.
Ex-President Terra, death, 773.
Independence, anniversary, message from President
Roosevelt to President Baldomir, 723.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Trade, with U.S. (1912), signature, 653; analysis,
654c ; proclamations by U.S. President, 629, 988.
Wool, with U.S. (1942), signature, 972.
Vargas, Getulio, President of Brazil: Correspondence,
sinking of Brazilian vessels by Axis, 710.
Venezuela (see also American republics) :
Cultural leaders, visits to U.S., 651, 984.
Gil Borges, Esteban, death, 690.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Commercial, with Peru (1942), text, 1012.
Cultural interchange, with Brazil (1942), signa-
ture, 1012.
Historical studies, with Peru (1942), signature,
1013.
Pan American Institute of Geography and History,
resolution on establishment (1928), ratitlca-
tion, 1030.
Rubber, with U.S. (1942), signature, 838.
Trade, with Argentina (1942), signature, 1012.
Vessels: Sinking of Argentine steamer (Rio Tercero),
579 ; of Brazilian vessels, 710.
Vichy. See France.
Victory Loan campaign in Canada : Address by Mr.
Grew, 800.
Virginia, University of : Address by Mr. Acheson before
Institute of Public Affairs, 614.
Visa Cases, Board of Appeals on, report, 982.
Wadsworth, George, Diplomatic Agent and Consul Gen-
eral at Beirut and Damascus : Confirmation of
nomination, 828.
1108
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War (The) {see also Addresses; Economics; Lend-
lease aid ; Mutual-aid agreements ; Belief) :
Albania, resistance to Italian occupation, 998.
Alliance, United Kingdom and Soviet Union, treaty,
781.
Armed forces, U.S. —
Military service of U.S. citizens residing in Canada,
789.
Orders to forces in India, 697.
Telecommunication service, New Zealand, 981.
Transfer from Canadian armed forces to, 711.
Atlantic Charter, 1st anniversary, 697.
Austria, status, 660.
China, resistance to Japanese aggression, 619, 633.
Christmas message of President Roosevelt to armed
forces of U.S. allies, 1017.
Conduct of, discussion by British and American
ofBcials in London, 750.
Cuba, military and naval cooperation with U.S., 750.
Declaration by United Nations, adherence by Ethio-
pia, 805.
Declaration of war by Brazil against Germany and
Italy, 710, 723 ; by Ethiopia against Axis powers,
1009.
Enemy aliens in U.S., general license for transporta-
tion, 634.
Exchange with Axis powers of diplomatic, consular,
and other personnel by U.S. and other American
republics, 579, 632, 713, 939.
Finland, consular representation between U.S. and,
cancelation, 632.
France —
Bombings in, reply of American Charg6 to protest
against, 750.
Labor-conscription for use in Germany, 770.
Patriots' protest to Marshal P^tain, statement of
Secretary Hull, 751.
Warships, French, at Alexandria, Egypt, U.S. pro-
posals, 631.
Free French National Committee, U.S. cooperation
with, 613, 739.
French North Africa (q.v.) —
American military operations.
Congratulatory messages to President Roosevelt
from other American republics, and replies,
908, 936 ; from Iraq, 938 ; reply, 962.
Messages of President Roosevelt to officials of
France, Portugal, Spain, Algeria, and
Tunisia, and replies, 904; to Sultan of
Morocco, and reply, 961.
Radio message of President Roosevelt to French
people, 891.
White House statement, 891.
Greece, resistance to Axis aggression, 876.
Iceland, American troops in, address by Mr. Eerie on
anniversary of arrival, 618.
Legion of Merit, award, 895.
War (The)— Continued.
Liberian defense areas, U.S. jurisdiction over, 979.
Luxembourgers, conscription into Germany Army,
770.
Madagascar, occupation by British military forces,
750.
Medal for Merit, award, 1022.
Military equipment to Soviet Union, delivery by U.S.
and Great Britain, 805.
Mukden incident, 11th anniversary, 773.
Occupied countries, civilian populations — •
Crimes against, 709, 797.
Ransom payments, attempted extortion by Ger-
many, 962.
Poland, anniversary of attack by Germany, 732, 733.
Prisoners of war in Far East, relief, 741, 768.
Saboteur cases, German, opinion of U.S. Supreme
Court, 947.
State Department, role in wartime, 855.
Strategic materials —
Alcohol, purchase from Mexico, 633.
Babassu and castor oil, purchase from Brazil, 725.
Coffee, cocoa, Brazil nuts, purchase from Brazil,
860.
Fats and oils, purchase for United Nations, 791.
Oil, distribution to other American republics, 620.
Rubber, purchase from Bolivia, 633; British Gui-
ana, 698; British Honduras, 713; Colombia,
595; Ecuador, 650; El Salvador, 723; Guate-
mala, 752; Honduras, 690; Mexico, 752; Pan-
ama, 773 ; Trinidad, 698 ; Venezuela, 838.
Wool, purchase from Uruguay, 972.
Steel, plant-construction in Mexico, 705.
Vessels, sinking of —
Argentine steamer (Rio Tercero), 579.
Brazilian vessels, 710.
Warren, Avra M., American Minister at Ciudad Tru-
jillo ; Correspondence, commercial agreement with
Dominican Republic, 953.
Wei Tao-ming, Chinese Ambassador to U.S. : Creden-
tials, 824.
Welles, Sumner:
Addresses, statements, etc. —
Death of Salvadoran Minister of Foreign Affairs
(Araujo), 690; of Dr. Gil Borges of Venezuela,
690.
Foreign Trade Council, National, 29th convention,
808.
French warships at Alexandria, Egypt, proposals,
631.
Greek resistance to Axis aggression, 876.
Inter-American Conference on Systems of Eco-
nomic and Financial Control, 580.
New York Herald Tribune Forum, 939.
Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial, dedication, 991.
INDEX
1109
West Indies, travel to and from, by American na-
tionals, 971.
Wheat Council, luteruatioual :
Establishment, 670.
First meeting, at Washington, 688.
U. S. delegation, 670.
Wheat Meeting, Washington, 582 ; memorandum of
agreement and draft convention regarding inter-
national trade, 583 ; minutes of final session, 594.
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands : Visit to Wash-
ington, 685.
Wilson, Thomas M., Acting American Minister Resident
and Consul General in Iraq : Confiimation of nom-
ination, 70S.
Wilson, Warden McK., Assistant Chief, Caribbean
Office of the Department : Designation, 752.
Woodward, Robert P., Assistant Chief, Division of the
American Republics of the Department: Desig-
nation, 596.
Wool:
Australian and New Zealand, reduction in export
price, 983.
Uruguayan, agreement by U. S. to purchase, 972.
Tardley, Edward, Special Assistant and Executive Sec-
retary to the Committee for Reciprocity Informa-
tion : Designation, 725.
Yates, Lloyd D., Acting Assistant Chief, Division of For-
eign Activity Correlation of the Department: Des-
ignation, 692.
Yugoslavia :
Ambassador to U.S. (Fotitch), credentials, 826.
American Ambassador to (Biddle), confirmation of
nomination, 792.
King Peter II, visit to U. S., 687.
Treaties, agreements, etc. —
Mutual aid, with U.S. (1942), joint statement by
President Roosevelt and King Peter, 647 ; text,
648.
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JULY 4, 1942
Vol. VII, No. 158— Publication 1765
G
ontents
The War Pat-e
Mutual-aid agreement with Poland 577
Exchange of diplomatic and consular personnel and
other nationals: German violation of e.xchange
agreement 579
Argentine appreciation for assistance to crew of Rio
Tercero 579
Commodities allocated to other American republics . . 580
International Conferences, Commissions, Etc.
Inter-American Conference on Systems of Economic
and Financial Control: Address by the Under
Secretary of State 580
Commercial Policy
Memorandum of agreement regarding international
trade in wheat 582
American Republics
Rubber agreement with Colombia 595
Visit to the United States of the President-elect of
Colombia 595
Cultural Relations
Visit to the United States of distinguished Argentines . 595
Visit to the United States of Chilean author 595
The Foreign Service
Personnel changes 596
The Department
Appointment of officers 596
[over]
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ontents-coNTiNVEu
TuEATY InfoUMATION l>aga
Commerce:
Trade Agreemeiit with Peru 597
Menioraiiduiu of agreement regarding internatioual
trade in wheat 597
Opium: International Opium Convention, 1912 . . . 597
Mutual guaranties: Mutual-Aid Agreement with
Polanil 597
Strategic materials: Agreenu'iit with Colombia . . . . 597
Legislation 597
The War
MUTUAL-AID AGREEMENT WITH POLAND
(Released to the press July 1]
An agreement between the Governments of
the United States and Poland on the principles
applying to mutual aid in the prosecution of the
war was signed on July 1 by the Secretary
of State and the Polish Ambassador, Jan
Ciechanowski.
The provisions of the agreement are the same
in all substantial respects as those of the agree-
ments between tViis Government and the Gov-
ernments of Great Britain, China, the Soviet
Union, and Belgium ^ which likewise were ne-
gotiated under the Lend-Lease Act of March 11,
1!M1 providing for tlie extension of aid to any
country whose defense is determined by the
President to be vital to the defense of the
United States.
This agreement provides added strength for
tlie material and spiritual foundations of the
lil)erty and welfare of all peoples, and it is a
further expression of the determination of the
United Nations to achieve ultimate victory.
The full text of the agreement follows : -
"Whereas the Governments of the United
States of America and Poland declare that they
are engaged in a cooiierative undertaking, to-
getlier with every other nation or people of like
mind, to the end of laying the bases of a just and
enduring world r>eace securing order under law
to themselves and all nations;
^Bulletin of February 28, 1942, p. 190; June 6, 1942,
p. 507 ; June 13, 1942, p. 531 ; and June 20, 1942, p. 551,
respectively.
^The text here printed oonforms to the original.
"And whereas the Governments of the United
States of America and Poland, as signatories of
the .Declaration by United Nations of Janu-
ary 1, 1942, have subscribed to a common pro-
gram of purposes and principles embodied in the
Joint Declaration made on August 14, 1941 by
the President of the United States of America
and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, known
as the Atlantic Charter ;
"And whereas the President of the United
States of America has determined, pursuant to
the Act of Congress of March 11, 1941, that the
defense of Poland against aggression is vital
to the defense of the United States of America;
"And whereas the United States of America
lias extended and is continuing to extend to
Poland aid in resisting aggression ;
"And whereas it is expedient that the final
determination of the terms and conditions upon
which the Government of Poland receives such
aid and of the benefits to be received by the
United States of Ajnerica in return therefor
should be deferred until the extent of the de-
fense aid is known and until the progress of
events makes clearer the final terms and condi-
tions and benefits which will be in the mutual
interests of the United States of America and
Poland and will promote the establislunent and
maintenance of world peace;
"And whereas the Governments of the United
States of America and Poland are mutually de-
sirous of concluding now a preliminary agree-
ment in regard to the provision of defense aid
and in regard to certain considerations which
577
578
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
shall be taken into account in determining such
terms and conditions and the making of such
an agreement has been in all respects duly
authorized, and all acts, conditions and formali-
ties which it may have been necessary to per-
form, fulfill or execute prior to the making of
such an agreement in conformity with the laws
either of the United States of America or of
Poland have been performed, fulfilled or exe-
cuted as required ;
"The undersigned, being duly authorized by
their respective Governments for that purpose,
have agreed as follows :
"Article I
"The Government of the United States of
America will continue to supply the Govern-
ment of Poland with such defense articles, de-
fense services, and defense information as the
President of the United States of America shall
authorize to be transferred or provided.
"Akticle II
"The Government of Poland will continue to
contribute to the defense of the United States
of America and the strengthening thei-eof and
will provide such articles, services, facilities or
information as it may be in a position to supply.
"Article III
"The Government of Poland will not without
the consent of the President of the United
States of America transfer title to, or possession
of, any defense article or defense information
transferred to it under the Act of March 11,
1941 of the Congress of the United States of
America or permit the use thereof by anyone
not an officer, employee, or agent of the Gov-
ernment of Poland.
"Article IV
"If, as a result of the transfer to the Govern-
ment of Poland of any defense article or de-
fense information, it becomes necessary for that
Government to take any action or make any
payment in order fully to protect any of the
rights of a citizen of the United States of
America who has patent rights in and to any
such defense article or information, the Gov-
ernment of Poland will take such action or make
such payment when requested to do so by the
President of the United States of America.
"Article V
"The Government of Poland will return to
the United States of America at the end of the
present emergency, as determined by the Presi-
dent of the United States of America, such de-
fense articles transferred under this Agreement
as shall not have been destroyed, lost or con-
sumed and as shall be determined by the Presi-
dent to be useful in the defense of the United
States of America or of the Western Hem-
isphere or to be otherwise of use to the United
States of America.
"Article VI
"In the final determination of the benefits to
be provided to the United States of America by
the Government of Poland full cognizance shall
be taken of all property, services, information,
facilities, or other benefits or considerations pro-
vided by the Government of Poland subsequent
to March 11, 1941, and accepted or acknowledged
by the President on behalf of the United States
of America.
"Article VII
"In the final determination of the benefits to
be j^rovided to the United States of America
by the Government of Poland in return for aid
furnished under the Act of Congress of March
11, 1941, the terms and conditions thereof shall
be such as not to burden commerce between the
two countries, but to promote mutually advan-
tageous economic relations between them and
the betterment of world-wide economic rela-
tions. To that end, they shall include provi-
sion for agreed action by the United States of
America and Poland, open to participation by
all other countries of like mind, directed to the
expansion, by appropriate international and
domestic measures, of production, employment,
and the exchange and consumption of goods,
which are the material foundations of the lib-
erty and welfare of all peoples ; to the elimina-
tion of all forms of discriminatory treatment
in international commerce, and to the reduction
JULY 4, 1942
579
of tariffs and other trade barriers ; and, in gen-
eral, to the attainment of all the economic ob-
jectives set forth in the Joint Declaration made
on August 14, 1941, by the President of the
United States of America and the Prune Min-
ister of the United Kingdom.
"At an early convenient date, conversations
shall be begun between the two Governments
with a view to determining, in the light of gov-
erning economic conditions, the best means of
attaining the above-stated objectives by their
own agreed action and of seeking the agreed
action of other like-minded Govermnents.
"Article VIII
"This Agreement shall take effect as from
this day's date. It shall continue in force until
a date to be agreed upon by the two Govern-
ments.
"Signed and sealed at Washington in dupli-
cate this first day of July, 1942.
"For the Government of the United States
of America:
CoEDELL Hull
Secretary of State of the
United States of America
"For the Government of Poland :
Jan CiEciiANowsKi
Ambassador of Poland
at 'WashingtorC
EXCHANGE OF DIPLOMATIC AND CON-
SULAR PERSONNEL AND OTHER NA-
TIONALS
GERMAN VIOLATION OF EXCHANGE
AGREEMENT
[Released to the press July 1]
The German Government has withdrawn the
previously agreed safe conducts for future voy-
ages of the S.S. Drottninghohn between New
York and Lisbon and has thereby violated the
exchange agreement. This Government in-
formed the German Government through the
Swiss Government by note "that the German
Government, by unilateral action, has violated
the agreement entered into between this Gov-
ernment and the German Government for the
exchange of their nationals in that it has with-
drawn the safe conduct previously given for the
several round-trip voyages of the Drottning-
holm between New York and Lisbon. As the
assurance of this safe conduct was an essential
part of the Exchange Agreement between the
two Governments, this Government must con-
sider tlie agreement as terminated by the act of
the German Government."
A list of officials and other nationals of the
United States and of the other American repub-
lics who are returning on the second voyage of
the S. S. Drottningholm from Lisbon has been
issued as Department of State press release 327,
of June 29, 1942.
ARGENTINE APPRECIATION FOR ASSIST-
ANCE TO CREW OF "RIO TERCERO"
[Released to the press July 2]
The translation of a note addressed to the
Secretary of State by the Argentine Ambassador
in Washington, Sefior Don Felipe A. Espil,
follows :
"Washington, July 1, 1942.
"Excellency :
"I take pleasure in informing Your Excel-
lency that from the investigations made in con-
nection with the sinking of the steamer Rio
Tercero, of Argentine flag, an action that oc-
curred under circumstances which are public
property, the prompt and decisive cooperation
of the naval and air forces of the United States
in the task of saving the victims from the said
vessel, almost all of them of Argentine nation-
ality, stands out clearly.
"My Government having been informed of
the intervention mentioned, instructs me to pre-
sent to Your Excellency its thanks for the aid
rendered to the shipwrecked persons with such a
cordial spirit of collaboration and friendship,
which I take pleasure in putting on record.
"I avail myself [etc.] Felipe A. Espil"
580
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
COMMODITIES ALLOCATED TO
AMERICAN REPUBLICS
OTHER
[Released to the press July 1]
The Government of the United States, follow-
ing a general plan pursued in the first and sec-
ond quarters of this year and in accordance with
the policy of close inter-American cooperation,
has annomiced in Washington a list of com-
modities allocated to the otlier Amei-ican re-
publics for the third quarter of 1942. This
announcement was made jointly by the Depart-
ment of State, the War Production Board, and
the Board of Economic Warfare.
The announced list comprises the following
inaterials : Acetic acid ; acetone ; aconite ; ammo-
nium sulphate; anhydrous ammonia; aniline;
ascorbic acid; bauxite; belladonna leaves; bella-
doima root; beryl and beryllium; cadmium;
camphor; carbon tetrachloride; castor oil;
chlorine; citric acid; cobalt; copper; cotton
linters; diamond dies; dibutyl phthalate; digi-
talis; dynamite; electrodes, carbon; electi'odes,
graphite ; ergot ; fluorspar ; formaldehyde ; glyc-
erin; graphite, natural amorphous; insulin;
ipecac; lead; leather; f erromanganese ; mer-
cury; methanol; ferromolybdenum ; naphtha-
lene; neat's-foot oil; phenol; phosphorus;
phthalic anhydride ; platinum and allied metals ;
pota-ssium permanganate; procaine; rayon (fil-
ament yarcl) ; red squill; strontium chemicals;
sulfagitanidine; sulfanilamide; sulfuric acid;
superphosphate ; thiamin hydrochloride ; toluol ;
ferrotungsten ; uranium salts and compounds;
ferrovanadium ; and zinc.
The tliird-quai-ter allocations for iron and
steel and additional commodities will be an-
nounced shortly.
International Conferences, Commissions, Etc.
INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS OF ECONOMIC
AND FINANCIAL CONTROL
ADDRESS BY THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE '
[Heleased to the press June 30]
Delegates to the Inter- American Conference
ON Systems of Economic and Financial
Control, Your Excellencies, Ladies and
Gentlemen :
It is a source of great pleasure to me to extend
to all of you on behalf of the Inter- American
Financial and Economic Advisory Committee
a cordial welcome to this Inter- American Con-
ference on Systems of Economic and Financial
Control.
Once again the 21 American republics are
meeting in conference in order still further to
fortify their solidarity, still further to
' Delivered liy Mr. Welles at the Pan Ameriean Union,
June 30, 1942.
strengthen their conmion purpose to maintain
this hemisphere forever free from any encroach-
ment upon the independence of the peoples of
the Americas, and as a citadel of human liberty.
We are confronting an attack upon the New
World which is being waged by the Axis powers
on every front upon which tliey can muster their
forces of treachery and of deceit.
For this war is not being fought today on the
military front alone. We, the free nations of
America, are today faced with the supreme and
historic mission of repelling a total assault on
our freedom and our integrity, an assault that is
being carried on not only by pirate submarines
and military arms but also by the colonies of
subversive agents on the sovereign soil of each
JULY i, 194 2
581
one of our countries. These human termites,
carrying out the will of their Axis masters, have
been gnawing for a long time, not only at the
foundations of our inter-American system but
also at the foundations of the economic struc-
ture that maintains us whole. It is for the pur-
pose of completing and integrating controls that
have already been established to thwart and to
stamp out their activities that this meeting of
technical experts from our 21 American repub-
lics is convened in Washington today.
Even by the time that the Ministers of Foreign
Affairs met at Kio de Janeiro to consult on meas-
ures for the common defense of our nations some
measures had already been adopted by the Amer-
ican republics to control the exportation or re-
exportation of merchandise, to i-estrict and con-
trol financial and coimnercial transactions with
the nations signatory to the Tripartite Pact and
the territories dominated by them, and to curb
otlier alien economic activities prejudicial to the
welfare of the Western Hemisphere.
At that meeting the representatives of the
American governments laid down, in resolution
V, an outline of the general nature and objec-
tive of commercial and financial controls that
they were luianimous in believing should be
established in order to defend the hemisphere
against the encroachments of the sinister fifth
columns that were operating in advance of the
Axis military forces. At that time they recom-
mended for immediate adoption "any additional
measures necessary to cut off for the duration of
the present Hemispheric emergency all com-
mercial and financial intercourse, direct or in-
direct, between the Western Hemisphere and the
nations signatory to the Tripartite Pact and the
territories dominated by them ;" and also "meas-
ures to eliminate all other financial and com-
mercial activities prejudicial to the welfare and
security of the American Republics ..."
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs at their
meeting in Rio de Janeiro recognized, however,
that in order to make such controls as they rec-
ommended effective against the Axis fifth col-
umn in the Western Hemisphere it would be nec-
essary that the financial authorities charged
with the administration of such controls in each
of the American republics should meet together
to consult with each other, in order to exchange
information and to pool their experience. It
would be necessary to work out the details of
joint procedures that would altogether eliminate
the financial and commercial maneuvers by
which the tools of the German and Italian and
Japanese warlords, operating in this hemi-
sphere, seek to reduce our defenses and endeavor
to prepare the way for our subjugation. It was
with this in view that the Meeting in Rio de
Janeiro recommended the convocation of this
present Inter-American Conference on Systems
of Economic and Financial Control.
The historic task that now confronts the
peoples of America, the task of defending the
traditional freedom of the American continent
against attack from abroad, cannot be accom-
plished by military means alone. We must be
no less resolute in measures to counter the eco-
nomic assault than in the measures we are taking
to meet the military threat. The soil of our
own continent is one of the great battlefields of
this war. On it we are fighting — and fighting
with increasing success — the enemy who has
insinuated himself in our midst.
Delegates to this conference, the decisions that
are made by you here at this conference and
the actions of our governments in carrying out
those decisions are of the utmost consequence
in assisting in the creation of the assurance that
the American continent shall continue to main-
tain its liberties and its independence. It is a
solemn mission with which this conference is
charged. I have faith that that mission will be
fulfilled in a manner worthy of the spirit that
has nurtured and defended the freedom of the
Americas throughout the term of our independ-
ent life.
Upon you rests a responsibility to provide
implements for the willing hands that are fight-
ing today the economic battles to preserve our
solidarity. I voice the hope of millions when I
express the firm conviction that in this critical
moment your vision, your leadership, and your
high devotion will not be found wanting.
Commercial Policy
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT REGARDING INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN WHEAT
[Released to the press July 1]
The Wheat Meeting recently held in Wash-
ington has resulted in the approval by the Gov-
ernments of Argentina, Australia, Canada, the
United Kingdom, and the United States of a
Memorandum of Agreement as a first step to-
ward the conclusion as soon as circumstances
permit of a comprehensive international wheat
agreement.
The Washington Wlieat Meeting comprised
oflBcials of five of the ten countries which par-
ticipated in the work of the Preparatory Com-
mittee established by the International Wheat
Advisory Committee at London in January 1939.
The work of the Preparatory Committee was
near completion when war broke out in Septem-
ber 1939. The war aggi-avated in several im-
portant respects tlie world wheat problem, and,
following an exchange of views between their
Governments, officials of Argentina, Australia,
Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United
States met in Washington on July 10, 1941,' to
resume the discussions which were interrupted
by the outbreak of war. They submitted to their
Governments a preliminary report in August
1941,^ reconvened in October, and have met at
frequent intervals since then to carry on their
discussions.'
The Memorandum of Agreement now con-
cluded provides for the convening by the United
States, when the time is deemed propitious, of
a conference of all the nations having a sub-
stantial interest in wheat, whether as consumers
or producers ; and there is attached to it for con-
sideration at that conference a draft convention
'Bulletin of July 12, 1941, p. 23.
' Ibid., August 9, 1941, p. 116.
" Ibid., October 18, 1941, p. 302.
582
prepared by the Washington Wheat Meeting.
In the meantime the Memorandum of Agreement
requires the adoption and maintenance on the
part of the four exporting countries of positive
measures to control production with the object of
minimizing the accumulation of excessive stocks
during the war.
The Memorandum of Agreement provides also
for the immediate establishment of a pool of
wheat for intergovernmental relief in war-
strickfin and other necessitous areas as soon as
the international situation permits. It brings
into operation the arrangements in the draft
convention for contributions to a pool, as they
may be required, of 100 million bushels and addi-
tional quantities to be determined as the extent
of the need becomes known.
In order to prevent disorganization and con-
fusion immediately after the war and pending
the conclusion of a comprehensive international
wheat agreement, the present Memorandum pro-
vides for bringing into operation for a limited
period the provisions of the draft convention
relating to the control by the four exporting
countries of production, stocks, and exports and
for cooperation by all five countries in stabiliz-
ing prices.
The approval of the five Governments was
notified by the Government of the United States
to the other four Governments on June 27 and,
in accordance with the minutes of the final
session of the Washington Wheat Meeting, the
provisions of the Memorandum of Agreement
came into effect on that date.
The texts of the Memorandum of Agreement,
including the draft convention, and of the min-
utes of the final session of the Washington
Wheat Meeting are printed below.
JtTLT 4, 1942
583
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
1. Officials of Argentina, Australia, Canada
and the United States, wheat exporting conn-
tries, and of the United Kingdom, a wheat im-
porting country, met in Washington on July 10,
1941 to I'esume the wheat discussions which
were interrupted in London by the outbreak of
war in September 1939 and to consider what
steps might be taken toward a solution of the
international wheat problem.
2. The discussions at Washington, which ex-
tended over a period of many months, have made
it clear that a satisfactory solution of the prob-
lem requires an international wheat agreement
and that such an agreement requires a confer-
ence of the nations willing to participate which
have a substantial interest in international trade
in wheat. It was also recognized that pending
tlie holding of such a conference the situation
should not be allowed to deteriorate. The
Washington Wheat Meeting has recorded the
results of its deliberations in the attached Draft
Convention in order to facilitate further inter-
national consideration of the subject at such
time as may be possible and to provide a basis
for such interim measures as may be found
necessary.
3. The Washington Wheat Meeting has rec-
ognized that it is impracticable to convene at
the present time the international wheat con-
ference referred to above. Accordingly, the
five countries jiresent at that Meeting have
agreed that the United States, so soon as after
consultation with other countries it deems the
time f)ropitious, should convene a wheat con-
ference of the nations having a substantial in-
terest in international trade in wheat which are
willing to jjarticipate, and that the Draft Con-
vention above mentioned should be submitted
to that conference for consideration.
4. In the meantime there should be no delay
in the provision of wheat for relief in war-
stricken and other necessitous areas so soon as in
the view of the five countries circumstances per-
mit. Likewise it is imperative that the absence
of control measures over the accumulation of
stocks in the four countries now producing large
quantities of wheat for markets no longer avail-
able should not create insoluble problems for a
future conference. Accordingly, the five coun-
tries have agieed to regard as in effect among
themselves, pending the conclusions of tlie con-
ference referred to abo\'e, those arrangements
described in the attached Draft Convention
which are necessary to the administration and
distribution of the relief pool of wheat and to
the control of production of wheat other than
tliose involving the control of exports.
.5. If the conference contemplated above shall
have met and concluded an agreement prior to
the cessation of hostilities, no further action will
be needed by the countries represented at the
Washington Meeting. However, if this is not
the case, it will be necessai-y, in order to prevent
disorganization and confusion in inteinational
trade in wheat, to institute temporary controls
pending the conclusions of the conference. Ac-
cordingly the five countries agree that in the
l^eriod following the cessation of hostilities and
pending the conclusion of a wheat agreement at
the conference referred to the arrangements de-
scribed in the attached Draft Convention which
relate to the control of production, stocks and
exports of wheat and to the administration
thereof will be brought into effect among them-
selves. Those arrangements will come into ef-
fect on such date as may be unanimously agreed.
Announcement of that date will be made within
six months after the cessation of hostilities.
6. Pending the conclusions of the conference
contemplated above, the five countries, on the
cessation of hostilities or such earlier date as
they may agree, will regard as in effect among
themselves the arrangements described in the
attached Draft Convention for the control of
the prices of wheat. The determination of
prices required to be made in accordance with
those arrangements will be made by unanimous
consent. If no determination of prices has been
made on the cessation of hostilities, the five
countries will, pending such determination but
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
for a period not exceeding six months, main-
tain as the export price of wheat the last price
negotiated by the United Kingdom for a bulk
purchase of wheat from the principal counti-y
of supply ; equivalent f . o. b. prices will be cal-
culated for wheats of the other exporting coun-
tries and will be adjusted from time to time to
meet substantial changes in freight and ex-
change rates.
7. In taking any decisions under this Memo-
randum and the arrangements of the Draft Con-
vention which it brings into operation each of
the five coimtries will have one vote and a two-
thii'ds majority will be required for decision
except as otherwise provided herein.
8. The provisions of tliis Memorandum will
be superseded by any agreement reached at the
proposed wheat conference or by any arrange-
ments which the five countries and other inter-
ested countries may make to deal with the
period pending such a conference. In any event
they are to terminate two years from the cessa-
tion of hostilities.
A. M. V.
For Argentina
E. kcC.
For A'mtralia
C. F. W.
For Canada
H. F. C.
For the United Kingdom
L. A. W.
For the United States
Washington, April 22, 19i2.
DRAFT CONVENTION
Preamble
1. The prospects with regard to the produc-
tion and marketing of wheat are such that ac-
cumulation of wheat surpluses threatens to re-
sult in grave post-war difficulties for the
economies of the producing countries and
hence, because of the interdependence of na-
tions, for the economies of all countries. It is
also to be expected that, unless appropriate
action is taken, such accumulation will recui'.
2. A solution of the problem thus presented
must be regarded as an essential part of any
program of world economic reconstruction and
will call for cooperative action by all countries
concerned in international trade in wheat. It
will involve national and international meas-
ures for the regulation of wheat production in
both exf)orting and importing countries, for the
orderly distribution of wheat and flour in do-
mestic and international trade at such prices as
are fair to consumers and provide a reasonable
remuneration to producers and for the mainte-
nance of world supplies which shall be at all
times ample for the needs of consumers without
being so excessive as to create a world burden of
unwanted surpluses.
3. Cooperative action is also necessary to
meet the need for relief in the war-stricken
areas of the world by the supply and distribu-
tion of gifts of wheat.
4. The benefits of abundant world supplies of
wheat cannot be assured to consumers unless
there is a substantial decrease in uneconomic
incentives to high-cost production, a lowering
of barriers to world trade and the charging of
prices to consumers not substantially higher
than the price of wheat in international trade.
5. In many countries the standard of living
would be improved by increasing the consump-
tion of wheat through a lowering of prices. In
all countries the standard of living would be
improved by stimulating the consumption of
foods rich in vitamins, proteins and minerals.
The increased jjroduction of such foods would
offer a more valuable use for land which has at
times been used uneconomically for high-cost
production of wheat.
6. Producers of an international commodity
such as wheat are directly affected by standards
of living throughout the world, by international
purchasing power and by prevailing policies
and practices affecting international trade gen-
erally. There can be no basic solution of the
problem of export surpluses without a general
reduction of import barriers and no measure
should be taken or maintained which has the
effect of retarding such reduction or of prevent-
ing in any way the fullest possible development
of international trade.
(
JULY 4, 1942
585
Accordingly the contracting Governments
have agreed as follows:
Article I (Expansion of Trade)
1. The contracting Governments agree that
an essential element of a solution of the world
wheat problem is that consumers should have
the opportunity and means of increasing their
purchases of wheat from areas which are
equipped to produce it economically. They
agree that such opportunity and means depend
not only on the lowering of barriers to the im-
portation of wheat but also on making avail-
able to wheat importing countries increased out-
lets for the exportation of goods which they in
turn are equipped to produce economically.
They agree that this requires the adoption and
pursuit of national and international policies
aimed at a fuller and more efficient use among
nations of human and natural resources and
thereby a world-wide expansion of purchasing
power.
2. Recognizing therefore that much that is
called for transcends the scope of a wheat agree-
ment and requires action on a broad interna-
tional basis, but that much also can be accom-
l^lished by national measures and by agreements
with each other and with other countries, the
contracting Governments undertake to further
in every way possible the attainment of the fore-
going objectives.
3. The Council shall from time to time submit
to the contracting Governments a review of
international trade in wheat and invite them to
consider, in the light of the foregoing, what
measures may be adopted for the expansion of
such trade.
Article II (Production Control)*
1. The Governments of Argentina, Australia,
Canada and the United States of America shall
adopt suitable measures to ensure tliat the pro-
duction of wheat in their territories does not
exceed the quantity needed for domestic re-
•Note: This Article to be expanded, when further
international consideration of the subject is possible,
to include provisions for production control in other
exporting countries and in importing countries. [Foot-
note in original.]
quirements and the basic export quotas and
maximum reserve stocks for which provision
is hereinafter made.
2. Should nevertheless production in any
country be found to have exceeded in any crop-
year the quantity above prescribed, the Govern-
ment of that country shall before the end of
that crop-year take such action as will result in
the disappearance of the excess production
within its territories before the end of the fol-
lowing crop-year or shall otherwise deal with
such excess production as the Council may di-
rect, except that if any part of the excess pro-
duction is shown to the satisfaction of the Coun-
cil to be due to a yield above the average of
the preceding 20 years the Government of the
country concerned may carry that part as pro-
vided in paragraph 3 (a) of Article III or deal
with it in such other manner as may be agreed
with the Council.
3. Pending the coming into force of para-
grajahs 1 and 2 of this Article, the Governments
of Argentina, Australia, Canada and the
United States of America shall adopt or main-
tain positive measures to control production
with the object of minimizing the accumulation
of excessive stocks.
Article III (Stocks)
1. The Governments of Argentina, Australia,
Canada and the United States of America shall,
subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2, 3, 4
and 5 of this Article, ensure that stocks of old
wheat held at the end of their respective crop-
years are not less than 35, 25, 80 and 150 mil-
lion bushels respectively, and not more than
130, 80, 275 and 400 million bushels respectively.
Any stocks not in excess of the specified maxi-
mum are hereinafter called "reserve stocks".
2. Stocks of old wheat in any country may
be permitted to fall below the specified mini-
mum (a) if the new crop together with the
carry-over from the previous crop-year is in-
sufficient to meet domestic requirements and
leave at the end of that crop-year the minimum
reserve stocks specified, in which case those
stocks may be reduced by the amount necessary
fully to meet domestic requirements, and (b) in
so far as the Council decides that exports from
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
the minimum reserve stocks of tliat country are
required fully to meet the world demand for
imported wheat.
3. Stocks of old wheat may exceed the maxi-
mum by (a) the quantity of permitted excess
stocks ascertained under paragraph 4 of this
Article and (b) the quantity of permitted sur-
plus stocks ascertained under paragraph 5 of
this Article.
4. Such part of excess production in the first
crop-year in which it occurs following the crop-
year in which Article IV comes into force as
may be shown under f)aragraph 2 of Article II
to be clue to above average yields shall be per-
mitted excess stocks at the end of that crop-
year. The permitted excess stocks at the end of
each succeeding crop-year shall be ascertained
by the G)uncil by deducting from the permitted
excess stocks, if any, at the end of the preceding
crop-year any quantity by which production in
the crop-year then ending was less than the
maximum jDrescribed in paragraph 1 of Article
II or by adding thereto such part of any excess
production in that crop-year as may be shown
under paragraph 2 of Article II to be due to
above average yields.
5. Stocks in excess of the maximum, as ascer-
tained by the Council, at the end of the crop-
year in which announcement is made of the date
on which the provisions of Articles II, III and
IV will come into effect shall be permitted sur-
plus stocks, unless that announcement is made
less than 45 days prior to the beginning of the
seeding period for the next harvest in which
case stocks in excess of the maxiniiun at the end
of the succeeding crop-year shall be permitted
surplus stocks. Permitted surplus stocks at the
end of each succeeding crop-year shall be ascer-
tained by the Council by deducting from the per-
mitted surplus stocks at the end of the
preceding crop-year (a) any secondary or sup-
plementary export quotas allocated in the crop-
year then ending and (b) any quantity by which
production in that crop-year plus the permitted
excess stocks at the end of the preceding crop-
year was less than the maximum production
prescribed in paragraph 1 of Article II.
6. Should it be shown to the satisfaction of
the Comicil that, owing to insuflficient or defec-
tive storage facilities, any part of the permitted
surplus stocks in any country has been destroyed
or has been disposed of by governmental meas-
ures in a manner clearly constituting extraor-
dinary use such part shall nevertheless be
counted as jjermitted surplus stocks for the pur-
poses of paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article IV so
long as any other permitted surplus stocks re-
main in that country.
7. The Council shall—
(a) at its regular August meeting ascertain
the permitted surplus stocks in Canada and the
United States of America at the end of their
preceding crop-years and estimate such stocks
in Argentina and Australia at the end of their
current crop-years and
(b) at its regular January meeting ascertain
the permitted surplus stocks in Argentina and
Australia at the end of their preceding crop-
years and estimate such stocks in Canada and
the United States of America at the end of
their current crojj-years.
Article IV (Export Control)
1. The contracting Government of each ex-
porting country shall adopt the measures nec-
essary to ensure that net exports of wheat, in-
cluding flour expressed in terms of its wheat
equivalent, from its territories in each quota-
year shall not, subject to the provisions of para-
graph 11 of this Article, exceed the basic, sec-
ondary and supplementary export quotas for
which 23rovision is hereinafter made. It is rec-
ognized in principle that, within the framework
of this Agreement, wheat from each exporting
country should continue to find its way into its
normal markets.
2. The basic exjDort quotas for Argentina,
Australia, Canada and the United States of
America shall, subject to the provisions of para-
graph 3 of this Article, be 25, 19, 40 and 16
percent respectively of the Council's latest pub-
lished estimate of the total volume of interna-
tional trade in wheat and flour in each quota-
year less (a) such basic export quotas for other
JULY 4, 1942
587
exporting countries as may be agreed under
Article XIV and (b) reasonable allowances,
having due regard to exports in past years, for
net exports from tlie territories of Governments
not parties to the Agreement.
3. Should the residual quantity ascertained
under paragraph 2 of this Article exceed 500
million bushels in any quota-year, the excess
shall be allocated to Argentina, Australia,
Canada and the United States of America as sec-
ondary export quotas. Allocations made in the
first half of the quota-year shall be in proportion
to permitted surplus stocks as determined under
paragrapli 7 (a) of Article III and allocations
made in the second half of the quota-year shall
be in proportion to permitted surplus stocks as
iletermined under paragraph 7 (b) of Article
111. Should there be no peimitted surplus stocks
in any of those four countries the excess shall be
allocated to those countries as secondary export
quotas in proportion to their basic export quotas.
4. If the Council is satisfied that any part of
any country's export quota or of the allowance
made for its exports for any quota-year will not
be exported by that country in that quota-year,
it shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph
G of this Article, re-allocate that part as supple-
mentary export quotas to the other exporting
countries in accordance with the procedure pre-
scribed in paragraph 3 of this Article for the
allocation of secondary export quotas. Should
there be no permitted surplus stocks in any of
those countries that part shall, unless the Council
otherwise decides, be re-allocated as supple-
mentary export quotas to those of the other
exjjorting countries which have percentage ex-
port quotas in projoortion to those quotas.
5. No decisions taken by the Council pursuant
to paragraph 4 of this Article shall prejudice
tlie right of any country to export its full export
quota within the quota-year to which it relates.
6. Should it be shown to the satisfaction of the
Council that the failure of any country to ship
any part of its export quota during the first
quota-year is due to shortage of shipping, the
amount of the supplementary export quotas
allocated to other countries in respect of such
part shall be deducted from the basic export
quotas of those countries for the second quota-
year and added to the aforementioned country's
basic export quota for the second quota-year.
7. No export quota or part thereof shall be
exported in any quota-year other than that to
which it relates, except as otherwise provided
in this Article. Should it nevertheless be shown
to the satisfaction of the Council that, owing to
unavoidable delay in the arrival or departure of
ships, part of an export quota had not been
shipped at the end of the quota-year that part
may be shipped in the following quota-year but
shall be deemed to have been shipped in the
quota-year to which it relates.
8. No export quota or part thereof shall be
ceded, transferred or loaned by any country
except as provided in this Article or with the
unanimous approval of the contracting Gov-
ernments of exporting countries.
9. Wlien it appears that any country is ap-
proaching the limit of its export quota, the
Chairman of the Council on the recommendation
of the Executive Committee shall request the
Govermnent of that country to control loadings
for export during the remainder of the quota-
year and to telegraph each week to the Council
the gross exports and gross imports of wdieat
and of wheat flour from and into its territories
during the preceding week.
10. When the Chairman of the Council after
consultation with the Executive Committee
finds that any country has exported its export
quota for any quota-year he shall immediately
make a declaration to that effect. The con-
tracting Govermnent of the exporting country
concerned shall thereupon announce that the
exportation of wheat or flour from its territories
will not be permitted after seven days from the
date of the Chairman's declaration and the con-
tracting Government of each importing country
shall not permit the importation into its terri-
tories of wheat or flour shipi^ed from that ex-
porting country during the current quota-year
more than seven days after the date of the Chair-
man's declaration.
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11. Should it be found that, owing to prac-
tical diflicultios of closely controlling shipments,
ex[K)rts from any country have exceeded its ex-
port (|U()(ii, that country shall not be deemed to
have infringed the pi'ovisions of paragraph 1
of this Article so long as the excess is not more
(lian 5 percent of tho (luota, but the amount of
that excess up to 15 percent of the quota and three
times tho amount of that excess above 3 percent
of the quota shall be deducted from that coun-
try's export (piota for the following (piota-year.
V2. 'J'he contracting Governments recognize
that international trade in wheat should be dis-
tributed on a fair and equitable basis among
all countries which ex))oi't. wheat and they ngi'ee
that the elfcctive operation of the Agreement
should not be impaired by abnormal exports
from countries that have not acceded to it. Ac-
cordingly the contracting (Jovernments shall
cooperate in taking, on the advice of the Council,
such ])ractical)le measures as may be necessary
to attain this end.
AuTicLE V (Price Control)
1. The Council shall fix and publish prior to
the coming into force of Ailicle IV and there-
al'ler at each regular August meeting a basic
niinimiini ])rice and a basic maxinuun price of
wheal, c.i.f. United Kingdom ports, and sched-
ules of prices, c.i.f. and/or f.o.b., equivalent
thi'ii'lo for tho various wheals sold in world
markets. These prices sludl take effect on such
date as may be determined by the Council and
shall remain in force until the effective dale of
the prices fixed by the Council at its next regular
August meeting but shall bo subject to such ad-
justments as tho Council may find necessary to
meet substantial clianges in freight or exchange
rates or as may bo made in accordance with tho
provisions of paragraph 3 of tliis Article.
2. The prices fi.xed under paragraph 1 of this
Article shall be such as will in the opinion of
tho Council (a) return reasonably rennmerative
prices to producers in exporting countries, (b)
bo fair to consumers in inqjorting countries,
(c) be in reasonable relationship to prices of
other commodities and (d) make ap|)roprialo
allowance foi' exchange rates and transportation
costs.
3. Shoidd the Council so decide the basic
niininunn and maximum prices of wheat and the
schedules of prices equivalent thereto shall be
adjusted at monthly or otiier intervals to allow
for carrying charges.
4. The Governments of Argentina, Australia,
Canada and the United States of America shall
not, after the coming into force of paragiaph 1
of this Article, sell or permit the sale of wheat
for export, or to millers for producing flour for
exj)ort, at i)rices below the mininnnn ecpiivalents
li.xed by tho Council under paragraph 1 or 3 of
this Article.
5. The Governments of Argentina, Australia,
Canada and tho United States of America shall
ensure that wheat for export is at all times on
sale at f.o.b. prices not in excess of the maximum
e(iuivalents fixed by the Council under para-
graph 1 or 3 of this Article.
Article VI (Reuef Pool)
1. The Governments of Argentina, Australia,
Canada, the TTiiited Kingdom and tho United
States of America .sliall establish a pool of wheat
which will be available for intergovernmental
relief in war-stricken countries and other neces-
sitous areas of the world, where circmnstances
in the view of those Governments make such re-
lied' practicable.
2. The Governments of Canada, the United
Kingdom and tho United States of America
shall give to the pool, as and when required by
the Council, 25, 25 and 50 million bushels re-
spectively of wheat, or its equivalent in whole
or part in flour, f.o.b. seaboard port in the
country of origin.
3. The Governments of Argentina, Australia,
Canada and tho United States of America shall,
as and when required by the Council, give to
tho pool in addition to tho contributions pre-
scribed in paragraph 2 of this Article a quantity
of wheat or its equivalent in wliole or part in
flour, f.o.b. seaboard port, to be determined by
them in consultation with the Council and on
such basis as may be agreed among them.
4. Tho Council shall bo resj)onsible for tho
administration of tho relief jiool and shall,
wherever possible, arrange for the distribution
of relief wheat through such intergovernmental
JULY 4, 1942
589
relief body as may bo set, up and given general
responsibility for the distribution of relief.
Sliould (lip Council decide to make relief wheat
or flour a\iiilnbl(^ to any necessitous area in
which the intergovernmental relief body has not
tile orgiiuiziition uoccssary for the distribution
of such wliciit or iloiir the Council shall arrange
with the appropi-iate authorities to distribute
such wheat or flour in that area. Any arrange-
ments for the distribution of relief wheat shall
be such as lo minimize, so far as the provision
of sufficient relief permits, the reduction of the
effective demand for wheat on sale.
5. The United Kingdom Government may, if
so agreed by the Council after consultation with
the intergovernmental relief body, contribute
transportation of relief wheat or flour in lieu
of part or all of its contribution under para-
grajih 2 of this Article.
6. Any contributing Government shall, if the
Council after consultation with the intergov-
ernmental relief body so requests and upon
such terms of replacement as may be agreed
with the Council, make, pending the arrival of
contributions by other Governments, advances
of such wheat or flour as that Government may
consider practicable to release for immediate
relief.
7. Should the Council consider or be advised
by the intergovernmental relief body that the
quantity of relief wheat contributed under par-
agraphs 2, 3 and 5 of this Article appears likely
to prove insufficient, the Council shall make
recommendations to the contiacting Govern-
ments regarding additional contributions.
8. The Council shall instruct the Executive
Committee (a) to facilitate the transfer of re-
lief wheat and flour from the national wheat-
handling organizations of the contributing
Governments to the intergovernmental relief
body, (b) to maintain effective liaison between'
the national wheat-handling and shipping or-
ganizations of the contributing Governments
and international shipping and transport con-
trols and (c) generally to consult with the
intergovernmental relief body regarding all
transactions relating to the relief pool.
9. Should the Council receive, at any time
after the completion of the relief to which the
provisions of paragraphs 1 to 8 of this Article
relate, an appeal for relief wheat or flour from
any Govoniiiieiit to iclievc faiuinc in any area
within the jurisdiction of that Government, the
Council shall investigate the possibilities of
meeting such an ai)])eal and rcjiort to the con-
tracting Govei'iimcnts its findings together with
its recommendations.
Article VII (The Council)*
1. This Agicciiiciit sliiill be administered by
an Internatioiia! Wheat Council consisting of
one or more delegates of each contracting Gov-
ernment.
2. The Council shall have the powers specifi-
cally assigned to it under the Agreement and
such other powers as are necessary for the effec-
tive operation of the Agreement and for the
carrying out of its provisions.
3. The Council may, by unanimity of the
votes cast, delegate the exercise of any of its
powers or functions to such persons or bodies
as it thinks fit.
4. The Council shall elect, for such periods
and upon such conditions as it may determine,
a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, who need
not be delegates of contracting Governments.
5. The Council shall appoint a Secretary and
such other employees as it considers necessary
and determine their powers, duties, compensa-
tion and duration of employment.
C. The seat of the Council shall be in London
unless the Council should otherwise determine.
7. The Council shall meet in January and
August of each year and at such other times as
it may determine. The Chairman shall convene
a meeting of the Council if so requested (a) by
the Executive Committee or (b) by the dele-
gates of five contracting Govei'iiments or (c)
by the delegates of coiiti acting Governments
with a total of not jess than votes.
8. Notices of all meetings shall be (lisi)atched
so as to ensui'e receipt by delegations of con-
tracting Governments at least fourteen days in
advance of the date fixed for the meeting.
•Ni/rE: This Article to be oxpiiiidcd, when further
inlcrii;ili()n;il coMsirtcnition of tlic sulijcct is possilile, to
iiicliidi' provi.sioiis for voting. [Footnote In original.]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
9. Any contracting Government may desig-
nate the delegation of any other contracting
Government to represent it and to vote on its
behalf at any meeting of the Council or on any
particular question. The terms of any such
delegation of authority shall be communicated
ill writing by the delegating Government to the
Chairman of the Council.
10. The Council may take decisions, without
holding a meeting, by correspondence between
the Chairman and tlie delegations of the con-
tracting Governments, unless any delegation
objects. Any decisions so taken shall be com-
municated forthwith to all the delegations and
shall be recorded in the Minutes of the next
meeting of the Council.
11. The Council shall make at the earliest
practicable date all possible arrangements
with international shipping controls to facili-
tate the exportation of wheat.
12. The Council shall instruct the Executive
Committee (a) to cooperate with bodies en-
gaged in tlie task of improving human nutri-
tion, (b) to investigate the possibilities of in-
creasing wheat consumption and (c) to examine
and report upon any proposals made to the
Council by any contracting Government de-
signed to facilitate the attainment of the objec-
tives of the Agreement.
13. The Council shall ascertain and make
public the carry-over of wheat in Ai'gentina.
Australia, Canada and the United States of
America at the end oi each of their respective
crop-years.
14. The Council shall, upon the request of
any contracting Government of an exporting
country, investigate the possibility of meeting
the needs of that country for wheat storage
facilities to maintain in a good state of preser-
vation such stocks of wheat as may accumulate
prior to the coining into force of Article IV.
The Council shall report to the contracting Gov-
ernments its findings together with its recom-
mendations.
15. The Council shall at its regular August
meeting make and publish, with such detail as
it considers desirable, an estimate of the total
volume of international trade in wheat and flour
in the current quota-year and shall from time
to time review that estimate and publish such
revised estimates as it may make.
16. The Council shall publish an annual re-
port on the operation of the Agreement which
shall include a summary of relevant statistics
and such other material as the Council may
determine. The Council may authorize the
publication of such other reports as it considers
appropriate. Reports shall be published in
English and in any other languages that the
Council may determine.
17. Pending the establishment of the Execu-
tive Committee under Article VIII, the Council
shall itself perform the functions assigned by
the Agreement to that Committee.
18. The Council may arrange to take over
the assets and liabilities of the Wheat Advisory
Committee upon the dissolution of that body
on such terms as may be agreed with it.
Article VIII (The Executive Committee)
1. The Council shall, when it considers it
desirable to do so, establish an Executive Com-
mittee which shall work under its general direc-
tion.
2. The Chairman of the Executive Committee
shall be appointed by the Council for such pe-
riod and upon such conditions as it may deter-
mine. He need not be a delegate of a contract-
ing Govermnent to the Council or a member of
the Committee.
3. The Secretary of the Council shall be the
Secretary of the Executive Committee.
4. In addition to the specific duties for which
provision is made in this Agreement, the Ex-
ecutive Committee shall be charged with the
general duty of keeping under review the work-
ing of the Agreement and of reporting to the
Council from time to time on the manner in
JULY 4, 1942
591
which the provisions of the Agreement are being
carried out.
5. The Executive Committee may be convened
at any time by its Chairman.
6. The decisions of the Executive Committee
shall be taken by a simple majority of the total
votes held by its members.
Article IX (Reports to the Council)
1. Each contracting Government shall make
to the Council such reports as the Council may
from time to time request on the action which
that Government has taken to carry out the pro-
visions of this Agreement.
2. Each contracting Govermnent shall upon
request telegraph each month to the Council
the gross exi^orts and gross imports of wheat
and of wheat flour from and into its territories
in the preceding month, and shall supply such
other information as the Council may from time
to time request for the purposes of the Agree-
ment.
Article X (Finance)
1. The contracting Governments shall share
proportionally to the votes which they hold in
the Council any expenses incurred by the Coun-
cil in administering this Agreement.
2. The Council shall at its first meeting ap-
prove its budget for the period prior to the
first day of the month of August after its first
regular January meeting and assess the contri-
bution to be paid by each contracting Govern-
ment for that period.
3. The Council shall at each regular January
meeting approve its budget for the following
August-July jjeriod and assess the contribution
to be paid by each contracting Government for
that period.
4. The initial contribution of any Government
acceding to the Agreement after the first meet-
ing of the Council shall be assessed propor-
tionally to the number of its votes in the Council
and to the number of full months between its
accession and the beginning of the first August-
July period for which it is assessed under the
provisions of paragraph 3 of this Article, but
the assessments already made upon other Gov-
ernments shall remain unaltered.
5. The Council shall publish an audited state-
ment of all moneys received and paid out during
the period referred to in paragraph 2 of this
Article and during each August-July period
thereafter.
6. Consideration shall be given by each con-
tracting Government to the possibility of ac-
cording to the funds of the Council and to the
salaries paid by the Council to its employees
who are nationals of other countries treatment
in respect of taxation and of foreign exchange
control no less favourable than that accorded
by such Government to the funds of any other
Government and to salaries paid by any other
Government to any of its accredited representa-
tives who are its nationals.
7. The Council shall determine the dis-
posal, on the termination of the Agreement,
of any funds which remain after meeting its
obligations.
Article XI (Date Upon Which the Agree-
ment Comes Into Force) *
Article XII (Duration of the Agreement)
This Agreement shall remain in force for
four years after the last day of the month of
July following the date upon which it comes
into force. The Council shall inquire of the
contracting Governments at least six months
before the Agreement is due to expire whether
they desire to continue it and shall report to the
contracting Governments the results of such in-
quiry together with its recommendations.
♦Note : The text of this Article to be determined
when further international consideration of the subject
Is possible. [Footnote in original.]
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Article XIII (Relation to Other
Agreements)
1. So long as this Agreement remains in force
it shall prevail over any provisions inconsistent
therewith which may be contained in any other
agreement previously concluded between any of
the contracting Governments.
2. Should any contracting Government be
party to an agreement with a non-contracting
Government containing any provision inconsist-
ent with this Agreement, that contracting Gov-
ernment shall take all reasonable steps to pro-
cure the necessary amendment of such agree-
ment at the earliest date which it deems
practicable.
Article XIV (Accessions)
This Agreement shall at any time be open to
accession by the Government of any counti-y on
the terms contained therein so far as they are
applicable to that Government and on such other
terms not inconsistent therewith as may be
agreed with the Council. It shall accede as
the Government either of an exporting country
or of an importing country as may be agreed
with the Council and if it accedes as the Gov-
ernment of an exporting country it shall have
such basic export quota as may be agreed with
the Council.
Article XV (Withdrawals)
1. The contracting Government of any coun-
try which considers its national security en-
dangered as a result of hostilities may apply to
the Council for the suspension of any of its obli-
gations under Articles II, III, IV and V of
this Agreement. If the application is not
granted within 30 days after the date thereof,
such Government may within 15 days after the
end of that period withdraw from the Agree-
ment on written notice to the Council.
2. If it is shown to the satisfaction of the
Council that the (Jovernment of Argentina, of
Australia, of Canada or of the United States of
America has failed to carry out its obligations
under paragraph 1 of Article IV or paragraph 4
of Article V, tlic contracting Government of any
exporting country may within 90 days with-
draw from the Agreement on 30 days' written
notice to the Council.
3. If tlie Government of Argentina, of Aus-
tralia, of Canada or of the United States of
America withdraws from the Agreement, the
Agreement shall thereupon terminate, unless the
Council, by three-fourths of the total votes held
in the Council, decides to maintain the Agree-
ment with whatever modifications it may deem
necessary.
Article XVI (Territories)
1. The riglits and obligations under tliis
Agreement of the Government of Argentina
apply to the Customs territorj' thereof; those of
the Government of Australia to Australia and
her territories; those of the Government of
Canada to the Customs territory thereof; those
of the Government of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Great
Britain and Northern Ireland; and those of the
Government of the United States of America to
the Customs territory thereof.
2. In the event of the Government of any
other country acceding to the Agreement under
Article XIV, the Council shall agree with the
said acceding Government as to the territories
to which the rights and obligations of the said
acceding Government under the Agreement shall
apply.
Article XVII (Definitions)
For the purposes of this Agreement:
1. "Bushel" means sixty pounds avoirdupois.
2. "Carrying charges" means the costs in-
curred for storage, interest and insurance in
holding wheat.
3. "Carry-over" means the aggregate of the
stocks in any country, as ascertained by the
Council under paragraph 13 of Article VII, of
old wheat at the end of the crop-year held (a)
in all elevators, warehouses and mills, (b) in
transit or at railroad sidings and (c) on farms,
except tliat in the case of Canada "carry-over"
means in addition the stocks of wheat of Cana-
dian origin held in bond in the United States
of America.
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593
4. "Council"' means the Inteniational Wheat
Council for which provision is made in Article
VII.
5. "Crop-year" means in respect of Argentina
and Australia, the period from December 1 to
November 30; in respect of Canada, the period
from August 1 to July 31; and in respect of
the United States of America, the period July
1 to June 30.
6. "Domestic requirements" means all use of
wheat and flour during any crop-year within
the territories of each contracting Government
for human and animal consumption, for indus-
trial purposes, and for seed, and waste.
7. "Equivalent", with reference to the meas-
urement of flour in terms of wheat, means a
quantity calculated in the ratio of such number
of pounds of flour to 100 pounds of wheat as the
Council shall determine.
8. "Executive Committee" means the Execu-
tive Committee established by the International
Wheat Council under Article VIII.
9. "Exporting country" means Argentina,
Australia, Canada, the United States of Amer-
ica or any country that may accede as such to
the Agreement under Article XIV.
10. "Export quota" means basic export quota
together with any secondary or supplementary
export quota allocated under Article IV.
11. "Extraordinary use" means use which the
Council is satisfied would not have taken place
but for the governmental measures referred to
in paragraph 6 of Article III.
12. "Gross exports" means the total quantity
of wheat, including flour expressed in terms of
its wheat equivalent, shipped from the terri-
tories of any Government, except that in the
case of Canada "gross exports" means the over-
seas clearances of Canadian wheat from sea-
board ports in Canada and the United States
of America, plus imports of wheat from Canada
into the United States of America for consump-
tion and for milling in bond, plus flour ex-
pressed in terms of its wheat equivalent shipped
from Canadian territories.
13. "Gross imports" means the total quantity
of wheat, including flour expi'essed in terms of
its wheat equivalent, imported into tlie terri-
tories of any Government.
14. "Importing country" means the United
Kingdom or any country that may accede as
such to the Agreement under Article XIV.
15. "Net exports" means gross exports minus
gross imports.
16. "Net imports" means gross imports minus
gross exports.
17. "New crop" means wheat harvested not
more than two months prior to the beginning
of the current crop-year.
18. "Old wheat" means wheat harvested more
than two months prior to the beginning of the
current croi^-year.
19. "Quota-year" means the period ending
July 31 following the date upon which the
Agreement comes into force and thereafter the
period from August 1 to July 31.
20. "Seaboard port" means any sea or river
port at which a sea-going ship of 6000 tons gross
can load.
21. "Shipped" means transported in any man-
ner.
22. "Territories" means territory, or group of
territories, to which the rights and obligations
of the Agreement apply in accordance with the
provisions of Article XVI.
23. "The beginning of the seeding period for
the next harvest" means in respect of Argentina,
May 1; in respect of Australia and Canada,
April 1 ; and in respect of the United States of
America, September 1.
24. "Total volume of international trade in
wheat and flour" means the aggregate of the net
export from each country of the world.
25. "Wlieat Advisory Committee" means the
Committee established under the Final Act of
the Conference of Wheat Exporting and Im-
porting Countries held in London at the Offices
of the High Commissioner for Canada, from
August 21 to 25, 1933.
26. "Yield" means quantity of production per
unit of sown area.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BXn^LETTN
MINUTES OF THE FINAL SESSION OF THE
WASHINGTON WHEAT MEETING
The officials of the five countries participating
in the Washington Wheat Meeting record as
follows their understanding regarding certain
provisions of the Memorandum of Agreement
entered into pursuant to that Meeting:
1. The arrangements referred to in paragraph
4 of the Memorandum, relating to the relief
pool of wheat and to the control of production,
mean the following provisions of the Draft
Convention attached thereto : paragraph 3 of
Article II (Production Control), Articles VI
(Relief Pool), VII (The Council) except para-
graph 6, X (Finance), XVII (Definitions)
and, should the Council at any time so decide.
Article VIII (The Executive Committee).
2. The arrangements referred to in paragraph
5 of the Memorandum, relating to the control
of production, stocks and exports and to the ad-
ministration thereof, mean the following pro-
visions of the Draft Convention, in addition to
Articles VII (except paragraph 6), VIII, X
and XVII referred to aobve : paragraphs 1 and
2 of Article II (Production Control), Article
III (Stocks), Article IV (Export Control) ex-
cept the provisions of paragraphs 10 and 12
relating to the obligations of importing coun-
tries since those jirovisions are not regarded as
essential to the interim measures contemplated
in the Memorandum, Article IX (Reports To
The Council) and Article XVI (Territories).
3. The words "cessation of hostilities" in the
Memorandum mean the earliest date at which
none of the five countries is engaged in sub-
stantial belligerent operations.
4. The words "arrangements described in the
attached Draft Convention" in paragraph 6 of
the Memorandum mean the provisions of Ar-
ticle V of the Draft Convention.
5. The words "equivalent f .o.b. prices" which
will be calculated for wheats of the other export-
ing countries under paragraph 6 of the Mem-
orandum mean the prices of Argentine, Austral-
ian and United States wheats which will be as-
certained by the unanimous vote of the Council
as equivalent to the last price negotiated by
the United Kingdom for a bulk purchase of
wheat from Canada.
6. The seat of the Council will be in Wash-
ington during the period in which the Memo-
randum of Agi-eement is in force, miless the
Council should otherwise determine.
7. The Minutes of the Washington Wlieat
Meeting, together with the Reports of its Com-
mittees, will be available for the information of
the Council during the period in which the
Memorandum of Agreement is in force.
8. The English texts of the Memorandum of
Agreement and of the present Minutes have been
initialled by Anselmo M. Viacava, Edwin
McCarthy, Charles F. AVilson, Harold F. Car-
lill, and Leslie A. AVlieeler, officials of Argen-
tina, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom
and the United States respectively, as competent
experts in a position to reflect the views of their
respective Governments. The Memorandum,
the Draft Convention and the present Minutes
will be transmitted in English and Spanish by
the Government of the United States to the other
four Governments for their approval. So soon
as the approval of the five Governments has been
notified to each of them the provisions of the
Memorandum of Agreement will be deemed to
come into effect and the Memorandum of Agree-
ment together with the Draft Convention at-
tached thereto and the present Minutes will be
made public.
A. M. V.
For Argentina
E. McC.
For Australia
C. F. W.
For Canada
H. F. C.
For the United Kingdom
L. A. W.
For the United States
Washington, April 22, 19iS.
JULY i, 1942
595
American Republics
Cultural Relations
RUBBER AGREEMENT WITH COLOMBIA
(Released to the press July 3]
The signing of a rubber agreement with Co-
lombia was announced on July 3 by the Depart-
ment of State, the Kubber Reserve Company,
and the Board of Economic Warfare.
Under the terms of the agreement the Rubber
Reserve Company will purchase during the next
five years all rubber produced in Colombia
which is not required for essential domestic
needs there.
Colombia has been producing and exporting
relatively small quantities of rubber. It is ex-
pected that eventually, with development of
potential resources, somewhat larger supplies
will be available annually from Colombia.
This agreement is the fifth under the United
States program to secure for tlie united war
effort the maximum possible amount of rub-
ber produced in the Western Hemisphere. The
other agreements, already in effect, are with
Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Ne-
gotiations for similar agreements are proceed-
ing with a number of other American rubber-
producing countries.
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF THE
PRESIDENT-ELECT OF COLOMBIA
[Released to tbe press June 29]
His Excellency Alfonso Lopez, President-
elect of the Republic of Colombia, has accepted
the invitation of the President to visit the
United States as a guest of this Government.
The President-elect and his party are scheduled
to arrive in Washington on or about July 10.
President-elect Lopez visited the United
States in June 1934 as a guest of this Govern-
ment, prior to his first term as President of
Colombia.
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF
DISTINGUISHED ARGENTINES
(Released to the press June 29]
Ezequiel Martinez Estrada, the distinguished
Argentine author, and Horacio Butler, the well-
known Argentine painter, arrived in Washing-
ton on June 29. Both are here at the invita-
tion of the Department of State and will spend
several days in Washington before beginning
their respective visits to universities, libraries,
and museums in this country.
Dr. Martinez Estrada, who is on the faculty
of the University of La Plata, has received sev-
eral national literary awards, including the first
prize for literature of Argentina for his book
Humoresca.
Senor Horacio Butler, outstanding among the
artists of his country, is the recipient, among
other honors, of a gold medal for one of his
paintings, which was exhibited at the Paris Ex-
position of 1937.
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF
CHILEAN AUTHOR
[Released to the press July 3]
Raiil Silva Castro, influential young writer
of Chile and a member of the staff of the Na-
tional Library at Santiago, arrived in Washing-
ton on July 2 to visit libraries in this country at
the invitation of the Department of State.
Seiior Silva Castro will spend several days
in Washington, devoting special attention to the
Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Con-
gress, before continuing his tour.
He has published many bibliographical
studies and several volumes of literary criticism
and has edited special editions of the works of
various authors. He has made a special study
of the short story in Chile and has published
an anthology and several critical volumes on the
subject.
596
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
The Foreign Service
PERSONNEL CHANGES
[Released to the press July 4]
The following changes have occui-red in the
American Foreign Service since June 27, 1942 :
Burton Y. Berry, of Fowler, Ind., formerly
Second Secretary of Embassy at Rome, Italy,
has been assigned as Consul at Istanbul, Turkey.
Louis F. Blanchard, of Santa Fe, N. Mex.,
clerk at Mexico, D.F., Mexico, has been ap-
i:)ointed Vice Consul at Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
Earl Wilbert Eaton, of Laredo, Tex., Vice
Consul at Durango, Mexico, has been appointed
Vice Consul at Nuevitas, Cuba.
Frederick E. Farnsworth, of Colorado
Springs, Colo., Consul at Montreal, Canada, has
been designated Third Secretary of Legation
and Consul at Ottawa, Canada, and will serve
ill dual capacity.
Frank Anderson Henry, of Wilmington, Del.,
Consul at Malta, has been assigned as Consul
at Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa.
Julius C. Jensen, of Casper, Wyo., Vice Con-
sul at Ziirich, Switzerland, has been appointed
Vice Consul at Basel, Switzerland.
John D. Johnson, of Highgate, Vt., now serv-
ing in the Department of State, has been as-
signed as Consul at Montreal, Canada.
Reginald S. Kazanjian, of Newport, R.I.,
Vice Consul at Florianopolis, Brazil, has been
assigned as Consul at Florianopolis, Brazil.
John Belfort Keogh, of New York, N.Y.,
Vice Consul at Bradford, England, has been
appointed Vice Consul at London, England.
Ralph Miller, of New York, N.Y., Second
Secretary of Embassy at Habana, Cuba, has
been assigned as Consul at Mombasa, Kenya,
where he will open a new office.
R. Borden Reams, of Luthersburg, Pa.,
formerly Second Secretary of Legation at
Copenhagen, Denmark, has been assigned for
duty in the Department of State.
Francis L. Spalding, of Brookline, Mass., Sec-
ond Secretary of Legation at Cairo, Egypt,
has been assigned for duty in the Department
of State.
Charles H. Taliaferro, of Harrisonburg, Va.,
Vice Consul at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada,
has been appointed Vice Consul at Cartagena,
Colombia.
Milton Patterson Thompson, of Chattanooga,
Tenn., Vice Consul at Nuevitas, Cuba, has been
assigned as Vice Consul at Durango, ]Mexico.
Howard K. Travers, of Central Valley, N.Y.,
formerly Consul General at Budapest, Hun-
gary, has been assigned for duty in the Depart-
ment of State.
Fletcher AVarren, of Wolfe City, Tex., First
Secretary of Embassy and Consul at Bogota,
Colombia, has been designated Counselor of
American Embassy at Bogota, Colombia.
George Lybrook West, Jr., of San Francisco,
Calif., Vice Consul at Godthaab, Greenland, has
been designated Third Secretary of Legation at
Stockholm, Sweden.
Lloyd D. Yates, of Washington, D.C., for-
merly Second Secretary of Embassy at Berlin,
Germany, has been assigned for duty in the
Department of State.
The Department
APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
Mr. Samuel Reber, a Foreign Service officer
of class III, was designated an Assistant Chief
of the Division of European Affairs, effective
July 2, 1942 (Departmental Order 1067).
Mr. Robert F. Woodward, a Foreign Service
ofhcer of class VII, was designated an Assistant
Chief of the Division of the American Repub-
lics, effective July 2, 1942 (Departmental Order
1068).
JULY i, 1942
597
Treaty Information
COMMERCE
Trade Agreement with Peru
[Released to the press June 29]
On June 29, 1942 the President proclaimed
the trade agreement between the United States
and Peru, signed at Washington on May 7, 1942.
The President of Peru also issued his proclama-
tion of the agreement on June 29, 1942.
Article XVI of the agreement provides that
it shall enter into full force on the thirtieth clay
following its proclamation by the Presidents of
tiie two countries or, if the proclamations are
issued on different clays, on the thirtieth day fol-
lowing the date of the later in time of the proc-
lamations. Accordingly, the agreement will
enter into force on July 29, 1942. The full text
of the agreement and related notes will shortly
be printed in the Executive Agreement Series.
Memorandum of Agreement Regarding Inter-
national Trade in Wheat
The text of a Memorandum of Agreement ap-
proved by tlie Governments of Argentina, Aus-
tralia, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United
States effective June 27, 1942 in accordance with
the provisions of the minutes of the final session
of the Wtishington Wheat Meeting, as well as
the text of a draft convention attached to the
Memorandum of Agreement which is to be con-
sidered at a future conference on wheat, ap-
pears in this Bulletin under the heading "Com-
mercial Policy".
OPIUM
International Opium Convention, 1912
Egypt
By a note dated June 11, 1942 the Netherlands
Ambassador at Washington informed the Sec-
retary of State that the Egyptian Government
has notified to the Netherlands Government in
London its adherence to the International
Opium Convention signed at The Hague on
January 23, 1912.
MUTUAL GUARANTIES
Mutual-Aid Agreement with Poland
The text of an agreement between the Gov-
ernments of the United States and Poland,
signed July 1, 1942, on the principles applying
to mutual aid in the prosecution of the war,
appears in this Bulletin under the heading "The
War".
STRATEGIC MATERIALS
Agreement with Colombia
An announcement regarding the signature
of an agreement with Colombia under the terms
of which the Rubber Reserve Company will pur-
chase during the next five years all rubber pro-
duced in Colombia which is not required for
essential domestic needs there, appears in this
Bulletin under the heading "American Re-
publics".
Legislation
An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office
and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards,
commissions, and offices, for ttie fiscal year ending
June 30, 1943, and for other purposes. Approved
June 27, 1942. [H. R. 6430.] Public Law 630,
77th Cong. 34 pp.
Joint Resolution To accord privileges of free impor-
tation to members of the armed forces of other
United Nations, to enemy prisoners of war and
civilian internees and detainees, and for other
purposes. Approved June 27, 1942. [H.J. Res.
327.] Public Law 635, 77th Cong. 1 p.
Salaries — Department of State : Communication from
the President of the United States transmitting
a draft of a proposed provision pertaining to the
appropriation "Salaries, Department of State," ap-
pearing in the pending Department of S'tate appro-
priation bill for the fiscal year 1943. S. Doc. 235,
77th Cong. 2 pp.
598
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation
BiU, 1943:
Hearings before Subcommittee of the Committee ou
Appropriations, House of Representatives, 77th
Cong., 2d sess. Part 1. [Department of State,
pp. 98-108; Office of the Coordinator of Inter-
American Affairs, pp. 553-596.] 925 pp.
H. Kept. 2295, 77th Cong., on H. R. 7319. [Coordi-
nator of Inter-American Affairs, pp. 12-13; De-
partment of State, p. 35.] 37 pp.
Protection of the Name and Emblem of the Bed Cross:
Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
House of Representatives, 77th Cong., 2d sess., on
H.R. 6911, and documents relating to H.R. 6911,
a bill to implement article 28 of the convention
signed at Geneva on July 27, 1929 ... by making
it a criminal offense for any person to use the
emblem and name of the Red Cross for com-
mercial or other purposes. April 14, 22, 23, and
May 26 and 27, 1942. [Statements by Green H.
Hackworth, pp. 51-67, 108-109, 127->139; letter
from the Secretary of State to the Chairman of
the House Committee on Foreign Affairs May 23,
pp. 198-200; and miscellaneous documents in the
appendix.] 433 pp.
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JULY 11, 1942
Vol. VII, No. 159— Publication 1770
G
ontents
The War Page
Mutual-aid agreements with —
Greece:
Joint statement by the President and the King of
Greece 601
Signing of the agreement 601
Netherlands 604
Czechoslovakia 607
Norway 609
Appointment of representatives to consult with the
Free French in London 613
Building in War for Peace: Address by Assistant Secre-
tary Acheson . 614
Anniversary of the arrival of American troops in
Iceland: Address by Assistant Secretary Berle. . 618
Five years of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggres-
sion 619
American Republics
Distribution of oil to the other American republics . . . 620
Visit to the United States of the President-elect of
Colombia 621
Economic cooperation with Bolivia 621
Treaty Information
Restriction of war: Convention for the Amehoration of
the Condition of the Wounded and the Sick of
Armies in the Field, and Convention Relatmg to
the Treatment of Prisoners of War 622
[over]
•J. S. SUPERINTENDENT OF DOC'JHEf^
AUG 1 1942
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OJltentS-CONT^mVED
Treaty Information — Continuotl. Page
Finance: Stabilization Agreements 622
Labor: Convention Concerning ^Vnnual Holidays With
Pay for Seamen 624
Military missions: Agreement with Panama for the
Detail of a United States Army Oflicer As Adviser
to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama . . 624
Mutual guaranties: Mutual-aid agreements with
Czechoslovakia, Greece, the Netherlands, and
Norway 624
Cultural Relations
Visit to the United States of distinguished Argentines . 624
The Department
Appointment of officers 625
The Foreign Service
Personnel changes 625
General
Detail of United States employees to foreign govern-
ments 625
Publications 626
Regulations 626
Legislation 626
The War
MUTUAL-AID AGREEMENT WITH GREECE
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT AND THE KING OF GREECE
[Released to the press by the White House July 9]
At the close of the conference between the
President and tlie King of Greece at the Wliite
House on July 9 the following joint comrnvwrdgue
was issued :
"At the meetings between the President and
the King during His Majesty's visit to the
United States, a full discussion of the mutual
problems and interests of these two United
Nations has taken place. The Greek Prime
IVIinister, Mr. Tsouderos, has participated in
these discussions.
"We are in complete agreement on the simple
objective of j)rosecuting the war to a successful
conclusion, at the earliest possible moment, with
all the resources at the command of the two
nations.
"We are firm in our determination to win the
jDeace no less than the war, and we reassert our
conviction that a just and lasting peace, based
oil an honest application of the Declaration of
the United Nations of January 1, 1942, is the
basis on which the peace shall be won.
'"In consequence, the Prime Minister of
Greece and the Secretary of State will sign to-
morrow, on behalf of their Governments, an
agreement on the principles applying to mutual
aid in the prosecution of the war, by which the
American and Greek Governments pledge not
only their mutual resources to a common victory
but their collaboration in economic policies to
make possible a lasting peace."
King George and Mr. Tsouderos have been
forced, for reasons of state, to curtail their
visit to America and to return as early as possi-
ble to London.
SIGNING OF THE AGREEMENT
[Released to the press July 10]
An agreement between the Government of the
United States and the Government of Greece on
the principles applying to mutual aid in the
prosecution of the war was signed on July 10
by Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, and
Mr. Emmanuel J. Tsouderos, Prime Minister
and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece.
Greece becomes the seventh country to sign such
an agreement with the United States.
The provisions of the agreement are the same
in all substantial respects as those of the agree-
ments between this Government and the Gov-
ernments of the United Kingdom, China, the
Soviet Union, Belgium, Poland, and the Neth-
erlands. As in the case of the former agree-
ments, that with Greece was negotiated under
the provisions of the Lease-Lend Act of March
11, 1941, which provides for extending aid to any
country whose defense is determined by the
601
602
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
President to be vital to the defense of the United
States.
The United States and the other Governments
which sign such agreements pledge their mate-
rial as well as their spiritual resources to a com-
mon victory of the United Nations. All these
countries are signatories of the Declaration by
United Nations.
Text of the Agreement '
Whereas the Governments of the United
States of America and Greece declare that they
are engaged in a cooperative undertaking, to-
gether with every other nation or people of like
mind, to the end of laying the bases of a just
and enduring woi'ld peace securing order under
law to themselves and all nations;
And whereas the Governments of the United
States of America and Greece, as signatories
of the Declaration by United Nations of Jan-
uary 1, 1942, have subscribed to a common pro-
gram of purposes and principles embodied in
the Joint Declaration made on August 14, 1941
by the President of the United States of Amer-
ica and the Prime Minister of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
known as the Atlantic Charter;
And whereas the President of the United
States of America has determined, pursuant to
the Act of Congress of March 11, 1941, that the
defense of Greece against aggression is vital to
the defense of the United States of America;
And whereas the United States of America
has extended and is continuing to extend to
Greece aid in resisting aggression ;
And wliereas it is expedient that the final
determination of the terms and conditions upon
which the Government of Greece receives such
aid and of the benefits to be received by the
United States of America in return therefor
should be deferred until the extent of the defense
aid is known and until the progress of events
makes clearer the final terms and conditions and
' The text here printed conforms to the signed original.
benefits which will be in the mutual interests
of the United States of Aanerica and Greece
and will promote the establishment and main-
tenance of world peace;
And whereas the Governments of the United
States of America and Greece are mutually
desirous of concluding now a preliminary agree-
ment in regard to the provision of defense aid
and in regard to certain considerations which
shall be taken into account in determining
such terms and conditions and the making of
such an agreement has been in all respects duly
authorized, and all acts, conditions and formali-
ties which it may have been necessary to per-
form, fulfill or execute prior to the making of
such an agreement in conformity with the laws
either of the United States of America or of
Greece have been jjerformed, fulfilled or ex-
ecuted as required ;
The undersigned, being duly authorized by
their respective Governments for that purpose,
have agreed as follows :
Abticle I
The Government of the United States of
America will continue to supply the Govern-
ment of Greece with such defense articles, de-
fense services, and defense information as the
President of the United States of America shall
authorize to be transferred or provided.
Akticxe II
The Government of Greece will continue to
contribute to the defense of the United States
of America and the strengthening thereof and
will provide such articles, services, facilities
or information as it may be in a position to
supply.
Article III
The Government of Greece will not without
the consent of the President of the United States
of America transfer title to, or possession of,
any defense article or defense information
transferred to it under the Act of March 11,
1941 of the Congress of the United States of
JULY 11, 1942
603
America or permit the use thereof by anyone
not an officer, employee, or agent of the Govern-
ment of Greece.
Article IV
If, as a result of the transfer to the Govern-
ment of Greece of any defense article or defense
information, it becomes necessary for that Gov-
ernment to take any action or make any pay-
ment in order fully to protect any of the rights
of a citizen of the United States of America
who has patent rights in and to any such defense
article or information, the Government of
Greece will take such action or make such pay-
ment when requested to do so by the President
of the United States of America.
Article V
The Government of Greece will return to the
United States of America at the end of the
present emergency, as determined by the Presi-
dent of the United States of America, such de-
fense articles transferred under this Agreement
as shall not have been destroyed, lost or con-
sumed and as shall be determined by the Presi-
ident to be useful in the defense of the United
States of America or of the Western Hemi-
sphere or to be otherwise of use to the United
States of America.
Article VI
In the final determination of the benefits to
be provided to the United States of America by
the Government of Greece full cognizance shall
be taken of all property, services, information,
facilities, or other benefits or considerations
provided by the Government of Greece subse-
quent to March 11, 1941, and accepted or ac-
knowledged by the President on behalf of the
United States of America.
Article VII
In the final determination of the benefits to
be provided to the United States of America by
the Government of Greece in return for aid fur-
nished under the Act of Congress of March 11,
1941, the terms and conditions thereof shall be
such as not to burden commerce between the
two countries, but to promote mutually advan-
tageous economic relations between them and
the betterment of world-wide economic rela-
tions. To that end, thej' shall include provision
for agreed action by the United States of
America and Greece, open to participation by
all other countries of like mincl, directed to the
expansion, by appropriate international and
domestic measures, of j)roduction, employment,
and the exchange and consumption of goods,
which are the material foundations of the
liberty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimi-
nation of all forms of discriminatory treatment
in international commerce, and to the reduction
of tariffs and other trade barriers ; and, in gen-
eral, to the attainment of all the economic objec-
tives set forth in the Joint Declaration made
on August 14, 1941, by the President of the
United States of America and the Prime Min-
ister of the United Kingdom.
At an early convenient date, conversations
shall be begun between the two Governments
with a view to determining, in the light of gov-
erning economic conditions, the best means of
attaining the above-stated objectives by their
own agreed action and of seeking the agreed
action of other like-minded Governments.
Article VIII
This Agreement shall take effect as from this
day's date. It shall continue in force until a
date to be agreed upon by the two Governments.
Signed and sealed in duplicate at Washing-
ton this tenth day of July, 1942.
For the Government of the United States of
America :
CoEDELL Hull
Secretary of State of the
United States of America
For the Government of Greece :
Emmanuel J. Tsoudercs
Prime Minister and Minister for
Foreign Affairs of Greece
604
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
MUTUAL-AID AGREEMENT WITH THE NETHERLANDS
[Released to the press July S]
An agreement between the Government of the
United States and the Government of the King-
dom of the Netherhmds on the principles apply-
ing to mutual aid in the prosecution of the war
was signed on July 8 by Mr. Cordell Hull, Sec-
retary of State, and Dr. A. Loudon, the Nether-
lands Ambassador. Tlie Netherlands becomes
the sixth country to sign such an agreement with
the United States.
The provisions of the agreement are the same
in all substantial respects as those of the agree-
ments between this Government and the Gov-
ernments of the United Kingdom, China, the
Soviet Union. Belgium, and Poland. As in the
case of the former agreements, that with the
Netherlands Government was negotiated under
the provisions of the Lease-Lend Act of March
11, 1941, which provides for extending aid to
any country whose defense is determined by the
President to be vital to the defense of the United
States.
The United States and the other Govern-
ments which sign such agreements pledge their
material as well as their spiritual resources to a
common victory of the United Nations.
Tlie agreement with the Netherlands is ac-
coinf)anied by an exchange of notes confirming
the understanding of the two Governments that
it replaces and renders inoperative the lend-
lease agreement between the two Governments
signed on August 9, 1941 and that it does not
affect arrangements now being made for the
transfer of certain aircraft, munitions, military
property, and procurement contracts of the
Netherlands Government to various agencies of
the United States Government or the reimburse-
ments to be made to the Netherlands Govern-
ment in that connection.
The texts of the agreement ' and of the ex-
change of notes are given below.
Text of the Agreement '
Whereas the Governments of the United
States of America and the Kingdom of the Neth-
' The text here printed conforms to the signed original.
erlands declare that they are engaged in a co-
operative undertaking, together with every
other nation or people of like mind, to the end
of laying the bases of a just and enduring world
peace securing order under law to themselves
and all nations;
And whereas the Governments of the United
States of America and the Kingdom of the Neth-
erlands, as signatories of the Declaration by
United Nations of January 1, 1942, have sub-
scribed to a common program of purposes and
principles embodied in the Joint Declaration
made on August 14, 1941 by the President of the
United States of America and the Prime Min-
ister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland, known as the Atlantic J
Charter ; 1
And whereas the President of the United
States of America has determined, pursuant to
the Act of Congress of Marcli 11, 1941, that the
defense of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
against aggression is vital to the defense of the
United States of America;
And whereas the United States of America
has extended and is continuing to extend to the
Kingdom of the Netherlands aid in resisting
aggression ;
And whereas it is expedient that the final de-
termination of the terms and conditions upon
which the Government of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands receives such aid and of the bene-
fits to be received by the United States of Amer-
ica in return therefor should be deferred until
the extent of the defense aid is known and until
the progress of events makes clearer the final
terms and conditions and benefits which will be
in the mutual interests of the United States of
America and the Kingdom of the Netherlands
and will promote the establishment and main-
tenance of world peace ;
And whereas the Governments of the United
States of America and the Kingdom of the Neth-
erlands are mutually desirous of concluding now
a preliminary agreement in regard to the pro-
vision of defense aid and in regard to certain
considerations which shall be taken into account
in determining such terms and conditions and
JULY 11, 1942
605
tlie making of such an agreement has been in
all respects duly authorized, and all acts, con-
ditions and formalities which it may have been
necessarj' to perform, fulfill or execute prior to
the making of such an agreement in conformity
with the laws either of the United States of
America or of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
have been performed, fulfilled or executed as
required ;
The undersigned, being duly authorized by
their respective Governments for that purpose,
have agreed as follows :
Article I
The Government of the United States of
America will continue to supply the Govern-
ment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands with
such defense articles, defense services, and de-
fense information as the President of the United
States of America shall authorize to be trans-
ferred or provided.
Article II
The Government of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands will continue to contribute to the
defense of the United States of America and
the strengthening thereof and will provide such
articles, services, facilities or information as it
may be in a iJosition to supply.
Article III
The Government of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands will not without the consent of the
President of the United States of America
transfer title to, or possession of, any defense
article or defense information transferred to it
under the Act of March 11, 1941 of the Congi-ess
of the United States of America or permit the
use thereof by anyone not an officer, employee,
or agent of the Government of the Kingdom
of the Netherlands.
Article IV
If, as a result of the transfer to the Govern-
ment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of any
defense article or defense information, it be-
comes necessary for that Government to take
any action or make any payment in order fully
to protect any of the rights of a citizen of the
United States of America who has patent rights
in and to any such defense article or informa-
tion, the Government of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands will take such action or make such
payment when requested to do so by the Presi-
dent of the United States of America.
Article V
The Government of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands will return to the United States
of America at the end of the present emergency,
as determined by the President of the United
States of America, such defense articles trans-
ferred under this Agreement as shall not have
been destroyed, lost or consumed and as shall
be determined by the President to be useful in
the defense of the United States of America or
of the Western Hemisphere or to be otherwise of
use to the United States of America.
Article VI
In the final determination of the benefits to
be provided to the United States of America
by the Government of the Kingdom of the Neth-
erlands full cognizance shall be taken of all
property, services, information, facilities, or
other benefits or considerations provided by the
Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
subsequent to March 11, 1941, and accepted or
acknowledged by the President on behalf of the
United States of America.
Article VII
In the final determination of the benefits to
be provided to the United States of America by
the Government of the Kingdom of the Nether-
lands in return for aid furnished under the
Act of Congress of March 11, 1941, the terms
and conditions thereof shall be such as not to
burden commerce between the two countries, but
to promote mutually advantageous economic
relations between them and the betterment of
world-wide economic relations. To that end,
they shall include provision for agreed action
by the United States of America and the King-
dom of the Netherlands, open to participation
by all other countries of like mind, directed to
the expansion, by appropriate international and
domestic measures, of production, employment.
606
DEPARTMEXT OF STATE BXTLLETTN
and the exchange and consumption of goods,
which are the material foundations of the lib-
erty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimi-
nation of all forms of discriminatory treatment
in international commerce, and to the reduction
of tariffs and other trade barriers; and, in gen-
eral, to the attainment of all the economic ob-
jectives set forth in the Joint Declaration made
on August 14, 1941, by the President of the
United States of America and the Prime Min-
ister of the United Kingdom.
At an early convenient date, conversations
shall be begun between the two Governments
with a view to determining, in the light of gov-
erning economic conditions, the best means of
attaining the above-stated objectives by their
own agreed action and of seeking the agreed
action of other like-minded Governments.
Article VIII
This Agreement shall take effect as from
this day's date. It shall continue in force until
a date to be agreed uiaon by the two Govern-
ments.
Signed and sealed in duplicate at Washington
this eighth day of July, 1942.
For the Government of the United States of
America :
CORDELL Huii
Secretary of State of the
United States of America
For the Government of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands :
A. Loudon
ArribasHodor of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands at Washington
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Departmei^t of State,
Washington, July 8, 1942.
Excellency :
In connection with the signature on this date
of the Agreement between our two Governments
on the Princip)les Applying to Mutual Aid in the
Prosecution of the War Against Aggression, I
have the honor to confirm our understanding
that this Agreement replaces and renders in-
operative, as from today, the prior Agreement
between our two Governments on the same sub-
ject, dated August 9, 1941.
I have the honor also to confirm our under-
standing that the signature of this Agreement
does not affect in any way the arrangements
now being made through the Office of Lend-
Lease Administration for the transfer to various
agencies of the United States Government of
certain aircraft, munitions, military property
and procurement contracts of the Eoyal Nether-
lands Government in the United States, and for
the reimbursements to be made to the Eoyal
Netherlands Government in that connection.
Accept [etc.] Cobdell Hull
The Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Nether-
lands to the Secretary of State
Netherlands Embassy,
Washington, July 8, 1942.
Sir:
In connection with the signature on this date
of the Agreement between our two Govern-
ments on the Principles Applying to Mutual
Aid in the Prosecution of the War Against Ag-
gression, I have the honor to confirm our under-
standing that this Agreement replaces and ren-
ders inojierative, as from today, the prior
Agreement between our two Governments on
the same subject, dated August 9, 1941.
I have the honor also to confirm our under-
standing that the signature of this Agreement
does not affect in any way the arrangements
now being made through the Office of Lend-
Lease Administration for the transfer to various
agencies of the United States Government of
certain aircraft, munitions, military property
and procurement contracts of the Eoyal Nether-
lands Government in the United States, and for
the reimbursements to be made to the Eoyal
Netherlands Government in that connection.
Accept [etc.] A. Loudon
JULY 11, 1942
607
MUTUAL-AID AGREEMENT WITH CZECHOSLOVAKIA
[Released to the press July 11]
An agreement between the Government of the
United Stcates and the Provisional Government
of Czechoslovakia on the principles applying to
mutual aid in the prosecution of the war was
signed on July 11 by Mr. Cordell Hull, Secre-
tary of State, and Mr. V. S. Hurban, the
Czechoslovak Minister. Czechoslovakia be-
comes the eighth country to sign such an agree-
ment with the United States.
The provisions of the agreement are the same
in all substantial respects as those of the agree-
ments between this Government and the Gov-
ernments of the United Kingdom, China, the
Soviet Union, Belgium, Poland, the Nether-
lands, and Greece. As in the case of the former
agreements that with Czechoslovakia was ne-
gotiated under the provisions of the Lease-Lend
Act of March 11, 1941, which provides for ex-
tending aid to any country whose defense is
determined by the President to be vital to the
defense of the United States.
The United States and the other Governments
which sign such agreements pledge their ma-
terial as well as their spiritual resources to a
common victory of the United Nations. All
these countries are signatories of the Declara-
tion by United Nations.
Text of the Agreement '
Whereas the Government of the United
States of America and the Provisional Govern-
ment of Czechoslovakia declare that they are
engaged in a cooperative undertaking, together
with every other nation or people of like mind,
to the end of laying the bases of a just and en-
during world peace securing order under law
to themselves and all nations ;
And whereas the Government of the United
States of America and the Provisional Govern-
ment of Czechoslovakia, as signatories of the
' The text here printed conforms to the signed original.
Declaration by United Nations of January 1,
1942, have subscribed to a common program of
purposes and principles embodied in the Joint
Declaration made on August 14, 1941 by the
President of the United States of America and
the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, known as
the Atlantic Charter ;
And whereas the President of the United
States of America has determined, pursuant to
the Act of Congress of March 11, 1941, that the
defense of Czechoslovakia against aggression is
vital to the defense of the United States of
America ;
And whereas the United States of America
has extended and is continuing to extend to
the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia
aid in resisting aggression ;
And whereas it is expedient that the final de-
termination of the terms and conditions upon
which the Provisional Government of Czecho-
slovakia receives such aid and of the benefits
to be received by the United States of America
in return therefor should be deferred until the
extent of the defense aid is known and until the
progress of events makes clearer the final terms
and conditions and benefits which will be in the
mutual interests of the United States of Amer-
ica and Czechoslovakia and will promote the
establishment and maintenance of world peace ;
And whereas the Government of the United
States of America and the Provisional Govern-
ment of Czechoslovakia are mutually desirous
of concluding now a preliminary agreement in
regard to the provision of defense aid and in
regard to certain considerations which shall be
taken into account in determining such terms
and conditions and the making of such an agree-
ment has been in all respects duly authorized,
and all acts, conditions and formalities which
it may have been necessary to perform, fulfil] or
execute prior to the making of such an agree-
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meiit in conformity with the laws either of the
United States of America or of Czechoslovakia
have been performed, fulfilled or executed as
required ;
The undersigned, being duly authorized by
their respective Governments for that purpose,
have agreed as follows :
Article I
The Government of the United States of
America will continue to supply the Provisional
Government of Czechoslovakia with such de-
fense articles, defense services, and defense in-
formation as the President of the United States
of America shall authorize to be transferred or
provided.
Akticle II
The Provisional Government of Czechoslo-
vakia will continue to contribute to the defense
of the United States of America and the
strengthening thereof and will provide such
articles, services, facilities or information as it
may be in a position to supply.
Article III
The Provisional Government of Czechoslo-
vakia will not without the consent of the Presi-
dent of the United States of America transfer
title to, or possession of, any defense article or
defense information transferred to it under the
Act of March 11, 1941 of the Congress of the
United States of America or permit the use
thereof by anyone not an officer, employee, or
agent of the Provisional Government of Czecho-
slovakia.
Article IV
If, as a result of the transfer to the Pro-
visional Government of Czechoslovakia of any
defense article or defense information, it be-
comes necessary for that Government to take
any action or make any payment in order fully
to protect any of the rights of a citizen of the
United States of America who has patent rights
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
in and to any such defense article or informa-
tion, the Provisional Government of Czecho-
slovakia will take such action or make such
payment when requested to do so by the Presi-
dent of the United States of America.
Article V
The Provisional Government of Czechoslo-
vakia will return to the United States of Amer-
ica at the end of the present emergency, as de-
termined by the President of the United States
of America, such defense articles transferred
under this Agreement as shall not have been
destroyed, lost or consumed and as shall be de-
termined by the President to be useful in the
defense of the United States of America or of
the Western Hemisphere or to be otherwise of
use to the United States of America.
Article VI
In the final determination of the benefits to
be provided to the United States of America by
the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia
full cognizance shall be taken of all property,
services, information, facilities, or other bene-
fits or considerations provided by the Provi-
sional Government of Czechoslovakia subse-
quent to March 11, 1941, and accepted or ac-
knowledged by the President on behalf of the
United States of America.
Article VII
In the final determination of the benefits to be
provided to the United States of America by
the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia
in return for aid furnished under the Act of
Congress of March 11, 1941, the terms and con-
ditions thereof shall be such as not to burden
commerce between the two countries, but to
promote mutually advantageous economic rela-
tions between them and the betterment of
world-wide economic relations. To that end,
they shall include provision for agreed action
bv the United States of America and the Pro-
JtFLY 11, 1942
609
visional Government of Czechoslovakia, open
to participation by all other countries of like
mind, directed to the expansion, by appropriate
international and domestic measures, of produc-
tion, employment, and the exchange and con-
sumption of goods, which are the material
foundations of the liberty and welfare of all
peoples; to the elimination of all fonns of dis-
criminatory treatment in international com-
merce, and to the reduction of tariti's and other
trade barriers; and, in general, to the attain-
ment of all the economic objectives set forth in
the Joint Declaration made on August 14, 1911,
by the President of the United States of Amer-
ica and the Prime Minister of the United King-
dom.
At an early convenient date, conversations
shall be begun between the two Governments
with a view to determining, in the light of gov-
erning economic conditions, the best means of
attaining the above-stated objectives by their
own agreed action and of seeking the agreed
action of other like-minded Governments.
Article VIII
This Agreement shall take effect as from this
day's date. It shall continue in force until a
date to be agreed upon by the two Governments.
Signed and sealed in duplicate at Washing-
ton this eleventh day of July 1942.
For the Government of the United States of
America :
CoRDELL Hull
Secretary of State of the
United States of America
For the Provisional Government of Czecho-
slovakia :
v. S. HUDBAN
Minister of C sechosloval:ia
at W ashington
MUTUAL-AID AGREEMENT WITH NORWAY
(Released to the press July 11]
An agreement between the Government of the
United States and the Royal Norwegian Gov-
ernment on the principles- applying to mutual
aid in the prosecution of the war was signed on
July 11 by Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State,
and Mr. Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstiernc,
the Ambassador of Norway. Norway becomes
the ninth country to sign such an agreement
with the United States.
The provisions of the agreement are the same
in all substantial respects as those of the agree-
ments between tliis Government and the Gov-
ernments of the United Kingdom, China, the
Soviet Union, Belgium, Poland, the Nether-
lands, Greece, and Czechoslovakia. As in the
case of the former agreements, that with Nor-
way was negotiated under the j^rovisions of the
Lease-Lend Act of March 11, 1941, which pro-
vides for extending aid to any country whose
defense is determined by the President to be
vital to the defense of the United States.
The United States and the other Governments
which sign such agreements pledge their ma-
terial as well as their spiritual resources to a
common victory of the United Nations. All
these countries are signatories of the Declara-
tion by United Nations.
The agreement with Norway is accompanied
by an exchange of notes concerning the appli-
cation of certain provisions of tlie convention in
relation to the operation of the Norwegian mer-
chant fleet for the benefit of the United Nations
in the common war effort and consultations at
the end of the present emergency.
610
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
The tests of the agreement ' and of the ex-
change of notes are given below.
Text of the Agreement
Wliereas the Government of the United States
of America and the Eoyal Norwegian Govern-
ment declare that they are engaged in a coopera-
tive undertaking, together with every other
nation or people of like mind, to the end of lay-
ing the bases of a just and enduring world peace
securing order under law to themselves and
all nations ;
And whereas the Government of the United
States of America and the Eoyal Norwegian
Government, as signatories of the Declaration
by United Nations of January 1, 1942, have sub-
scribed to a common program of purposes and
principles embodied in the Joint Declaration
made on August 14, 1941 by the President of
the United States of America and the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Brit-
ain and Northern Ireland, known as the Atlan-
tic Charter ;
And whereas the President of the United
States of America has determined, pursuant to
the Act of Congress of ISIarch 11, 1941, that the
defense of the Kingdom of Norway against ag-
gression is vital to the defense of the United
States of America ;
And whereas the United States of America
has extended and is continuing to extend to the
Kingdom of Norway aid in resisting aggres-
sion ;
Ajid whereas it is expedient that the final
determination of the terms and conditions upon
which the Royal Norwegian Government re-
ceives such aid and of the benefits to be received
by the United States of America in return
therefor should be deferred until the extent of
the defense aid is known and until the progress
of events makes clearer the final terms and con-
ditions and benefits which will be in the mutual
interests of the United States of America and
the Kingdom of Norway and will promote the
establishment and maintenance of world peace;
' The text here printed conforms to the signed original.
And whereas the Govermnent of the United
States of America and the Royal Norwegian
Govermnent are mutually desirous of conclud-
ing now a preliminary agreement in regard to
the provision of defense aid and in regard to
certain considerations which shall be taken into
account in determining such terms and condi-
tions and the making of such an agreement has
been in all respects duly authorized, and all
acts, conditions and formalities which it may
have been necessary to perform, fulfill or exe-
cute prior to the making of such an agreement ■
in conformity with the laws either of the United ■
States of America or of the Kingdom of Nor-
way have been performed, fulfilled or executed
as required ;
The undersigned, being duly authorized by
their respective Governments for that purpose,
have agreed as follows:
Ajjticxje I
The Government of the United States of
Ajnerica will continue to supply the Royal Nor-
wegian Government with such defense articles,
defense services, and defense information as the
President of the United States of America
shall authorize to be transferred or provided.
Articxe II
The Roj-al Norwegian Government will con-
tinue to contribute to the defense of the United
States of America and the strengthening there-
of and will provide such articles, services, fa-
cilities or information as it may be in a position
to supply.
Aeticle III
The Royal Norwegian Government will not
without the consent of the President of the
United States of America transfer title to, or
possession of, any defense article or defense in-
formation transferred to it under the Act of
March 11, 1941 of the Congress of the United
States of America or permit the use thereof
by anyone not an officer, employee, or agent of
the Roval Norwegian Government.
JULY 11, 1942
611
Article IV
If, as a result of the transfer to the Royal
Norwegian Government of any defense article
or defense information, it becomes necessary for
that Government to take any action or make any
payment in order fully to protect any of the
rights of a citizen of the United States of Amer-
ica who has patent rights in and to any such
defense article or information, the Royal Nor-
wegian Government will take such action or
make such pajmient when requested to do so by
the President of the United States of America.
Article V
The Royal Norwegian Government will re-
turn to the United States of America at the
end of the present emergency, as determined by
the President of the United States of America,
such defense articles transferred under this
Agreement as shall not have been destroyed, lost
or consumed and as shall be determined by the
President to be useful in the defense of the
United States of America or of the Western
Hemisphere or to be otherwise of use to the
United States of America.
Article VI
In the final determination of the benefits to
be provided to the United States of America by
the Royal Norwegian Government full cogni-
zance shall be taken of all property, services,
information, facilities, or other benefits or con-
siderations provided by the Royal Norwegian
Government subsequent to March 11, 1941, and
accepted or acknowledged by the President on
behalf of the United States of America.
Article Vll
In the final determination of the benefits to
lie provided to the United States of America
by the Royal Norwegian Government in return
for aid furnished under the Act of Congress of
March 11, 1941, the terms and conditions thereof
shall be such as not to burden commerce between
the two countries, but to promote mutually ad-
vantageous economic relations between them
and the betterment of world-wide economic re-
lations. To that end, they shall include pro-
vision for agreed action by the United States
of America and the Kingdom of Norway, open
to participation by all other countries of like
mind, directed to the expansion, by appropriate
international and domestic measures, of produc-
tion, employment, and the exchange and con-
sumption of goods, which are the material
foundations of the liberty and welfare of all
peoples; to the elimination of all forms of dis-
criminatory treatment in international com-
merce, and to the reduction of tariffs and other
trade barriers; and, in general, to the attain-
ment of all the economic objectives set forth in
the Joint Declaration made on August 14, 1941,
by the President of the United States of Amer-
ica and the Prime Minister of the United King-
dom.
At an early convenient date, conversations
shall be begun between the two Governments
with a view to determining, in the light of gov-
erning economic conditions, the best means of
attaining the above-stated objectives by their
own agreed action and of seeking the agreed
action of other like-minded Governments.
Article VIII
This Agreement shall take effect as from this
day's date. It shall continue in force until a
date to be agreed upon by the two Governments.
Signed and sealed in duplicate at Washing-
ton this eleventh day of July 1942.
For the Government of the United States of
America :
CoRDELL Hull
Secretary of State of the
United States of America
For the Roj'al Norwegian Government ;
W. MuNTHE Morgenstierne
Amhassador of Norway
at Washington
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
The Ambassador of Norivay to the Secretary of
State
Norwegian Embassy,
Washington, July 11, 191(2.
Excellency :
I have the honor to refer to the conversations
betvi'een representatives of the Royal Norwe-
gian Government and the Government of the
United States of America in connection with
the negotiation of the Agreement on the Prin-
ciples Applying to Mutual Aid in the Prosecu-
tion of the War Against Aggression signed this
day.
During the course of these conversations the
Norwegian representatives have referred to the
fact that the Royal Norwegian Government has
been driven from its country by Hitler, whose
forces are in occupation of the country and are
despoiling its resources; they have pointed out
that the principal national asset remaining at
the disposal of their Government is the Nor-
wegian Merchant Fleet, which that Government
is operating for the benefit of the United Na-
tions in the common war effort; that for the
protection and maintenance of that Fleet, it is
necessary to install armaments and other pro-
tective devices and equipment upon its vessels,
and to repair damage and replace losses thereto
occasioned by acts of war and operation under
war conditions; that it will also be necessary
for the Royal Norwegian Government, when
the invader has been driven from its territory,
to ensure the maintenance of reestablished
peaceful conditions, and that, for this reason,
the need of the Royal Norwegian Government
for arms and equipment will not necessarily
cease with the general cessation of hostilities.
The conversations referred to have disclosed
a mutual understanding on the part of the Royal
Norwegian Government and the Government
of the United States of America with respect
to the application of certain provisions of the
Agreement signed this day, as follows:
1. Armaments and other protective devices
and equipment installed upon Norwegian ships
subsequent to December 7, 1941 shall, under
the provisions of the Agreement signed this day,
remain the property of the Government of the
United States of America. Tlie installation of
such armaments, protective devices, and other
equipment shall be at the expense and for the
account of the Government of the United States
of America, which shall bear any risk of loss,
or damage, and shall not be regarded as giv-
ing rise to any financial obligation on the part
of the Royal Norwegian Government. Such
armaments may if found mutually desirable be
manned by Amei'ican gun ci'ews.
2. The repair under the Lend-Lease Act, sub-
sequent to December 7, 1941, of damage to Nor-
wegian ships which is caused by acts of war or
by operation under war conditions, as well as
repair and replacement necessitated by opera-
tion under war conditions shall be made at the
expense and for the account of the Government
of the United States of America, and shall not
be regarded as giving rise to any financial obli-
gation on the part of the Royal Norwegian Gov-
ernment. The repair of damage not caused by
acts of war or not necessitated by operation un-
der war conditions shall be made at the ex-
pense and for the account of the Royal Nor-
wegian Government or the appropriate agency
designated by it.
3. The Government of the United States of
America recognizes that the Norwegian Mer-
chant Fleet not only constitutes an important
contribution to the war effort of the United
Nations but is likewise one of the principal
national assets of the Royal Norwegian Govern-
ment and, accordingly, that the latter Govern-
ment which is operating its Fleet for the
benefit of the United Nations in the common
war effort, should be assisted in replacing ships
lost in the service of the United Nations. Ac-
cordingly, the Government of the United States
of America will continue to review the situa-
tion with the Royal Norwegian Government
with a view to assisting that Govenunent in a
l^rogram of replacement as soon as conditions
permit. The two Governments agree that nego-
tiations to this end should be commenced with-
JULY 11, 1942
613
out delay and should be pressed to a conclusion
as promptly as possible.
4. In the application of Article V of the
Agreement relating to the return at the end of
the present emergency of articles transferred
under the Agreement, the Government of the
United States of America will take into account
the circumstance that when the invader has been
driven from Norway it will be necessary for the
Roj-al Norwegian Government to ensure the
maintenance of reestablished peaceful condi-
tions. Accordingly, the Government of the
United States of America and the Royal Nor-
wegian Government will consider, and will con-
sult with each other with respect to the possible
retention by the latter of such military equip-
ment as may be considered necessary for those
purposes.
Accept [etc.] W. Munthe Morgenstieene
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador of
Norway
Department of State,
Washington, July 11, 19^2.
ExCEULENOT :
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your note of today's date concerning the con-
versations between representatives of the Gov-
ernment of the United States of America and
the Royal Norwegian Government in connec-
tion with the negotiation of the Agi-eement on
the Principles Applying to Mutual Aid in the
Prosecution of the War Against Aggression
signed this day, and to confirm the statement
contained therein of the understanding of the
two Governments with respect to the applica-
tion of certain provisions of the Agreement.
Accept [etc.] Cordell Huu^
APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES TO CONSULT WITH THE
FREE FRENCH IN LONDON
[Released to the press July 9]
The President of the United States, in a letter
to the Lend-Lease Administration dated No-
vember 11, 1941, stated that the defense of those
French territories under the control of Free
French forces is vital to the defense of the
United States. In the spirit of the President's
letter, and consistent with the policy of the
United States Government in aiding all peoples
who are resisting Axis aggression to maintain
and uphold their own liberty, the Government
of the United States and the Free French Na-
tional Committee in London have closely main-
tained cooperation in those areas where such co-
operation would further the war objectives.
To make this cooperation more effective in the
prosecution of the war. Admiral Harold R.
Stark and Brigadier General Charles L. Bolte
have been designated as this Government's
representatives to consult with the French Na-
tional Committee in London on all matters re-
lating to the conduct of the war. A memoran-
dum on the subject, the text of which is printed
below, has been handed to General de Gaulle.
In this connection the following message has
been received from the French National Com-
mittee in London :
"General de Gaulle has read the memorandum
with pleasure. He is most gratified by its terms
and he warmly welcomes the decision of the
United States Government to appoint Admiral
Stark and General Bolte as representatives of
the United States Government to consult with
the National Committee."
Memorandum
The Government of the United States is sub-
ordinating all other questions to the one su-
preme purpose of achieving military success in
the war and carrying it forward to a successful
conclusion. The French National Committee
has the same objective and is undertaking active
military measures for the preservation of
French territory for the French people.
614
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
The Government of the United States recog-
nizes the contribution of General de Gaulle and
the work of the French National Committee in
keeping alive the spirit of French traditions and
institutions and believes that the military aims
necessary for an effective prosecution of the
war, and hence the realization of our combined
aims, are best advanced by lending all possible
military assistance and support to the French
National Committee as a symbol of French
resistance in general against the Axis powers.
The Government of the United States whole-
heartedly agrees with the view of the British
Government, which is also known to be the view
of the French National Committee, that the
destiny and political organization of France
must, in the last analysis, be determined by free
expression of the French people under condi-
tions giving them freedom to express their de-
sires unswayed by any form of coercion.
In pursuing the common war objective, the
Government of the United States will continue
to deal with the local Free French officials in
their respective territories where they are in
effective control. Realizing the need for coor-
dinating their common efforts the Government
of the United States perceives every advantage
in centralizing the discussion of those matters
relating to the prosecution of the war with the
French National Committee in London. An
essential part of the policy of the Government
of the United States for war collaboration is
assistance to the military and naval forces of
Free France, which is being extended under the
terms of the President's statement of Novem-
ber 11, 1941, that the defense of those French
territories under the control of Free French
forces is ^ntal to the defense of the United J
States. 1
In harmony with the foregoing observations
the Government of the United States is pre-
pared to appoint representatives in London for
purposes of consultation.
Defaetment of State,
Washington.
[Released to the press July 10]
The translation of a telegram which has been
received by the Secretary of State from Gen-
eral Charles de Gaulle follows :
"London. July 10, 19!^.
"It is with great satisfaction that the French
National Committee welcomes in London the
distinguished representatives of the Govern-
ment of the United States. I thank you for the
])ersonal part you have taken in this decision.
The confident collaboration which the France
which has remained faithful to the Allies and
to the great American democracy will thus
establish will certainly contribute in an effec-
tive manner to the final victory of the United
Nations.
C. DE Gaulle"
BUILDING IN WAR FOR PEACE
ADDRESS BY ASSISTANT SECRETARY ACHESON '
[Released to the press July 7]
In a very .special sense it is a privilege to be
here tonight. It is a privilege because in few
places on this earth can free men and women
meet to take stock of their position, to formulate
and express together their opinions, to play
their part in shaping their own course. Mr.
'Delivered before the Institute of Public Affairs at
the University of Virginia, July 6, 1942.
Churchill referred to the British Parliament as
the grand inquest of the nation. We have our
own grand inquest in Washington as every Gov-
ernment official is keenly aware. But it has been
a tradition of the American people from the
days of the New England town meeting to con-
duct their own inquests in every part of the
country. At no time in our history has it been
more essential that you should meet in this uni-
versity, created to provide the indispensable
JULY 11, 1942
615
foundation of a free people, and take counsel
together. The country will need all your
thought and all your resolution.
A witness before an inquest appears not to
expound but to give testimony. It is fortunate
that this is so, because neither by training nor
position is this witness qualified to expound the
strategies of the war or of the peace to follow.
But an administrative officer knows, because he
must participate in some of them, that hundreds
of decisions and judgments are and must be
made in the coui-se of every day's work. He
knows that the cumulative effect of these de-
cisions will determine in large measure the scope
within which future decisions may be made and
tuture policies determined. He kr^ows the effect
of current opinion upon current decisions.
AVhether we are conscious of it or not, all of us,
whether we are public servants or private cit-
izens, are every day formulating the aims and
di'awing the outlines of the future.
I wish to speak tonight of the decisions which
have been and must be made upon one of the
most fundamental factors in the war and the
peace: our program for supplying the armies
of our allies on every front to the full extent of
our power. Today no one doubts that even the
most elementary considerations of self-preserva-
tion demand that this be done. No one doubts
that every front is our front, that a weapon used
against the enemy by any ally is well used, and
that it is our great good fortune to have fight-
ing with us the skilled hands and stout hearts
to use them. No one believes today that it is
an act of favor to furnish weapons to those who
are fighting so gallantly beside our own men.
That decision is made, and there is now no
dissent.
Indispensable as that aid is to our allies, we
must not exaggerate its extent in relation to our
own resources and our own war effort or in re-
lation to the effort of our allies. Only by see-
ing it in true perspective can we reach wise and
just judgments on the questions it presents. In
his report of June 11, 1942 to the Congress, the
President stated that lend-lease aid for the
preceding 15 months had amounted to 41/2 bil-
lion dollars and that it was currently being pro-
vided at a rate approximately equal to 8 billion
dollars a year. This year lend-lease aid will
lejjresent about 6 percent of our present national
income and very roughly about 13 percent of
what we are spending to fight the war. What
we can send is limited by the ships available.
There is no one of us who does not wish that it
could be more. There is no one of us who does
not understand the essential strategic function
of this flow of weapons and materials and food
to the fighting fronts and the people behind
them.
But there could be no greater mistake than
to believe that our supplies are equipping the
armies of the United Nations. Essential as
they are, they form a small part of the vast
supplies which these armies are using. With
amazing skill, determination, and sacrifice our
allies have converted every available resource
of material and manpower to the purposes of
war. We have together created a common pool
of material with which the common war is
being waged. Our contribution is indispensa-
ble, but it is a part of a far larger whole.
As our own forces take a greater part upon
the fronts, the resources of this pool are made
available to them. Precious shipping is saved
by supplying them from the nearest sources,
and in steadily increasing volume our allies are
doing this with food and weapons. Our troops
in Australia and Great Britain are drawing to
the fullest extent upon the supplies available
in those areas and so releasing shipping for
materials which cannot be supplied except from
overseas.
This energetic and extensive system of mutual
aid is more than a way of economizing in the
use of ships. It is a symbol of the willing coop-
eration of the United Nations. Each is now
giving the last full measure of its strength and
resources in a common and desperate war. Our
thoughts about the terms on which war aid is
given and received should be formulated with
this in mind. They must be carried out with
full appreciation of the contribution of each
nation in relation to its own capacity and to
the contribution of others.
The basic principles governing these terms
have been declared in the agreements entered
into with the Governments of Great Britain, the
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Soviet Union, China, Belgium, and Poland and
under discussion with other governments. They
express the creative statesmanship with which
the Lend-Lease Act was conceived. They say
both what the final settlement shall not be and
also, in broad outline, what it shall be. It shall
not be a settlement which will burden commerce
between the countries. We have experienced
such settlements before and know the full train
of evils and misery which they bring. But it
shall be a settlement — to use the words of the
agreements themselves — "to promote mutually
advantageous economic relations between them
[the countries agreeing] and the betterment of
world-wide economic relations." "To that end",
the formal language of the agreements contin-
ues, the final settlement "shall include pro-
vision for agreed action . . . open to partici-
pation by all other countries of like mind,
directed to the expansion, by appropriate inter-
national and domestic measures, of production,
employment, and the exchange and consump-
tion of goods, which are the material founda-
tions of the liberty and welfare of all peoples;
to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory
treatment in international commerce, and to
the reduction of tariffs and other trade bar-
riers ;" and, in general, to the attaimiient of the
objectives declared in the Atlantic Charter.
These are the principles upon which aid is
given and received. The President has stated
the heart of the matter in his last report to the
Congress. He said :
"By this provision we have affirmatively de-
clared our intention to avoid the political and
economic mistakes of international debt experi-
ence during the twenties.
"A lend-lease settlement which fulfills this
principle will be sound from the economic point
of view. But it will have a greater merit. It
will represent the only fair way to distribute
the financial costs of war among the United
Nations.
"The real costs of the war cannot be measured,
nor compared, nor paid for in money. They
must and are being met in blood and toil. But
the financial costs of the war can and should be
met in a way which will serve the needs of last-
ing peace and mutual economic well-being.
"All the United Nations are seeking maxi-
mum conversion to war production, in the light
of their special resources. If each country de-
^•otes roughly the same fraction of its national
production to the war, then the financial burden
of war is distributed equally among the United
Nations in accordance with their ability to pay.
And although the nations richest in resources
are able to make larger contributions, the claim
of war against each is i-elutively the same.
Such a distribution of the financial costs of war
means that no nation will grow rich from the
war effort of its allies. The money costs of
the war will fall according to the rule of
equality in sacrifice, as in effort."
Would any of you have the settlement other-
wise? If so, this is the time to search your
hearts and minds and speak. What do you
wish to ask in return for the aid you give?
That aid will probably be greater in total
amount than the aid we shall receive, because our
resources are greater, because the drain upon
them has been less.
Do you wish an accounting of benefits given
and received on the theory that they represent
mutual debts, to be computed in dollars, and set
off against each other to measure a balance owed
in money ? Do you wish to set on one side the
value of a tank, its guns and ammunition and on
(he other an appraisal of those who died in it
under a desert sun? What is the equation be-
tween the planes sent to Russia and those figures
in the snow before Leningrad and Moscow?
We know the value of everything which has
gone to China. Are we to value those years in
wliich the Chinese held the eastern front alone?
I do not think that any of us want this account-
ing. I doubt whether we care even to think
about it very much.
What is it, then, that we do want? We must
know this before we can ask. Do we want
money? More gold buried at Fort Knox?
And how is it to be provided? Those nations
which have been quickly defeated face the future
with their foreign assets virtually intact.
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Those which have fought on and made the vic-
1 ory possible have bled themselves white in the
process, selling what they had for the means
to continue the fight. Would anyone propose
(hat we should ask in addition an impossible
mortgage upon their future ? Such a proposal
would not be a strategy of either war or peace.
No, we do not want money, because of all settle-
ments we know that it is the most impossible
and the most destructive.
Do we want the articles we sent replaced ? So
long as the need exists, this broadly is the func-
tion of lend-lease from our allies to us. But
when the need ends do we wish to require the
continuation of armament production? Or if
we require some arms do we wish to rely upon
others for them? This is the very opposite of
American policy in the past which has led the
fight for the reduction of armaments.
Do we want goods? In the past we have
fought any such suggestion with the fury of an
untamed broncho. We shall have to learn bet-
ter. But the problem will be to take goods in
exchange for what we must continue to send if
our allies — and our enemies — ma}' rebuild their
lives. We must buy in order that they may buy
from us. Our present aid cannot be repaid in
goods. To attemjDt it would destroy us all.
What is it, then, that we do want ? I believe
that it is what has been provided for in the
agreements already made. If you ask your-
selves and your neighbors what it is that you
want, the answer will not be money, or to get
back the guns you have sent abroad, or to get
goods except in the course of trade. The an-
swer will be that you want a chance to live fully
and in peace. You want a world in which some
half-mad man and his bigoted crew on the other
side of the earth will not bring down your lives
and your houses about your ears once every
quarter century. You want opi^ortunity, a job
in which you can use your powers, a job which
may not end any Saturday, one that will pro-
vide the material and spiritual means for a life
which is not mere existence. You want a sys-
tem where the inevitable hazards of life do not
fall on those least able to bear them, where
education and a chance to use it are open to
talent.
The agreements open the way — and about the
only way — in which these wants of every man
and woman in every country can be more than
wishes. They do not lay down a blueprint for
the future. No man can do that now. They
do not promise Utopia. But they chart the
fundamental course in the field of economic pol-
icy which, if faithfully followed and supported
by political organization to maintain peace, can-
not fail to take us farther along the road than
in recent years it has seemed possible to hope.
They provide first that the steps to be agreed
upon between us and our allies shall be open to
participation by all other countries of like mind.
There are to be no exclusive arrangements, no
excluded peoples among those who wish to work
with us to the common goal. This is the prin-
ciple of the Atlantic Charter embodied in the
agreements : that there shall be equal access to
the trade of the world and to its raw materials
for all nations large and small, victors or van-
quished. At the base of the whole settlement
is to be fairness and equality, the rejection of
special privileges and vindictive exclusions.
The second principle calls for united action
by all nations, correlating for this purpose in-
ternational and domestic measures to expand
production, employment, and the exchange and
consumption of goods. No one, of course, can
doubt that the opportunity for full and secure
lives which the peoples of all countries de-
mand— and rightly demand, and will insist upon
having — is only possible through increased pro-
duction, employment, and the movement and
consumption of goods. But one can well doubt
the possibility of achieving these goals unless
there is unity of effort and unity in the timing
and direction of the efforts of all nations. Too
often in the past action in one country has been
frustrated because at the same moment others
have been moving in the opposite direction or
because a powerful country has been moving in
one direction in its international policy and in
the opposite direction in its domestic policy.
The second fundamental principle of the agree-
ments is for common efforts on all fronts at the
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same time to expand production, employment,
and consumption.
The tliird principle is the elimination of dis-
criminatory treatment in international com-
merce and the reduction of tariffs and other
trade barriers. It is plain to every one of you
that at the end of this war there will be a need
such as we have never known to move goods be-
tween nations — to feed and clothe and house
millions whose consumption has for years been
below minimum requirements, to restore devas-
tation, to build and rebuild all the means of pro-
duction, and, in the years beyond, to move that
far greater volume of goods required by the
standards we are determined to achieve. It is
plain, also, that any such movement is utterly
impossible if the nations or any important
group of them continue to put impediments in
the way, attempt to corner markets for them-
selves, or resort to devices of any sort to check
the flow of goods and back it up upon its sources.
Throughout his whole public life Secretary
Hull has striven tirelessly to make our own and
all other peoples see the folly and the tragic end
of such practices. Even when -the shadow of
war was lengthening over the world, he made
desperate efforts to Ineak the network of restric-
tions which were choking the production and
the movement of goods. But peoples continued
to believe that they could solve a world problem
in isolation. The agreements declare as a basic
principle that this cannot be done and will not
again be attempted. They lay down as the
course for agreed action that along which Mr.
Hull has so steadfastly pointed the way.
These are decisions which have been made in
the course of war. I submit to you that they
have been well and wisely made, that they bear
within them the promise of a peace which shall
dawn with hope. It will be a dawn long
awaited by millions from whom hope will have
been the only sacrifice not asked and freely
given. But the dawn will come. Its promise is
in your hands, in the hands of your fellow citi-
zens, in the hands and thoughts and will of the
people everywhere. Yours is the power and
yours the responsibility — not at some future
time, not in plans for the world after the war,
but in what you think and do and want now.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF
AMERICAN TROOPS IN ICELAND
ADDRESS BY ASSISTANT SECRETARY BERLE '
[ Released to the press July 7 ]
A year ago today, at the invitation of your
Government and by arrangement between the
President of the United States and the Icelandic
Prime ]\Iinister, American soldiers set foot on
Icelandic soil. _
On this, the anniversary of that day, the De- ■
mocracy of the United States salutes Iceland,
the oldest democracy in the world, and the pat-
tern of all the democracies now fighting to de-
fend freedom and free government throughout «
the world. f
When the United States and Iceland made
their agreement, the method and spii'it of it was
new in history. We were agreed that free in-
stitutions were the most precious lieritage of
both countries. We were agreed that a brutal
attack on freedom had been made by the Axis
powers and that defense against this barbaric
wave was of vital interest to Icelanders and to
Americans. Both of us hoped that this defense
could be effected without war; but both of us
knew that unless we were ready any of us might
suffer the fate which has been inflicted on the
men, the women, and even the children of Nor-
way. We knew that if we were undefended
every man's life, every woman's safety, every
child's hope of the future was in danger.
We knew, too, that Iceland lay squarely
across the line of march of the Axis invaders.
They had boasted that in good time they would
sweep across the north, taking Iceland and
Greenland, seizing Canada and our Canadian
friends, and dealing at long last with the United
States. Plainly it was our common duty not to
wait until the bombs and tlie raiders were
sweeping across the Norwegian sea. The de-
fense must be prepared before the attack.
You remember that a few months later the
attack we had foreseen actually came. So far
as the United States was concerned, it came from
tlie Nazis' evil partner in the east, Japan. At
once the United States came into action.
' Broadcast over Station WBOS, Boston, Mass., July
7, 1942.
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America is like Iceland in many respects.
We are a peace-loving country ; and we prefer
the life of peace to the life of arms. Like Ice-
land, we have always felt that the true way of
the world must be the way of reason and com-
mon understanding. Our enemies misjudged
this. They seem to have thought that because
we do not thirst for war and conquest, that
therefore we would tamely submit to seeing our
neighbors and friends crushed into bloody sub-
mission, or that we should be unable to swing
into action the full strength of America's
power.
Our enemies know better now. In proclaim-
ing that he would defend the Western Hemi-
sphei'e, President Roosevelt had not made an
idle statement. By millions Americans left
their peaceful life. Throughout our entire
country the factories, the mines, and transport
were devoted to producing arms.
Again our Axis enemies said it could not be
done; it was fantastic to talk of building 60,000
planes in a single year.
Again they were wrong. The planes, the
guns, the tanks, the cannon are rolling in increas-
ing lines from our munitions plants. The camps
and the air stations sprang up throughout the
country, as if by magic. The fishermen came
from their boats ; the farmers from the plains ;
the southern planters joined the northern fac-
tory workers ; the rich man's son shared a bunk
with the day laborer.
The convoys began to pass eastward to defend
the great Atlantic reaches, westward to check
the Japanese in the Pacific. Our close friend
and neighbor to the north, Canada, which had
long carried much of the brunt of the struggle,
pooled her resources of materials with our grow-
ing arms.
Nation after nation joined in the common
cause and formed a great union of freedom.
The struggle may be long, but there will be
but one outcome : the wiping out of the forces
of barbaric and cruel conquest and the restoring
of a world in which free men can live freely at
peace.
The democracy that you have had in Iceland
for a thousand years— the freedom that we have
had in America since its foundation — that free-
dom Hitler would destroy in a day if the power
were his. But he has not that power, partly
because Iceland offered her hospitality so that
American troops might stand on guard, and
Gi-eenland gladly gave them the bases and the
stations from which the Battle of the Atlantic
might be fought.
Our soldiers in Iceland are far from home,
but I know they are among friends. Icelanders
who have visited us know that they have no
firmer friends than Americans. Together we
share the Christian ideal of kindness, good
neighborshiij and common solution of common
problems. Together we work for the reestab-
lishment of that freedom and opportunity for
happiness and advancement which God has
given as a heritage to all.
To the people of Iceland and to our soldiers
stationed in the far north, let me give a message
of good cheer. There is no trial we cannot
endure; for we fight at the side of the Lord,
and the victory will be ours.
FIVE YEARS OF CHINESE RESISTANCE
TO JAPANESE AGGRESSION
[Released to the press by the White House July 6]
The following cablegram was addressed by
the Pi'esident to General Chiang Kai-shek, Pres-
ident of the Executive Yiian of China and Gen-
eralissimo of the Armies, and through him to
the people of China, on the occasion of the fifth
anniversary of the attack on China by Japan,
July 7:
"In the name of the people of the United
States, your fighting allies in this war for free-
dom, I greet you on this anniversary of the most
despicable attack on you in all your long and
noble history. The people of the United States
hail you as brothers-in-arms in the great and
difScult tasks remaining before the free and
freedom-loving peoples of all the earth. We
are united as nations and peoples have never
before been united. We are united to the end
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that the common aims of civilized men and
women shall become actual and universal. Five
years ago, at the ]\Iaico Polo Bi'idge, you started
your fight against the forces of darkness which
were hurled against your country and your
civilization. You know, and all the world
knows, how well you have carried on that fight,
which is the fight of all mankind. Increasingly,
your arms and our arms will thrust back the
enemy. You. the people of China, and we, the
people of the United States and the United Na-
tions, will fight on together to victory, to the
establishment of peace and justice and freedom
throughout the world."
[Released to the press July fl]
The following telegram has been received
from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in reply
to the President's message to him on the occa-
sion of the fifth anniversary of the attack on
China by Japan :
"Chungking, July 7, 19Jt2.
"Dear President Roosevelt:
"The Chinese Armj' and people are deeply
moved by the insi)iring message which you were
good enough to send us on this Fifth Anniver-
sary of our war of resistance. Love of peace,
justice and freedom is the traditional trait of
our two peoples. We in concert with twenty-
six allied nations have dedicated ourselves to
the heroic fight in defense of civilization and
humanity as you have truly said in your tele-
gram. Our two armies and peoples are united
in spirit as nations and peoples have never be-
fore been so united. At the same time no
greater responsibilities have devolved upon our
two great democracies since the beginning of
their history. Upon receipt of this message of
greetings from one hundred and thirty million
friends across the Pacific, our army and people
fully realize the prime necessity of annihilating
the forces of evil in the Pacific so as to hasten
the day of victory in this global war against
aggression. Will you please accept my per-
sonal warm thanks and those of the entire
Chinese Army and people.
Chiang Kai-shek"
[Released to the press July 7)
The text of a message from the Secretary of
State to the Chinese Acting Minister for For-
eign Affairs for the People of China follows:
"Five years ago today [July 7] China took up
arms in defense of its soil against renewed Jap-
anese aggression. Since that time the Chinese
people have been ceaselessly and courageously
battling for their liberty against the ruthless
invaders. The American people have watched
with deep sympathy and admiration the heroic
fortitude and tenacity with which for five long
and bitter years the Chinese people have fought
(111 against heavy odds.
"On the occasion of this anniversary I desire
to convey to you and through you to the Chinese
people an expression of the wholehearted good
wishes of the American people who, as com-
rades-in-arms with the Chinese people, are now
facing common aggressors and share a common
peril. AYe realize that the way before us is be-
set with formidable difficulties. We shall not
falter. China's determination to continue reso-
lutely and valiantly as a leader in the fight for
freedom constitutes an inspiring pai-t of the un-
shakeable unity of purpose of the United Na-
tions. The consciousness of those nations of
the justness of their cause, their resolve to make
all necessary sacrifices, and their firm purpose
to carry home to the enemy the war which he
has rapaciously inflicted upon humanity make
certain final victory.
CoRDELL Hull"
American Republics
DISTRIBUTION OF OIL TO THE OTHER
AMERICAN REPUBLICS
[Released to the press July 6]
Supplementing the statement made to the
press on June 8 on the subject of the distribution
of oil to the other American republics, which
is quoted below, the Secretary said, "Scarcity of
available tanker tonnage is becoming increas-
ingly acute and much more severe rationing
JULY 11, 1942
and stricter conservation measures should be in-
stituted without dcLiy in those areas dependent
on tanker-borne supplies."
The Secretary's stateriient at his press con-
ference on June 8 follows :
"The United States, with respect to oil as with
other vital supplies, is adhering to the principle
(if equal and proportionate treatment for con-
sumer needs in the other American republics.
This principle has been applied to the sharing
of various essential and critical materials.
"The problem of maintaining a flow of petro-
leum products to various areas in this hemi-
sphere is similar to that of supplying the Atlan-
tic and Pacific coasts in the United States. It
is mainly an ocean-transportation problem.
"Today millions of automobile users in areas
(if the United States dependent upon water-
borne transportation for fuel have reduced
their gasoline consumption to an average of
three gallons a week under a rationing system.
Pleasure driving in rationed areas has been
largely eliminated so that shipping may be con-
centrated on the primary tasks of supplying
the fighting forces, strategic industries, and
essential civilian needs.
"Hemisplieric application of the principle of
equal treatment of consumers implies use of
tankers for the most essential needs in the as-
signment of vessels on inter-American routes
too.
"Steps have been taken in cooperation with
the other American republics to maintain the
flow of petroleum supplies to those countries
on as favorable a basis as that prescribed within
rationed areas of the United States.
"In addition, the United States has under-
taken to meet oil needs of certain operations in
the other American republics contributing di-
rectly and vitally to the war effort. It is essen-
tial that these operations be maintained.
"Examples of these vital operations are the
military forces of countries fighting the Axis
nations, merchant ships trading in the interest
of the United Nations and friendly neutrals,
airlines, and the mining and transportation of
strategic materials.
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"In determining how tankers should be em-
ployed, the total supplies available to each of
the American republics in relation to its own es-
sential needs must be taken into account and
the tankers sent where the unsatisfied need is
greatest.
"This view of the oil problem has been com-
municated to the governments of the other
American republics."
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF THE
PRESIDENT-ELECT OF COLOMBIA
His Excellency Dr. Alfonso Lopez, President-
elect of Colombia, and members of his party,
including Senor Pedro Lopez y Michelson, the
President-elect's son, arrived in the United
States July 3 for a week's visit. After a few
days in New York City, he came to Washington
on July 7, where he was received at the White
House by President Koosevelt. Seiior Lopez
and his son were dinner and overnight guests
at the Wliite House. During his stay in Wash-
ington he visited Congress, attended a special
session of the Governing Board of the Pan
American Union, and was honored at several
dinners and luncheons.
ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH
BOLIVIA
[Released to the press July 5]
Dr. Joaquin Espada, the Bolivian Minister of
Finance and Senor Alberto Crespo, the Bolivian
Minister of National Economy, accompanied by
Senora de Espada, Senor Franklin Antezana-
paz. Adviser to the Minister of Finance, and Mr.
Joseph A. Inslee, representative of the Export-
Import Bank in Bolivia, will arrive in Wash-
ington on July 5 to discuss with various agen-
cies of the United States Government the pro-
gram for economic cooperation between the
LTnited States and Bolivia in the preparation of
which the two Governments are engaged.
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A United States Economic Mission which has
recently returned from Bolivia after making a
five months' survey in that country has prepared
a report making recommendations covering a
general plan of economic development to be
undertaken by the Bolivian Development Cor-
poration, which is now being organized. This
corporation will be under joint American and
Bolivian management and will be financed par-
tially by funds from the Export-Import Bank.
Problems to be considered include the con-
struction of highways and the development of
the petroleum and agricultural resources of the
country as well as the stimulation of production
of such strategic materials as tin, tungsten, anti-
mony, rubber, and quinine.
Treaty Information
RESTRICTION OF WAR
Convention for the Amelioration of the Condi-
tion of the Wounded and the Sick of Armies
in the Field, and Convention Relating to the
Treatment of Prisoners of War
El Salvador
By a note dated April 27, 1942 the Swiss Min-
ister at Washington informed the Secretary of
State that notification of the adherence by El
Salvador to the Convention for the Ameliora-
tion of the Condition of the Wounded and the
Sick of Armies in the Field (Treaty Series 847) ,
and the Convention Relating to the Treatment
of Prisoners of War (Treaty Series 846), both
of which were signed at Geneva on July 27, 1929,
was received by the Swiss Federal Council on
April 22, 1942. The Minister's note adds that
the notification of adherence states particularly
that the Government of El Salvador considers
itself, in accordance with the provisions of
articles 37 and 95 respectively of the above-men-
tioned conventions, immediately bound by them
by reason of the state of war which now exists
between El Salvador and Germany, Italy, and
Japan.
may do so by a written notification addressed
to the Swiss Federal Council, the adherences to
become effective sis months after the date of
(heir receipt. Articles 37 and 95 of the con-
ventions provide that a state of war shall give
immediate effect to ratifications deposited and
to adlierences notified by belligerent powers
prior to or after the outbreak of hostilities and
that the communication of such notices to the
other contracting parties shall be made by the
Swiss Federal Council by the most rapid
method.
FINANCE
Stabilization Agreements
Brazil
On July 6, 1942 the Secretary of the Treasury,
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and the Charge
d'Affaires of the United States of Brazil in
Washington, Fernando Lobo, signed an agree-
ment extending to July 15, 1947 the Stabiliza-
tion Agreement entered into on July 15, 1937.'
Under this agreement, as extended, the
United States will make dollar exchange avail-
able to the Government of the United States
of Brazil for the purpose of stabilizing the
Brazilian milreis - United States dollar rate of
Both conventions provide that non-signatory
countries desiring to adhere to the conventions
" See Treaty Information Bulletin, No. 94, July 1937,
p. 17.
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623
exchange up to a total amount of $100,000,000
and will sell gold to the United States of Brazil
at such times and in such amounts as the Bra-
zilian Government may request, also to a total
amount of $100,000,000. In the agreement as
originally drafted these two amounts were $60,-
000,000.
The following statement was made by the
Secretary of the Treasury at the time of the
signing of the agreement :
"The extension of this Agreement between
the Treasuries of the United States of America
and the United States of Brazil and the increase
in the facilities made available to Brazil under
the Agreement, are a further evidence of the
close and friendly relations existing between the
two countries and constitute an assurance of
continued cooperation between the two Treas-
uries.
"The friendship and understanding symbol-
ized by this and other agreements with our great
sister republic in South America promise much
for both a joint attack on the problems of the
war and a solution for our common problems
in the peace."
China
The agreement of April 1, 1941 between the
United States and China, under which the
United States Stabilization Fund undertook to
purchase Chinese yuan to the amount of $.50,-
000,000 and under which the Stabilization Board
of China was established, has been extended for
a period of one year beyond June 30, 1942.
The extension of the 1941 agreement is in
accordance with the established policy of the
Treasury of giving full financial aid to the
Chinese Govermnent and of supporting the for-
eign-exchange position of the Chinese yuan.
Cuba
On July 6, 1942 the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and the Cuban
Ambassador, Dr. Aurelio F. Concheso, signed
an agreement under which the Goverimient of
the United States undertakes to sell gold to the
Government of the Republic of Cuba from time
to time with payment to be made within 120
days after delivery of the gold, provided that
the unpaid-for amount of gold shall not at any
time exceed $5,000,000.
The details of the agreement were worked
out between the Cuban and United States Treas-
uries on the occasion of a recent visit to this
country by Dr. Oscar Garcia Montes, the Min-
ister of Finance of Cuba.
This agreement, evidencing the close cooper-
ation that has existed between the Treasuries
of the Republic of Cuba and the United States,
will enable the Cuban Treasury to carry out
operations designed to stabilize the Cuban peso -
United States dollar rate of exchange.
Ecuador
An exchange-stabilization agreement was
signed on February 27, 1942 by the Secretary of
the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the Ecua-
doran Ambassador, Colon Eloy Alfaro, and
the Ecuadoran Minister Counselor, Eduardo
Salazar.
This agreement between the two Governments
provides that up to $5,000,000 of the United
States Stabilization Fund will be used for the
purpose of stabilizing the United States dollar -
Ecuadoran sucre rate of exchange.
The agreement also provides for periodic con-
ferences among representatives of the Secretary
of the Treasury and of the Government of Ecua-
dor to discuss monetary, financial, and economic
problems of mutual interest.
Iceland
The Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Mor-
genthau, Jr., and the Icelandic Minister, Thor
Thors, signed on May 5, 1942 an exchange-stabi-
lization agreement.
Tliis agreement between the Government of
, the United States, the Government of Iceland
and the National Bank of Iceland, provides that
up to $2,000,000 of the United States Stabiliza-
624
tion Fund will be used for the purpose of stabi-
lizing the United States dollar-Icelandic krona
rate of exchange.
The agreement also provides for periodic con-
ferences among representatives of the parties
to the agreement to discuss monetary, financial,
and economic problems of mutual interest.
LABOR
Convention Concerning Annual Holidays
With Pay for Seamen
Mexico
The Acting Secretary General of the League
of Nations informed the Secretary of State by a
circular letter dated June 19, 1942 that the
instrument of ratification by Mexico of the Con-
vention Concerning Annual Holidays With Pay
for Seamen, adopted by the International Labor
Conference at its twenty-first session (October
24, 1936), was registered with the Secretariat
on June 12, 1942.
The countries which have ratified this con-
vention are the United States of America, Bel-
gium, and Mexico. According to the terms of
the convention it will enter into force six months
after the date on which there have been regis-
tered with the Secretary General of the League
of Nations the ratifications of five members of
the International Labor Organization, each of
which has more than one million tons gross sea-
going merchant shipping.
MILITARY MISSIONS
Agreement with Panama for the Detail of a
United States Army Officer As Adviser to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama
[Released to the press July 7)
In response to the request of the Government
of Panama, there was signed on July 7 by Cor-
dell Hull, Secretary of State, and Senor Don
Ernesto Jaen Guardia, Ambassador of Panama
at Washington, an agreement providing for the
detail of an officer of the United States Army
of the grade of colonel to serve as Adviser to
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
the Minister of Foreign Afi'airs of Panama in
relation to matters pertaining to the defense of
Panama.
The agreement will continue in force for one
year from the date of signature but may be ex-
tended beyond one year at the request of the
Government of Panama.
The agreement contains provisions similar in
general to provisions contained in agreements
between the United States and certain other
American republics providing for the detail of
officers of the United States Army or Navy to
advise the armed forces of those countries.
MUTUAL GUARANTIES
Mutual- Aid Agreements with Czechoslovakia,
Greece, the Netherlands, and Norway
The texts of mutual-aid agreements between
the United States and Czechoslovakia, signed
July 11, 1942; Greece, signed July 10, 1942; the
Netherlands, signed July 8, 1942 ; and Norway,
signed July 11, 1942, on the principles applying
to mutual aid in the prosecution of the war,
appear in this Bulletin under the heading "The
War".
Cultural Relations
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF
DISTINGUISHED ARGENTINES
[Released to the press July 8]
Two distinguished Argentines are in Wash-
ington for a two-month tour of this country at
the invitation of the Department of State.
Dr. Teodora Becu, the well-known man of
letters and adviser to the Lozada publishing
firm, arrived by air on July 3; and Dr. Se-
bastian Soler, professor of law at the University
of Cordoba and Judge of the Court of Appeals
of Rosario. arrived on July 4.
Dr. Becu represented his country as official
delegate to the International Aeroiuuitical Con-
gress in Rome in 1922 and to the World Mone-
tary and Economic Congress in London in 1933.
JULY 11, 1942
625
He is an active member of the Society of Argen-
tine Bibliojjhiles and a past editor of The Jurid-
ical and Social Science Review of Buenos
Aires. He lias published two books and several
monograjjhs on banking.
Dr. Soler is well known as a penalist and is an
outstanding authoritj' on juvenile delinquency.
While in this country he will give special atten-
tion to juvenile courts and reform schools.
The Department
APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
Mr. John C. Dreier was designated an Assist-
ant Chief of the Division of the American Re-
publics, effective July 3, 1942 (Departmental
Order 1070) .
Mr. Eobert M. Carr, an Assistant Chief of the
Division of Commercial Policy and Agreements,
has been designated to serve as the Department's
representative on the Interdepartmental Sugar
Policy Committee and on any other interde-
jjartmental committee which may be established
for the consideration of sugar problems. Mr.
Edward G. Cale, Divisional Assistant in the
Division of Commercial Policy and Agreements,
will serve as Mr. Carr's alternate on such
committees.
The Foreign Service
PERSONNEL CHANGES
[Released to the press July 11]
The following changes have occurred in the
American Foreign Service since July 4, 1942:
Jolin Willard Carrigan, of San Francisco,
Calif., Second Secretary of Embassy and Vice
Consul at Mexico, D.F., Mexico, has been as-
signed for duty in the Department of State.
Gerald A. Drew, of San Francisco, Calif.,
Second Secretary of Embassy and Consul at
Quito, Ecuador, has been designated Second
Secretary of Legation at Guatemala, Guatemala.
The appointment of Charles E. Hulick, Jr.,
of Easton, Pa., as Vice Consul at London, Eng-
land, has been canceled. In lieu thereof, Mr.
Hulick has been appointed Vice Consul at
Panama, Panama.
Sidney E. O'Donoghue, of Passaic, N. J., Sec-
ond Secretary of Embassy at Habana, Cuba,
has been designated Second Secretary of Em-
bassy and Consul at Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
David J. Pearsall, of Babylon, N.Y., has been
appointed Vice Consul at Iquitos, Peru.
General
DETAIL OF UNITED STATES EMPLOYEES
TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS
The Secretary of State was authorized and
directed by an Executive order of July 2, 1942
(no. 9190) to achninister, in accordance with
regulations included in the order, the act of
May 3, 1939, which authorized the temporary de-
tail of United States employees possessing spe-
cial qualifications to the governments of the
American republics and the Philippines. The
regulations state that (1) only officers and em-
ployees of the United States Government pos-
sessing special scientific or other technical or
professional qualifications shall be assigned, and
no assignment shall be effected except at the re-
quest of the foreign government concerned; (2)
officers will be detailed to no other governments
than those of the American republics, the Phil-
ippines, and Liberia ; and (3) requests from for-
eign governments will be submitted through
diplomatic channels to the Secretary of State,
who will confer with the appropriate depart-
ment of this Government and take such other
action as is necessary.
The full text of the Executive order appears
in the Federal Register for July 7, 1942, page
5101.
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Publications
Department of State
Reciprocal Trade: Agreement Between the United
States of America and Haiti Relating to Waiver in
Respect of Tariff Preferences Accorded the Domini-
can Republic by Haiti Under a Treaty of Commerce
Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic Signed
August 26, 1941 — Effected by exchange of notes signed
February 16 and 19, 1942. Executive Agreement
Series 238. Publication 1757. 4 pp. 5<>.
Regulations
Export Control: Procedure To Secure Shipping Space
to the Other American Republics ; Shipping Priority
Ratings. July 6, 1942. (Board of Economic War-
fare.) 7 Federal Register '52Q7.
An Act Malving Appropriations for tlie Department of
State, the Department of Justice, the Department of
Commerce, and the Federal Judiciary, for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.
Approved July 2, 1942. [H. R. 6599.] Public Law
644, 77th Cong. 43 pp.
An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in
certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1942, and for prior fiscal years, and for other
purposes. [Department of State, pp. 9, 17.] Ap-
proved July 2, 1942. [H. R. 7232.] Public Law 648,
77th Cong. 21 pp.
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States for whom the Department of State is holding
decorations : Message from the President of the
United States transmitting communication from the
Secretary of State transmitting a list of those retired
officers or employees of the United States for whom
the Department of State is liolding decorations,
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JULY 18, 1942
Vol. VII, No. 160— Publication 1772
C
ontents
The War T»g»
American contributions for British relief 629
French ships at Alexandria, Egypt 631
Cancelation of consular representation between Fin-
land and the United States 632
Exchange of diplomatic and considar representatives . 632
Five years of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggres-
sion 633
The Near East
Death of Turkish Prime Minister 633
American Republics
Pui'chase of Mexican surplus alcohol 633
Rubber agreement with Bolivia 633
Death of Ex-President Ortiz of Argentina 634
Economic cooperation with Bolivia . 634
Cultural Relations
Visit to the United States of Brazilian petroleum
head 634
General
Transportation of certain aliens 634
Commercial Policy \
Inter-American Coffee Agreement 635
The Foreign Service
Personnel changes • fi35
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Strategic materials: Agreement with Bolivia .... 635
Commerce:
Agreement with Mexico for the Purchase of Al-
cohol 635
Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Consular
Rights with Finland 636
Inter-American Coffee Agreement ; . 636
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The War
AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR BRITISH RELIEF
[Released to the press July IG]
There are given below the texts of a letter
from the Prime Minister of Great Britain to
the President and the President's reply thereto,
in regard to American contributions for the
relief of human suffering in Great Britain:
"10, Downing Street,
'Whitehall, June U, WJfS.
"My Dear Mr. President,
"For a long time I have watched with grate-
ful admiration the vast stream of gifts which
from the first days of the War has been flow-
ing from iVmerica to Great Britain for the relief
of suffering and the succour of distress, and in
a volume which has barely lessened as a result
of the advent of war to America, though a con-
siderable diminution of it was well to be ex-
pected. Tlie generosity of these gifts, each one
of which represents a personal sacrifice by an
individual, is overwhelming and without
precedent. I am therefore anxious in the first
I^Iace to express to you, Mr. President, the pro-
found gratitude of the British people, and shall
be glad if there is some way in which you jnay
see fit to pass my feelings along to the American
public.
"My second purpose in addressing you today
is unhappily one of informing you that we now
feel under the necessity of asking that this
brotherly flow of material shall be diminished.
It is not that the gifts are not desired — indeed
they have constantly been ingeniously devised
to meet our real needs and the parcels from
America have become a familiar and welcome
feature in all the misfortunes which have over-
taken our civilian population. The request
which I am now compelled to make is due to
472636 — 42
additional demands on shipping resulting from
the enormously increased flow of war materials
for which ocean transport has to be provided.
We shall have therefore to assign to goods of a
more warlike character the shipping space
which has hitherto been available for the relief
of our people — a sacrifice which we will make
here without complaint, but not without very
great regret.
"As to the method of procedure, we have a
Committee here— the American Gifts Commit-
tee— which hitherto has endeavoured to ensure
that gifts from America shall only be of a char-
acter that shall meet some real need. The Com-
mittee will now have to extend its activities
and try to control the actual volume of gifts.
A statement will shortly be issued to the press
indicating the lines along which it is hoped to
proceed.
"I cannot conclude this letter, Mr. President,
without affirming once again our gratitude for
the comfort in days of suffering and of trial
that was brought to us by the people of America,
and our desire to make known our thanks.
"Yours sincerely,
Winston S. Chubchujl,"
"The White House,
''■W ashing ton, July 9, IQIfi.
"Mx Dear Mr. Prime Minister:
"I have received your letter of June 14, 1942
in which you express the gratitude of the British
■ people for the vast stream of gifts which from
the first days of the war has been flowing from
America to Great Britain for the relief of suf-
fering. You ask that this expression be con-
veyed to the American public.
629
630
"You say also that this flow of material must
be diminished due to additional demands on
shipping and that it will be necessary to assign
to goods of a more warlike character the ship-
ping space which has hitherto been available
for the relief of the British people. You state
further that the iVmerican Gifts Committee in
Great Britain, which hitherto has endeavored
to ensure that gifts from America shall meet
some real need, will now try to control the
actual volume of gifts.
"I am gratified by your statement that the
relief sent from this country has given comfort
to the British people during their days of great
trial, and I shall give to the American people
your expression of appreciation for the gifts
they have provided. I am convinced that their
action is indicative of the profound admiration
felt in this country for the heroic stand of the
British people against a barbarous foe.
"You may be assured that we shall cooperate
in every feasible way with the American Gifts
Committee in order to meet the situation brought
about by the increased demand for shipping.
"Very sincerely yours,
Franklin D Roosevelt"
A statement which has been issued by the
British Government on this subject follows:
"The immense volume of American aid to
Britain, which the British people will never
forget as an expression of goodwill and bound-
less generosity from the American people in
the hour of need, made it necessary to set up a
Committee in London, under the Chairmanship
of Sir Ronald Lindsay, to exercise a general
control over the shipment of gift supplies.
The Committee has so far been able to arrange
for shipment of almost all such supplies
requii-ed to meet pressing needs. The expand-
ing war effort of both nations, however, and
the heavy demands on shipping which this
involves, are now such that the amount of cargo
space which it is possible to assign to American
gifts has had to be very considerably reduced.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
"In order to make the most effective and eco-
nomical use of the space available, it has been
decided that in future, cargo space will be allo-
cated only to direct consigimients approved by
the American Gifts Committee in London and
sent either through the American Red Cross to
tlie British Red Cross and Women's Volimtary
Services, or through the British War Relief
Society to the Personal Service League. No
supplies consigned to, or earmarked for, bodies
or individuals other than the three British
organizations named will therefore be accepted
for shipment from now on.
'•The Committee wishes to make it plain,
liowever, that this decision does not signify that
such other reputable organizations in Great
Britain to whom generous donors and friends
in the United States have sent gifts in the past
through the British War Relief Society will in
future be excluded from sharing in American
aid. Although they will no longer be able to
ha;e shipments addressed to themselves, the
allocation of gift supplies shipped by the Brit-
ish War Relief Society to the Personal Service
League will have due regard to the volimtary
societies, etc. which have been recipients of
American gifts to assist their work hitherto.
They will thus continue to share in American
aid through an allocation which will be made as
fairly and carefully as possible, though it must
be understood that the total amount of gift
supplies to be sliipped from the United States
in future will be much less than in the past
because of the reduced shipping space available
for them.
"It should however be made clear that this
statement does not relate to monetary gifts
since in their case shipping space is not
involved : and that any activity at present being
carried on in Britain under American auspices
as a service to the nation, or any general Fund
of national standing for the relief of air raid
victims or the maintenance of appropriate
charitable institutions will continue to be
among the proper objects of deeply appreciated
financial support from friends in America."
JTILT 18, 1942
631
FRENCH SHIPS AT ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT
In his press conference on July 14, Under
Secretary of State Welles outlined statements
which the United States Government has made
to the French Government at Vichy with re-
gard to French warships at Alexandria. He
pointed out at the outset that these French war-
ships at Alexandria are understood by the
United States Government as being outside the.
provisions of the Armistice agreement entered
into between the French Government at Vichy
and Germany. Mr. Welles said that these war-
ships were in Alexandria at the time of the
Armistice signature and were there in accord-
ance with naval understandings between the
French Government and its then ally, Great
Britain. The Under Secretary said that, on
July 3, in view of the situation which existed
at that time in North Africa, President Roose-
velt made the following proposal to the French
Government at Vichy. The President made it
clear that he hoped that the French ships at
Alexandria could be placed in the protective
custody of the United States, to include passage
of the French ships through the Suez Canal,
thence to a secure and remote part of this hemi-
spliere for the duration of the war, either in a
port of the United States or in some neutral
port, with a guaranty of the return of these
ships to France at the end of the war. The
President said, Mr. Welles added, that he felt
that this proposal was in the interest of France ;
he stated further that if this offer on behalf
of the United States was not accepted by the
French Government, the British, knowing of
this offer, would of course be properly and
wholly justified in ordering the French ships
through the Suez Canal, and, if the order was
not obeyed, they would be wholly justified in
destroying the ships to prevent them from fall-
ing into the hands of the enemy. Mr. Welles
said the offer made at that time by the Presi-
dent was rejected by the French Government.
On July 9, the Under Secretary continued,
the President made a further proposal to the
French Government. He proposed that if the
French Government agreed that the French
naval units now at Alexandria be withdrawn
472636 — 42 2
by way of the Suez Canal, the Government of
the United States by agreement with the Brit-
ish Government would grant safe passage to
Martinique, where they would not be used by
either of the two belligerent Governments,
namely, the United States and Great Britain,
but where they would be immobilized for the
duration of the war on the same basis as other
French warships now at Martinique, with the
assurance that at the end of the war they would
be restored to the French people. The two Gov-
ernments would further agree, Mr. Welles said,
to periodical relief and repatriation of the
crews after they had reached Martinique, on
the same basis which would have obtained had
they remained at Alexandria. The President
made this proposal in view of his belief that
no matter what military situation might de-
velop in North Africa, these French ships
would be in inmiinent danger because of the
possibility of enemy attack, and said specifi-
cally that in the opinion of this Government,
since these ships have from the beginning oc-
cujjied a special, and are now in a precarious,
situation, they are not within the operative
provisions of the Armistice agreement, and
hence the arrangement proposed by the Presi-
dent would not violate the said agreement, Mr.
Welles added. The Under Secretary said he
was sorry to say that that offer of the President
has also been refused by the French Govern-
ment at Vichy, which is insisting that the
French ships proceed to a nearby French port.
In other words, Mr. Welles said, the French
Government at Vichy is refusing the proposal
solely on the ground that the French port sug-
gested by the President is not nearby, and ap-
parently not sufficiently close to German and
Italian hands. The Under Secretary said that
he felt certain that the French people them-
selves will regard this offer made by the Presi-
dent as very much in their interest, since it
would have assured the safety of tlie crews of
those vessels and would have assured the French
people themselves that at the end of the war
these French naval vessels would have been
returned to them.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
CANCELATION OF CONSULAR REPRESENTATION BETWEEN FINLAND AND THE
UNITED STATES
[Released to the press July 16]
Under the terms of article XXIII of the
Treaty of Commerce and Consular Rights of
February 13, 1934 between Finland and the
United States of America,' American consular
officers "may, within their respective consular
districts, address the authorities. National,
State, Provincial or Municipal, for the purpose
of protecting their countrymen in the enjoy-
ment of their rights accruing by treaty or other-
wise."
However, in a note dated July 17, 1941 the
Finnish Foreign Ministry informed the Ajneri-
can Legation in Helsinki that "in view of war-
time conditions" consular matters should be
handled entirely through the Finnish Foreign
Ministry rather than directly with local au-
thorities. This action of the Finnish Foreign
Ministry had the direct eflfect of denying to
American consular officers in Finland the spe-
cific treaty rights mentioned above.
Furthermore, the Finnish Foreign Ministry
in a note dated July 9, 1942 informed the Ameri-
can Legation that with reference to the For-
eign Ministry's note of July 17, 1941 it was pref-
erable to postpone to a subsequent date the
question of an exequatur for a career officer of
the American Foreign Service whom the Ameri-
can Government had recently commissioned as
a vice consul in Helsinki and for whom the
American Legation had requested provisional
recognition in accordance with established cus-
tom in such cases.
The American Legation, acting on instruc-
tions from its Government, informed the Fin-
nish Foreign Ministry in a note dated July 16,
1942 that the request which the American Lega-
tion had made for the provisional recognition
of the consular officer referred to above was
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withdrawn. The Legation further informed
the Finnish Foreign Ministry that by the Mat-
ter's action in regard to the withholding of
recognition of the consular officer referred to
and in denying American consular officers pres-
ently in Finland their treaty rights in connec-
tion with the representation of American in-
terests in Finland the Finnish Government had
undermined the basis upon which American
consular representation was maintained in Fin-
land. Accordingly, the Foreign Ministry was
informed that the consular commissions of the
American consular officers at present in Finland
had been canceled and the consular section of
the American Legation in Helsinki was being
closed immediately, and that this action had
been taken by the American Government to
put an end to the present untenable situation
involved in maintaining American consular
representation in Finland in the face of the at-
titude adopted by the Finnish Government in
the matter. The Finnish Government was re-
quested by the American Legation to close all
Finnish consular offices in the United States
not later than August 1, 1942.
EXCHANGE OF DIPLOMATIC AND CON-
SULAR REPRESENTATIVES
[Released to the press July 15]
The S.S. Drottningholm, which was pre-
viously used for the exchange of American and
Axis nationals between Lisbon and New York, is
returning to her home port of Goteborg, Swe-
den, with approximately 800 Axis nationals
aboard. The ship sailed on July 15.
Most of the Axis nationals are from the other
American republics.
JULY 18, 1942
FIVE YEARS OF CHINESE RESISTANCE TO
JAPANESE AGGRESSION
[Released to the press July 14]
The translation of a telegram received by the
Secretary of State from Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek, of China, President of the Executive
Yiiun and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs,
follows :
July 7, 1942.
"I wish to convey to you the appreciation of
the Chinese Government and people for your
telegraphic message of good wishes on the occa-
sion of the fifth anniversary of China's war of
resistance against aggression.
''China and the United States are now faced
with the same enemy and are engaged in a com-
mon struggle in concert with other anti-aggres-
sion nations. This constitutes a most memo-
rable event in the long history of cordial rela-
tions between our two countries. The Chinese
Army and people will long remember your
message in praise of China's war effort, and we
will surely spur ourselves to further endeavors
in the fulfilment of our duties in order to bring
about the defeat of the brutal aggressors for the
common good of our two countries and all the
other United Nations.
Chiang Kai-shek"
633
American Republics
PURCHASE OF MEXICAN SURPLUS
ALCOHOL
[Released to the press July 17]
The Department of State, the Board of Eco-
nomic Warfare, and tlie Coimnodity Credit
Corporation announced on July 17 the signa-
ture of an agreement between the Commodity
Credit Corporation and the Sociedad Nacional
de Productores de Alcohol of Mexico under the
terms of which the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion will purchase the entire exportable surplus
of the alcohol production of Mexico up to the
end of February 1943, at a price of 40 cents per
gallon, f.o.b. Laredo, Tex. The negotiations
were carried on in Washington with Senor
Kamon Beteta, Mexican Under Secretary of
Finance and Minister from Mexico to this
country in charge of economic and commercial
negotiations on behalf of the Mexican Govern-
ment, and with Seiior Aaron Saenz, Senor
Ramon A. Hernandez, and Seiior Josue Saenz
representing the Sociedad Nacional de Produc-
tores de Alcohol.
The Near East
DEATH OF TURKISH PRIME MINISTER
[Released to the pre.ss July 13]
The Secretary of State, on July 9, sent the
following telegram to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Turkey :
''I desire to express to you personally and
through you to the Government and people of
Turkey my heartfelt sympathy, and that of the
Government and people of the United States
in the great loss which Turkey and the friends
of Turkey have suffered in the sudden death of
Prime Minister Saydam.
CoRDELL Hull"
RUBBER AGREEMENT WITH BOLIVIA
[Released to the press July 15]
The signing of a rubber agreement with Bo-
livia was announced on July 15 by the Depart-
ment of State, the Rubber Reserve Company,
and the Board of Economic Warfare.
Under the terms of the agreement the Rub-
ber Reserve Company will purchase during the
next five years all rubber produced in Bolivia
other than amounts required for essential do-
mestic needs there and except for a maximum
, of 250 tons which is to be available annually for
export to neighboring countries.
The agreement provides for the expenditure
of $2,125,000 by the Rubber Reserve Company
in the development of rubber resources in
Bolivia.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
The Bolivian agreement is the sixth under
the United States' program to secure for the
united war effort the maximum possible
amount of rubber produced in the Western
Hemisphere. The other agreements, already in
effect, are with Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, and Colombia. Negotiations for similar
agreements are proceeding with a number of
other American rubber-producing countries.
DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT ORTIZ OF
ARGENTINA
[Released to the press July 151
The following statement has been issued by
the Secretary of State :
"I have learned with the most profound sor-
row of the death of Dr. Roberto M. Ortiz,
until recently President of the Argentine
Republic.
"Every man and woman throughout the
Americas who is today supporting the great
cause of human liberty and every citizen of the
Americas who believes in and recognizes the
need for inter-American solidarity will receive
the news of the death of Dr. Ortiz with a sense
of personal loss.
"Ex-President Ortiz was one of the out-
standing statesmen of the New World. His
high abilities and the courage and force with
which he fought for the ideals in which he
believed will cause his name to be always
remembered in the Western Hemisphere with
gratitude and with admiration.
"His death is deeply regretted by the Gov-
ernment and people of the United States."
ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH BOLFVIA
Dr. Joaquin Espada, Bolivian Minister of
Finance, and Seiior Alberto Crespo, Bolivian
Minister of National Economy, and members of
their party, who have been in the United States
discussing with various agencies of the United
States Government the program for economic
cooperation between the United States and
Bolivia, will, accompanied by His Excellency
Luis Fernando Guachalla, Bolivian Ambassa-
dor in Washington, depart from Washington
on July 19 for Detroit and Buffalo, where they
will visit several large automobile and airplane
factories. They will return to Washington on
July 21.
Cultural Relations
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF
BRAZILIAN PETROLEUM HEAD
[Released to the press July 18]
General Horta Barbosa, President of the
Brazilian National Petroleum Council, is now
in the United States for a visit of approxi-
mately three weeks as the guest of the Depart-
ment of State.
In his position as head of the Brazilian Na-
tional Petroleum Council, General Horta Bar-
bosa is responsible for supervision of the pe-
troleum industry in his country and has come
to the LTnited States with a particular interest
in the present oil situation here and methods
of rationing and distribution.
After a few days in Washington, General
Horta Barbosa will visit some of the leading
oil-producing and -refining centers of the
United States.
General
TRANSPORTATION OF CERTAIN ALIENS
On July 8, 1942 the Secretary of State issued
general license 1 authorizing, for the purpose of
section 3(b) of the Trading-with-the- Enemy
Act, the transportlation of certain citizens or
subjects of an enemy, or ally-of-an-enemy,
nation. The text of the general license is
printed in the Federal Register for July 14,
1942, page 5368. It was issued as Department of
State press release 365 of July 14, 1942.
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Commercial Policy
INTER-AMERICAN COFFEE AGREEMENT
[ Released to tlie press July 171
Executive Order 8863 of August 21, 1941,
allocating for the ijresent quota-year the quota
provided by article VII of the Inter-American
Coffee Agreement for countries which are not
signatories of the agreement, terminates on Sep-
tember 1, 1942, one month before the end of the
quota-year. It has been decided not to allocate
the non-signatory quota for the year begimiing
October 1, 1942. The effect of this decision will
be to facilitate the entry into the United States
of coffee from non -signatory countries ■which
are in a position to supply it under the non-
signaiory quota.
The Foreign Service
PERSONNEL CHANGES
[Released to the press .Tuly IS]
The following changes have occurred in the
American Foreign Service since Julj' 11, 1942:
George Cai'iiahan, of New York, N. Y., has
been appointed Foreign Service officer, unclassi-
fied, Secretary in the Diplomatic Service, and
Vice Consul of Career, and has been assigned
as Vice Consul at Barranquilla, Colombia.
George T. Colman, of Eacine, Wis., Senior
Economic Analyst at Siio Paulo, Brazil, has
been appointed Vice Consul at Sao Paulo,
Brazil.
John L. Goshie, of New York, N. Y., for-
merly Third Secretary of Embassy at Rome,
Italy, has been designated Assistant Commei--
cial Attache at Caracas, Venezuela.
Rudolph W. Hefti, of Ardmore, Pa., Clerk
at Tabriz, Iran, has been appointed Vice Con-
sul at Tabriz, Iran.
Eugene M. Hinkle, of New York, N. Y., for-
merly Second Secretary of Embassy at Berlin,
(xermany, has been designated Second Secretary
of Embassy at Habana, Cuba.
Miss Elizabeth Humes, of Memphis, Tenn.,
formerly Second Secretary of Legation at Co-
IX'uhagen, Denmark, has been designated Sec-
ond Secretary of Legation at Lisbon, Portugtil.
Charles A. Livengood, of Dayton, Wash.,
formerly Commercial Attache at Rome, Italy,
has been designated Commercial Attache at
Bogota, Colombia.
Treaty Information
STRATEGIC MATERIALS
Agreement with Bolivia
An annoimcement regarding the signature
of an agreement with Bolivia under the terms
of which the Rubber Reserve Company will
purchase over the next five yeai's all rubber
produced in Bolivia other than amomits re-
quired for essential domestic needs and except
for a maximum of 250 tons which is to be avail-
able annually for export to neighboring coun-
tries, appears in this Bulletin under the head-
ing "American Republics".
COMMERCE
Agreement with Mexico for the Purchase of
Alcohol
An announcement of the agreement between
the Commodity Credit Corporation and the
Sociedad Nacional de Productores de Alcohol
of Mexico under the terms of which the Com-
modity Credit Corporation will purchase the
entire exportable surjjlus of the alcohol produc-
tion of Mexico up to the end of February 1943,
appears in this Bulletin under the heading
"American Republics".
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Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Consular
Rights with Finland
An announcement regarding the closing of
tlie American consulates in Finland and the
Finnish consulates in the United States appears
in this Bulletin under the lieading "The War''.
The notification was given by this Government
to the Finnish Government in a note dated July
16, 1942 as a result of the withholding of recog-
nition of an American consular officer and in
denying American consular officers in Finland
their treaty rights under the terms of article
XXIII of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce,
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and Consular Eights of February 13, 1934
between the United States and Finland (Treaty
Series 868).
Inter-American Coffee Agreement
An announcement regarding the termina-
tion of Executive Order 8863, which allocated
for the present quota-year the quota provided
by article VII of the Inter-American Coffee
Agreement for the countries which are not sig-
natories of the agreement, and the decision not
to allocate the non-signatory quota for the year
beginning October 1, 1942, appears in this Bul-
letin under the heading "Commercial Policy".
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BULLETIN
JULY 25, 1942
Vol. VII, No. 161— Publication 1775
C
ontents
The War p,^
The War and Human Freedom: Address by the Secre-
tary of State 639
Mutual-aid agreement with Yugoslavia:
Joint statement by the President and the King of
Yugoslavia . 647
Signing of the agreement 647
Natives and citizens of Hungary, Rumania, and Bul-
garia in the United States 650
Proclaimed List: Supplement 4 to Revision II ... . 650
American Republics
Rubber agreement with Ecuador 650
Cultural Relations
Visit to the United States of Venezuelan archivist . . 651
Visit to the United States of Brazdian historian . . . 651
The Foreign Service
Resignation of Ambassador Leahy 651
Personnel changes 652
Treaty Information
Telecommunications: International Telecommunication
Convention 652
Restriction of war: Convention Relating to the Treat-
ment of Prisoners of War 653
Commerce: Trade Agreement with Uruguay .... 653
Mutual guaranties: Mutual Aid Agreement with Yugo-
slavia . ; 653
Strategic materials: Agreement with Ecuador .... 654
Legislation ; 654
Publications 654
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AUG 11 1942
The War
THE WAR AND HUMAN FREEDOM
ADDRESS BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE ■
[Released to the press July 23]
The conflict now raging throughout the
earth is not a war of nation against nation.
It is not a local or regional war or even a series
of such wars. On the side of our enemies, led
and driven by the most ambitious, depraved,
and cruel leaders in history, it is an attempt
to conquer and enslave this country and every
country. On our side, the side of the United
Nations, it is, for each of us, a life-and-death
struggle for the preservation of our freedom,
our homes, our very existence. We are united
in our determination to destroy the world-wide
forces of ruthless conquest and brutal enslave-
ment. Their defeat will restore freedom or the
opportunity for freedom alike to all countries
and all peoples.
I
From Berlin and Tokyo the assault on human
freedom has spread in ever-widening circles.
In some cases the victim nations were lulled
into inaction by promises or by protestations
of peaceful intention. In other cases they
were so intimidated that no preparation for
resistance was made. In all cases the invaders,
before armed attack, set into motion every con-
ceivable device of deceit, subversion, treachery,
and corruption within the borders of the
intended victim.
' Broadcast over all national radio networks July 23,
1942.
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As country after country, in Europe and in
Asia, was attacked in this way, it became clear
that no nation anywhere was immune, that for
none was safety to be found in more desire for
peace, in avoidance of provocation, in neu-
trality, or in distance from the centers of assault.
Nation after nation learned — too late — that
safety against such an attack lay only in more
effective force; in superior will; in concerted
action of all free nations directed toward re-
sisting and defeating the common enemies; in
applying the law of self-defense and self-
preservation rather than in relying upon pro-
fessions of neutrality, which, in the face of a
world-wide movement to subjugate all nations
and all peoples, are as absurd and as suicidal
as are such professions on the part of a citizen
of a peaceful community attacked by a band of
confessed outlaws.
Today twenty-eight United Nations are
fighting against the would-be conquerors and
enslavers of the human race. We know what
is at stake. By the barbarian invaders of
today nothing is spared — neither life, nor
morals, nor honor, nor virtue, nor pledges,
nor the customs, the national institutions,
even the religion of any people. Their aim is
to sweep away every vestige of individual and
national rights; to substitute, the world over,
their unspeakable tyranny for the ways of
life developed each for itself by the various
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nations; to make all mankind subservient to
their will; to convert the two billions of the
earth's inhabitants into abject victims and
tools of their insatiable lust for power and
dominion.
We have seen their work in the countries
they have invaded — murder of defenseless
men, women, and children; rape, torture, and
piUage; mass terrorization; the black system
of hostages; starvation and deprivations that
beggar description; the most thorough-going
bondage the world has ever seen.
This is the so-called "New Order" of Hitler
and the Japanese war lords — an order as old
as slavery — new only in the calculated thor-
oughness of its cruelty; in the depth of the
degradation to which it subjects its victims;
in the degree to which it has revived the worst
practices of the darkest ages in history.
From time immemorial attempts at con-
quest and enslavement have checked and
harried the great onward march of men and
women toward greater freedom and higher
levels of civUized existence. The methods
employed have been the same as those which
we witness today. Ruthless, ambitious men
would succeed in corrupting, coercing, or de-
ceiving into blind obedience enough servile
followers to attack or terrify peaceful and
law-abiding peoples, too often unprepared to
resist. In a few instances whole civilizations
coUapsed under the impact, and darkness de-
scended on large portions of the world. More
often, the attacks were — at great cost — de-
feated, and mankind resumed its onward
march. Yet throughout the ages two lessons
have remained unlearned.
The first is that man's umate striving for
freedom cannot be extinguished. Since the
world began too many men have fought, suf-
fered, and died for freedom — and not in vain —
for doubt to remain on that score. And yet,
over and over again woidd-be conquerors and
enslavers of mankind have sought to translate
their mad dreams of barbarous domination
into reality.
The second lesson is that liberty is truly won
only when it is guarded by the same watchful-
ness, the same courage, the same willingness to
fight for it which first secured it. Repeatedly
throughout history, free men — having won the
fight, having acquired precious rights and
privileges which freedom brings — have dropped
their guard, relaxed their vigUance, taken their
freedom for granted. iThey have busied
themselves with many things and have not
noticed the beginnings of new tyrannies, the
rise of new threats to liberty. They have
become so abhorrent of force and cruelty that
they have believed the bully and the gangster
could be reformed by reason and justice or be
defeated by passive resistance. And so they
have been surprised and unprepared when the
attacks have come again.
It is perhaps too much to expect that tyrants
will ever learn that man's longing for liberty
cannot be destroyed. Dreams of conquest
have their roots in diseased mentaUty. And
that malady may well be ineradicable.
But it is not too much to expect that free
men may learn — and never forget — that lack of
vigilance is the greatest danger to Uberty; that
enjoyment of liberty is the fruit of willingness to
fight, suffer, and die for it; that the right to
freedom cannot be divorced from the duty of
defending it.
This latest assault on hxmian freedom is, in a
profound sense, a searching test for nations and
for individuals. There is no surer way for
men and for nations to show themselves
unworthy of liberty than, by supine submission
and refusal to fight, to render more difficult the
task of those who are fighting for the preserva-
tion of human freedom — unless it be to align
themselves, freely and volxmtarUy, with the
destroyers of liberty. There is no surer way
for men and for nations to show themselves
worthy of liberty than to fight for its preserva-
tion, in any way that is open to them, against
those who would destroy it for all.
In the plans of the new tyrants of the East
and of the West, there is no freedom or hope for
anyone. If there be some people who believe
that they can expect from Hitler or the Japan-
ese war lords greater measure of freedom or of
opportunity for freedom than they now possess,
they need only look at the firing squads in
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, France,
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641
Yugoslavia, at the concentration camps in
Germany and Austria. They need only see
the degradation of the forced laborers torn
from every occupied country. They can learn
the fraudulent quality of that brand of "free-
dom" from the Chinese in Nanking, from the
Filipinos in Manila, from the inhabitants of the
East Indies.
There is no chance for liberty for any people
anywhere save through the victory of the free
peoples. Never did a plainer duty to fight
against its foes devolve upon all peoples who
prize liberty and all who aspire to it. Never
was there such an opportunity for every people,
as have the people of the Philippines, to dem-
onstrate its fitness both for the rights and the
responsibilities of freedom — and, through proof
given of its fitness, to create an overwhelming
sentiment in every coimtry of the world in
support of its striving for liberty.
II
We, Americans, are fighting today because
we have been attacked. We are fighting, as I
have said, to preserve our very existence. We
and the other free peoples are forced into a
desperate fight because we did not learn the
lessons of which I have spoken. We are forced
to fight because we ignored the simple but
fundamental fact that the price of peace and of
the preservation of right and freedom among
nations is the acceptance of international re-
sponsibilities.
After the last war too many nations, includ-
ing our own, tolerated, or participated in, at-
tempts to advance their own interests at the
expense of any system of collective security and
of opportunity for all. Too many of us were
blind to the evils which, thus loosed, created
growing cancers within and among nations —
political suspicions and hatreds; the race of
armaments, first stealthy and then the subject
of flagrant boasts; economic nationalism and its
train of economic depression and misery; and
finally the emergence from their dark places of
the looters and thugs who found their oppor-
timity in disorder and disaster. The shadow of
a new war fell across the world. War began in
1931 when Japan invaded China.
From the time when the first signs of menace
to the peace of the world appeared f)n the hori-
zon, the Government of the United States
strove increasingly to promote peace on the
solid foundation of law, justice, non-interven-
tion, non-aggression, and international collabo-
ration. With growing insistence we advocated
the principles of a broad and constructive
world order in political, economic, social, moral,
and intellectual relations among nations —
principles which must constitute the foundation
of any satisfactory futm^e world order. We
practiced these principles in our good-neighbor
policy, which was applicable to every part of
the earth and which we sought to apply not
alone in the Western Hemisphere, but in the
Pacific area, in Europe, and everywhere else as
well.
When hostilities broke out and wars were
declared, our Government made every honor-
able and feasible eft'ort to prevent spread of the
conflicts and to safeguard this country against
being drawn into war. But danger increased
aU around us. Peaceful, unoffending countries,
one after another, were brought under the heel
of the invader, both in Europe and in Asia.
Hitler and the Japanese war lords, by their acts
and their official declarations, have made it
plain that the purpose of the Japanese is to
conquer and dominate virtually one-half of the
world with one-half of its population, w^hile
Hitler's purpose is, first to conquer continental
Europe, and then to seize the British Isles, and
through control of the British fleet to dominate
the seven seas.
Events have demonstrated beyond question
that each of the Axis powers was bent on un-
limited conquest. As time went on it became
manifest that the United States and the whole
Western Hemisphere were ultimate targets.
Conclusive proof was given by the international
desperadoes themselves thi-ough the publication
on September 27, 1940 of the Tripartite Pact.
By that treaty of alliance Germany, Japan, and
Italy in effect agreed that, if any country not
then at war with one of them placed obstacles
in the way of the program of conquest of any
of them, the three would unite in political,
military, and economic action against that
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country. This provision was aimed directly
at the United States. One of the hi^'hest official
spokesmen of the Axis powers openly pro-
claimed that the objective of the three partners
was a new world order to be achieved by force.
Finalh' a realization that these plans and
purposes created a state of imminent and acute
danger to all remaining peaceful countries,
especially to those of the Western Hemisphere,
forced us to face the all-important question as
to when and where the peaceful nations, includ-
ing ours, should begin to resist the movements
of military aggression in order to make such
resistance n:ost effective.
It was in these circumstances that our Gov-
ernment felt the compelling importance of
adopting the policy of aid to Great Britain and
to other nations which resisted aggression, as
set forth in the Lease-Lend Act, submitted to
Congress in January 194L It is scarcely
necessary to say that all subsequent utterances
and acts of the leaders of Germany, Japan, and
Italy have fullj^ confirmed the wisdom and
timeliness of the policy of this Government in
thus proceeding to defend the country before
it should be too late.
In December 1941, acting in concert, moving
in harmony with their world-wide objective, all
three launched their assault against us, the
spearhead of which was at Pearl Harbor, rea-
soning that to achieve victory they must con-
quer us, and to conquer us they must strike
before we were prepared to resist successfully.
When they made this concerted attack against
us, the war lords of Japan and Germany must
have believed that at the root of our sincere
and strong defire for peace lay a lack of will
and of capacity to rise in unity of purpose and
to pour all our strength and energy into the
battle. They have since begun to learn better
at Wake and at Midway; at Bataan and at
Corregidor; in the Straits of Macassar and in
the Coral Sea ; from the sky over Tokyo itself ;
again at Midway; on and over every ocean of
the world traversed by our air fleets and our
naval and merchant vessels; on every battle-
field of the world increasingly supplied with
our war materials. They will have final and
conclusive answer from our e.^anding armies,
navies, and air forces, operating side by side
with our valiant allies and backed by our
nation-wide industrial power and the courage,
the determination, and the ingenuity of our
people. That answer is being forged in the
fighting spirit which now pervades the people
of this country, in the will to victory of all the
United Nations.
In this vast struggle, we, Americans, stand
united with those who, like ourselves, are fight-
ing for the preservation of their freedom; with
those who are fighting to regain the freedom of
which they have been brutally deprived; with
those who are fighting for the opportunity to
achieve freedom.
We have always believed — and we believe
today — that all peoples, without distinction of
race, color, or religion, who are prepared and
willing to accept the responsibilities of liberty,
are entitled to its enjoyment. We have always
sought — and we seek today — to encourage and
aid all who aspire to freedom to establish their
right to it by preparing themselves to assume
its obligations. We have striven to meet
squarely our own responsibility in this respect —
in Cuba, in the Philippines, and wherever else
it has devolved upon us. It has been our pur-
pose in the past — and will remain our purpose
in the future — to use the full measure of our
influence to support attainment of freedom by
all peoples who, by their acts, show themselves
worthy of it and ready for it.
We, who have received from the preceding
generations the priceless fruits of the centuries-
old struggle for liberty, freely accept today the
sacrifices which may be needed to pass on to
our children an even greater heritage.
Our enemies confront us with armed might in
every part of the globe. We cannot win this
war by standing at our borders and limiting
ourselves to beating off attacks. Air, sub-
marine, and other forms of assault can be effec-
tively defeated only if those attacked seek out
and destroy the sources of attack. We shall
send all the aid that we can to our gallant
allies. And we shall seek out our enemies and
attack them at any and every point of the globe
JULY 25, 1942
643
at which the destruction of the Axis forces can
be accomplished most effectively, most speedily,
and most certainly.
We know the magnitude of the task before
us. We Ivuow that its accomplislunent will
exact unlimited effort and unfaltering corn-age.
However long the road we shall press on to the
final victory.
Temporary reverses must not and will not
be the occasion for wealoiess and discourage-
ment. On the contrary they are the signal for
all true soldiers and patriots to strike back all
the harder, with that superb resolution which
never yields to force or tlu-eat of force.
Fighting as we are in self-defense, in self-
preservation, we must make certain the defeat
and destruction of the world-invading forces of
Hitler and the Japanese war lords. To do this
our people and the peoples of every one of the
twenty-eight United Nations must make up
their minds to sacrifice time and substance and
life itself to an extent unprecedented in past
history.
International desperadoes like individual ban-
dits will not abandon outlawry voluntarily.
They wdl only be stopped by force.
Ill
With victory achieved our first concern must
be for those whose sufferings have been almost
beyond human endurance. When the armies
of our enemies are beaten, the people of many
countries wdl be starving and without means
of procuring food; homeless and without means
of building shelter; their fields scorched; their
cattle slaughtered; theii' tools gone; their fac-
tories and mines destroyed; their roads and
transport wrecked. Unknown millions will be
far from their homes — prisoners of war, in-
mates of concentration camps, forced laborers
in alien lands, refugees from battle, from cruelty,
from starvation. Disease and danger of disease
wiU lurk everywhere. In some countries con-
fusion and chaos will follow the cessation of
hostilities. Victory must be followed by swift
and effective action to meet these pressing
human needs.
At the same time all countries — those which
will need relief and those more fortunate — will
bo faced with the immediate problems of transi-
tion from war to peace. War production must
be transformed into production for the peace-
time needs of mankind. In some countries the
physical ravages of war must be repaired. In
others, agriculture must be re-established. In
all countries returning soldiers must find places
in the work of peace. There wUl be enormous
deficiencies of many kinds of goods. AH
countries, including oure, wUl need an immense
volume of production. There will, therefore,
exist vast opportunities for useful employment.
The termination' of the war effort will release,
for use in peaceful pursuits, Stirling enthusiasms,
the aspirations and energies of youth, technical
experience, and — in many industries — ample
plants and abundance of tools. The compel-
ling demands of war are revealing how great a
supply of goods can be produced for national
defense. The needs of peace should be no less
compelling, though some of the means of meet-
ing them must be different. Toward meeting
these needs each and every nation should in-
tensively direct its efforts to the creation of an
abundance for peacetime life. This can oidy
be achieved by a combination of the efforts of
individuals, the efforts of groups, and the
efforts of nations. Governments can and must
help to focus the energies by encouraging,
coordinating, and aiding the efforts of indi-
viduals and groups.
During this period of transition the United
Nations must continue to act in the spirit of
cooperation which now underlies their war
effort — to supplement and make more effective
the action ot countries individually in re-
establishing public order, in providing swift
relief, in meeting the manifold problems of
readjustment.
Beyond these there will lie before all countries
the great constructive task of building human
freedom and Christian morality on firmer and
broader foundations than ever before. This
task, too, will of necessity call for both national
and international action.
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Within each nation liberty under law is an
essential requirement of progress. The spirit
of liberty, when deeply imbedded in the minds
and hearts of the people, is the most powerful
remedy for racial animosities, religious intoler-
ance, ignorance, and all the other evUs which
prevent men from uniting in a brotherhood of
truly civUized existence. It inspires men to
acquisition of knowledge and understanding.
It is the only real foundation of political and
social stability.
Liberty is more than a matter of political
rights, indispensable as those rights are. In
our own country we have learned from bitter
experience that to be truly free, men must have,
as weU, economic freedom and economic secu-
rity— the assurance for aU alike of an oppor-
timity to work as free men in the company of
free men; to obtain through work the material
and spiritual means of life; to advance through
the exercise of ability, initiative, and enterprise;
to make provision against the hazards of human
existence. We know that tliis is true of man-
kind everywhere. We laiow that in all coun-
tries there has been — and there will be increas-
ingly in the future — demand for a forward
movement of social justice. Each of us must
be resolved that, once the war is won, this
demand shall he met as speedily and as fully
as possible.
All these advances — in political freedom, in
economic betterment, in social justice, in spir-
itual values — can be achieved by each nation
primarily through its own work and effort,
mainly through its o^vn wise policies and ac-
tions. They can be made only where there is
acceptance and cultivation of the concepts and
the spirit of human rights and human freedom.
It is impossible for any nation or group of na-
tions to prescribe the methods or provide the
means by which any other nation can accom-
plish or maintain its own political and economic
independence, be strong, prosper, and attain
high spiritual goals. It is possible, however,
for all nations to give and to receive help.
That which nations can and must do toward
helping one another is to take, by cooperative
action, steps for the elimination of impedunents
and obstructions which prevent the full use by
each — for the welfare of its people— of the
energy and resources which are at its com-
mand. And the nations can and must, again
by cooperative action under common agree-
ment, create such facilities as will enable each
to increase the effectiveness of its own national
efforts.
Such cooperative action is already under way.
Twenty-eight United Nations have proclaimed
their adherence to a program of principles and
purposes by which manldnd may advance
toward higher standards of national and inter-
national corduct. That program is embodied
in the Declaration made on August 14, 1941,
by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill, now kno\vn as the Atlantic Charter.'
The pledge of the Atlantic Charter is of a
system which will give eveiy nation, large or
small, a greater assurance of stable peace,
greater opportunity for the realization of its
aspirations to freedom, and greater facilities
for material advancement. But that pledge
implies an obligation for each nation to demon-
strate its capacity for stable and progressive _
government, to fulfill scrupulously its estab- m
lished duties to other nations, to settle its
International differences and disputes by none
but peaceful methods, and to make its full
contribution to the msmtenance of enduring
peace.
IV
For decades all nations have lived in the
shadow of threatened coercion or war. This
has imposed heavy burdens of armament,
which in the cases of many nations has ab-
sorbed so large a part of their production effort
as to leave the remainder of their resources
inadequate for maintaining, let alone improv- ,.
ing, the economic, social, and cultural stand- I
ards of their people. Closely related to tliis
has been a burden less obvious but of immense
weight — the inevitable limitation that fear of
war imposes on productive activity. Many
men, groups of men, and even nations have
dared not plan, create, or increase the means
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JULY 25, 1942
645
of production, fearing lest war come and their
efforts thus be rendered vain.
No nation can make satisfactory progress
while its citizens are in the grip of constant
fear of external attack or interference. It is
plain that some international agency must be
created which can — by force, if necessary — keep
the peace among nations in the future. There
must be international cooperative action to
set up the mechanisms which can thus insure
peace. This nmst include eventual adjustment
of national armaments in such a mamier that
the rule of law camiot be successfully challenged
and that the burden of armaments may be
reduced to a minimmn.
In the creation of such mechanisms there
would be a practical and purposeful application
of sovereign powers through measures of inter-
national cooperation for purposes of safeguard-
ing the peace. Participation by all nations in
such measures would be for each its contribution
toward its own future security and safety from
outside attack.
Settlement of disputes by peaceful means, and
indeed aU processes of international coopera-
tion, presuppose respect for law and obligations.
It is plain that one of the institutions which
must be estabhshed and be given vitality is
an international court of justice. It is equally
clear that, in the process of re-establishuig
international order, the United Nations must
exercise surveillance over aggressor nations
until such time as the latter demonstrate their
willingness and ability to live at peace with
other nations. How long such surveillance will
need to continue must depend upon the rapidity
with which the peoples of Germany, Japan,
Italy, and their satellites give convincing proof
that they have repudiated and abandoned the
monstrous philosophy of superior race and con-
quest by force and have embraced loyally the
basic principles of peaceful processes. During
the formative period of the world organization,
interruption by these aggressors must be
rendered impossible.
One of the greatest of all obstacles which in
the past have impeded human progress and af-
forded breeding grounds for dictators has been
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extreme nationalism. AU will agree that na-
tionalism and its spirit are essential to the
healthy and normal political and economic life
of a people, but when policies of nationalism —
political, economic, social, and moral — are car-
ried to such extremes as to exclude and prevent
necessary poUcies of international cooperation,
they become dangerous and deadly. Nation-
alism, run riot between the last war and this
war, defeated all attempts to carry out indis-
pensable measures of international economic
and political action, encouraged and facilitated
the rise of dictators, and drove the world
straight toward the present war.
During this period narrow and short-sighted
nationalism found its most virulent expression
in the economic field. It prevented goods and
services from flowing in volume at all adequate
from nation to nation and thus severely ham-
pered the work of production, distribution, and
consumption and greatly retarded efforts for
social betterment.
No nation can make satisfactory progress
when it is deprived, by its own action or by
the action of others, of the immeasurable bene-
fits of international exchange of goods and
services. The Atlantic Charter declares the
right of all nations to "access, on equal terms,
to the trade and to the raw materials of the
world which are needed for their economic
prosperity". This is essential if the legitimate
and growing demand for the greatest practicable
measure of stable employment is to be met, ac-
companied by rising standards of living. If
the actual and potential losses resulting from
limitations on economic activity are to be elim-
inated, a system must be provided by which
this can be assured.
In order to accomplish this, and to estab-
lish among the nations a circle of mutual
benefit, excessive trade barriers of the many
different kinds must be reduced, and practices
which impose injuries on others and divert
trade from its natural economic course must
be avoided. Equally plain is the need for
making national currencies once more freely
exchangeable for each other at stable rates of
exchange; for a system of financial relations
646
DEPAETMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
SO devised that materials can be produced and
ways may be found of moving them where
there are markets created by human need; for
machinery through which capital may — for
the development of the world's resom-ces and
for the stabilization of economic activity —
move on equitable terms from financially
stronger to financially weaker countries. There
may be need for some special trade arrange-
ment and for international agreements to
handle difficult surplus problems and to meet
situations in special areas.
These are only some of the things that
nations can attempt to do as continuous dis-
cussion and experience instruct the judgment.
There are bound to be many others. But the
new policies shoidd always be guided by cau-
tious and sound judgment lest we make new
mistakes in place of old ones and create new
conflicts.
Building for the future in the economic sphere
thus means that each nation must give sub-
stance and reality to programs of social and
economic progress by augmenting production
and using the greater output for the increase of
general welfare; but not permitting it to be
diverted or checked by special interests, private
or public. It also means that each nation
must play its full part in a system of world
relations designed to facilitate the production
and movement of goods in response to human
needs.
With peace among nations reasonably as-
sured, with political stability established, with
economic shackles removed, a vast fimd of
resources will be released in each nation to meet
the needs of progress, to make possible for all
of its citizens an advancement toward higher
Uving standards, to invigorate the constructive
forces of initiative and enterprise. The nations
of the world will then be able to go forward in
the manner of their own choosing in all avenues
of human betterment more completely than
they ever have been able to do in the past.
They will do so through their own efforts and
with complete self-respect. Continuous self-
development of nations and individuals in a
framework of effective cooperation with others
is the sound and logical road to the highe
standards of life which we all crave and seek.
No nation wiU find this easy. Neither vic-
tory nor any form of post-war settlement will
of itself create a millennium. Rather we shaU
be offered an opportunity to eliminate vast
obstacles and wastes, to make available addi-
tional means of advancing national and inter-
national standards, to create new facilities
whereby the natural resources of the earth
and the products of human hands and brains
can be more effectively utilized for the promo-
tion of human welfare.
To make full use of this opportunity, we
must be resolved not alone to proclaim the
blessings and benefits which we all alilce desire
for humanity but to find the mechanisms by
which they may be most fully and most speedily
attained and be most effectively safeguarded.
The manifold tasks that lie ahead will not
be accomplished overnight. There wdl be need
for plans, developed with careful consideration
and carried fonvard boldly and vigorously.
The vision, the resolution, and the skiU with
which the conditions of peace wiU be estabhshed
and developed after the war wiU be as much a
measure of man's capacity for freedom and
progress as the fervor and determination which
men show in winning the victory.
Without impediment to the fullest prosecu-
tion of the wai- — indeed for its most effective
prosecution — the United Nations should from
time to time, as they cUd in adopting the
Atlantic Charter, formulate and proclaim their
common views regarding fimdamental policies
which win chart for mankind a wise course
based on enduring spiritual values. In support
of such policies an informed public opinion
must be developed. This is a task of intensive
study, hard thinking, broad vision, and leader-
ship— not for governments alone, but for
parents, and teachers, and clergymen, and all
those, within each nation, who provide spirit^
ual, moral, and intellectual guidance. Never
did so great and so compelling a duty in this
respect devolve upon those who are in positions
of responsibility, public and private.
JULY 25, 1942
647
For the immediate present the all-important
issue is that of winning the war — winning it as
soon as possible and winning it decisively.
Into that we must put our utmost effort — now
and every day until victory is won.
A bitter armed attack on human freedom
has aroused mankind to new heights of courage,
determination, and moral strength. It has
evoked a spirit of work, sacrifice, and coopera-
tive effort. With that strength and with that
spirit we shall win.
MUTUAL-AID AGREEMENT WITH YUGOSLAVIA
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT AND THE KING OF YUGOSLAVIA
[Released to the press by the White House July 24]
The King of Yugoslavia, who expects to de-
part shortly from the United States, called on
the President on July 24. After this conversa-
tion the following joint statement was issued :
"In the discussions between the President
and the King in the course of His Majesty's
visit to the United States there has been a gen-
eral review of the relations between the United
States and Yugoslavia, and the problems of
special concern to these two United Nations,
with particular attention to the conduct of the
war.
"His Majesty's visit in this country has been
made the occasion of a demonstration on the
part of the American people of a very special
friendship for the people of Yugoslavia, who
have made such valiant sacrifice in defense of
their cherished freedom and the liberation of
their country.
"We are in complete accord on the fimda-
mental principle that all the resources of the
two nations should be devoted to the vigorous
prosecution of the war; that like the fine
achievements of General Mihailovic and his
daring men, an example of spontaneous and un-
selfish will to victory, our common effort shall
seek every means to defeat the enemies of all
free nations.
"In these discussions, in which Dr. Momtchilo
Nintchitch, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
the Royal Yugoslav Government, has partici-
pated, attention has been given also to the prin-
ciples which should guide our countries in
establishing an enduring and prosperous peace
under a just application of the Declaration by
the United Nations, and the principles of the
Atlantic Charter.
"Accordingly the Foreign Minister of Yugo-
slavia and the Secretary of State have today
signed, on behalf of their Govermnents, an
agreement on the principles applying to mutual
aid in the prosecution of the war, pledging
their material and spiritual resources to a com-
mon victory of the United Nations."
SIGNING OF THE AGREEMENT
[Released to the press July 24]
An agreement between the Government of
the United States and the Royal Yugoslav Gov-
ernment on the principles applying to mutual
aid in the prosecution of the war was signed
on July 24, by Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of
State, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Yugoslavia, Dr. Momtchilo Nintchitch. Yugo-
slavia becomes the tenth country to sign such
an agi-eement with the United States.
The provisions of the agreement with the
Royal Yugoslav Goverimient are the same in
all substantial respects as the provisions of the
agreements heretofore signed between this Gov-
ernment and the Governments of the United
Kingdom, China, the Soviet Union, Belgium,
Poland, the Netherlands, Greece, Czechoslo-
vakia, and Norway. As in the case of the agree-
ments with those countries the agreement with
Yugoslavia was negotiated under the provisions
648
of the Lease-Lend Act of March 11, 1941, which
provides for extending aid to any country
■whose defense is determined by the President
to be vital to the defense of the United States.
The United States and the other govern-
ments which sign such agreements pledge then-
material, as well as their spiritual, resources to
a common victory of the United Nations. All
of these countries are signatories of the Decla-
ration by United Nations.
Text of the Agreement '
Wliereas the Government of the United
States of America and the Royal Yugoslav
Government declare that they are engaged in
a cooperative undertaking, together with every
other nation or people of like mind, to the end
of laying the bases of a just and enduring world
peace securing order under law to themselves
and all nations ;
And whereas the Government of the United
States of Ajnerica and the Royal Yugoslav Gov-
ernment, as signatories of the Declaration by
United Nations of January 1, 1942, have sub-
scribed to a common program of purposes and
principles embodied in the Joint Declaration
made on August 14, 1941 by the President of
the United States of America and the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Brit-
ain and Northern Ireland, known as the Atlan-
tic Charter;
And whereas the President of the United
States of America has determined, pursuant
to the Act of Congress of March 11, 1941, that
the defense of Yugoslavia against aggression
is vital to the defense of the United States of
America ;
And whereas the United States of America
has extended and is continuing to extend to the
Royal Yugoslav Government aid in resisting
aggression ;
And whereas it is expedient that the final
determination of the terms and conditions up-
on which the Royal Yugoslav Government re-
ceives such aid and of the benefits to be
'The text here printed conforms to the signed
original.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
received by the United States of America in
return therefor should be deferred until the
extent of the defense aid is known and until
the progress of events makes clearer the final
terms and conditions and benefits which will be
in the mutual interests of the United States
of America and Yugoslavia and will promote
the establisliment and maintenance of world
peace ;
And whereas the Government of the United
States of America and the Royal Yugoslav
Government are mutually desirous of conclud-
ing now a preliminary agreement in regard to
the provision of defense aid and in regard to
certain considerations which shall be taken into
account in determining such terms and condi-
tions and the making of such an agreement has
been in all respects duly authorized, and all
acts, conditions and formalities which it may
have been necessary to perform, fulfill or exe-
cute prior to the making of such an agreement
in conformity with the laws either of the
United States of America or of Yugoslavia
have been performed, fulfilled or executed as
required ;
The undersigned, being duly authorized by
their respective Governments for that pur-
pose, have agreed as follows :
Article I
The Government of the United States of
America will continue to supply the Royal
Yugoslav Government with such defense arti-
cles, defense services, and defense information
as the President of the United States of Amer-
ica shall authorize to be transferred or pro-
vided.
Aeticle II
The Royal Yugoslav Government will con-
tinue to contribute to the defense of the
United States of America and the strengthen-
ing thereof and will provide such articles,
services, facilities or information as it may be
in a position to supply.
Akticle III
The Royal Yugoslav Government will not
without the consent of the President of the
JULY 25, 1942
649
United States of America transfer title to,
or possession of, any defense article or defense
information transferred to it under the Act
of March 11, 1941 of the Congress of the
United States of America or permit the use
thereof by anyone not an officer, employee, or
agent of the Eoyal Yugoslav Government.
Article IV
If, as a result of the transfer to the Koyal
Yugoslav Government of any defense article
or defense information, it becomes necessary
for that Government to take any action or
make any payment in order fully to protect any
of the rights of a citizen of the United States
of America who has patent rights in and to
any <mch defense article or information, the
Koyal Yugoslav Government will take such ac-
tion or make such payment when requested
to do so by the President of the United States
of America.
Aeticle V
The Koyal Yugoslav Government will return
to the United States of America at the end of
the present emergency, as determined by the
President of the United States of America,
such defense articles transferred under this
Agreement as shall not have been destroyed,
lost or consumed and as shall be determined
by the President to be useful in the defense
of the United States of America or of the
Western Hemisphere or to be otherwise of use
to the United States of America.
Article VI
In the final determination of the benefits to
be provided to the United States of America
by the Koyal Yugoslav Government full cog-
nizance shall be taken of all property, services,
information, facilities, or other benefits or con-
siderations provided by the Royal Yugoslav
Government subsequent to March 11, 1941, and
accepted or acknowledged by the President on
behalf of the United States of America.
Article VII
In the final determination of the benefits to
be provided to the United States of America
by the Eoyal Yugoslav Government in return
for aid furnished under the Act of Congress
of March 11, 1941, the terms and conditions
thereof shall be such as not to burden com-
merce between the two countries, but to pro-
mote mutually advantageous economic relations
between them and the betterment of world-
wide economic relations. To that end, they
shall include provision for agreed action by
the United States of America and the Eoyal
Yugoslav Government, open to participation
by all other countries of like mind, directed to
the expansion, by appropriate international and
domestic measures, of production, employment,
and the exchange and consumption of goods,
which are the material foundations of the
liberty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimi-
nation of all forms of discriminatory treatment
in international commerce, and to the reduction
of tariffs and other trade barriers; and, in
general, to the attainment of all the economic
objectives set forth in the Joint Declaration
made on August 14, 1941, by the President of
the United States of America and the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom.
At an early convenient date, conversations
shall be begun between the two Governments
with a view to determining, in the light of
governing economic conditions, the best means
of attaining the above-stated objectives by their
own agreed action and of seeking the agreed
action of other like-minded Governments.
Article VTII
This Agreement shall take effect as from this
day's date. It shall continue in force until a
date to be agreed upon by the two Governments.
Signed and sealed at Washington in dupli-
cate this twenty-fourth day of July 1942.
For the Government of the United States of
America :
CORDELL Hx^LL
Secretary of State of the
United States of America
For the Royal Yugoslav Government :
Dr. MoMTcniLO Nintchitch
Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Yugoslavia
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
NATIVES AND CITIZENS OF HUNGARY,
RUMANIA, AND BULGARIA IN THE
UNITED STATES
On July 17, 1942, the President issued a proc-
lamation enjoining all natives, citizens, deni-
zens, or subjects of Hungsry, Rumania, and
Bulgaria in the United States "to preserve the
peace towards the United States and to refrain
from crime against the public safety, and from
violating the laws of the United States and of
the States and Territories thereof; and to re-
frain from actual hostility cr giving informa-
tion, aid, or comfort to the enemies of the
United States or interfering by word or deed
with the defense of the United States or the
political processes and public opinions thei-eof ;
and to comply strictly with the regulations
which may be from time to time promulgated
by the President."
The proclamation also contains a regulation
which prescribes that —
"Any native, citizen, denizen, or subject of
Hungary, Rumania, or Bulgaria, of the age of
fourteen years and upward, and not actually
naturalized, who, in the judgment of the At-
torney General or the Secretary of War, as
the case may be, is aiding, or about to aid, the
enemy, or who may be at large to the danger of
the public peace or safety, or who, in the judg-
ment of the Attorney General or the Secretary
of War, as the case may be. is violating, or is
about to violate any regulation adopted and
promulgated by the President, or any criminal
law of the United States or of the States or
Territories thereof, shall be subject to sum-
mary arrest as an alien enemy and to confine-
ment in a place of detention, as may be di-
rected by the President or by any executive
officer hereafter designated by the President
of the United States."
The Attorney General is charged with the
duty of executing the above regulation within
the continental United States, Puerto Rico,
and the Virgin Islands; and the Secretary of
War, in Alaska, the Canal Zone, the Hawaiian
Islands, and the Philippine Islands.
The full text of the proclamation (no. 2563)
is printed in the Federal Register for July 21,
1942, page 5535.
PROCLAIMED LIST: SUPPLEMENT 4 TO
REVISION H
[Released to the press July 20]
The Secretary of State, acting in conjunc-
tion with the Secretary of the Treasury, the
Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce,
the Board of Economic Warfare, and the Co-
ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, on July
20 issued Supplement 4, July 17, 1942, to Re-
vision II of the Proclaimed List of Certain
Blocked Nationals, which was promulgated
May 12, 1942.'
Part I of this supplement contains 239 addi-
tional listings in the other American republics
and 36 deletions; part II contains 97 additional
listings outside the American republics and 7
deletions.
American Republics
RUBBER AGREEMENT WITH ECUADOR
[Released to the press July 21]
Signing of a rubber agreement with the Re-
public of Ecuador was announced on July 21
by the Department of State, the Rubber Reserve
Company, and the Board of Economic Warfare.
Under tlie terms of the agreement, the Rub-
ber Reserve Company will purchase during the
next five years all rubber produced in Ecuador
which is not required for essential domestic
needs.
Ecuador has been producing and exporting
relatively small quantities of rubber. Several
hundred tons which are now in warehouses will
be taken over by the Rubber Reserve Company
under the agreement. It is expected that even-
tually, with development of potential resources,
' 7 Federal Register 5545.
JULY 26, 1942
651
somewhat larger supplies will be available an-
nually from Ecuador.
The Ecuador agreement is the seventh under
the United States program to secure for the
united war effort the maximum possible amount
of rubber produced in the Western Hemisphere.
The other agi-eements, already in effect, are with
Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia,
and Bolivia. Negotiations for similar agree-
ments are proceeding with a number of other
American rubber-producing countries.
Cultural Relations
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF
VENEZUELAN ARCHIVIST
[Released to the press July 20]
Dr. Mariano Picon Salas, Director of the Na-
tional Archives of Caracas, Venezuela, arrived
in Washington on Monday, July 20, for a visit
at the invitation of the Department of State.
He is particularly interested in literature and
education, and his itinerary in the United States
will include visits to many of the country's
leading universities and cultural centers.
Dr. Picon Salas was educated at the Univer-
sity of Chile and was for a number of years
professor of the history of art in the School of
Fine Arts and professor of general literature
in the Pedagogical Institute of that University.
He was also librarian in charge of the catalogue
section of the National Library. In 1936 he
became superintendent of education in Vene-
zuela and in 1937 he was in charge of a dij^lo-
matic mission to Czechoslovakia.
Before assuming his present post Dr. Picon
Salas was director of the Cultural Division of
the Ministry of Education, which corresponds,
in general, to the Division of Cultural Relations
of the Department of State. He is the author
of the outstanding contemporary work on Ven-
ezuelan literary criticism. The Formation and
Development of Venesuelati Literature, and is
known throughout the other American repub-
lics as an editor and critic.
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF
BRAZILIAN HISTORIAN
[Released to the press July 23]
Dr. Dante de Laytano, professor of Amer-
ican history in the University of Porto Alegre,
Brazil, arrived in Washington by plane on
July 22 as a guest of the Department of State.
Dr. de Laytano, an eminent historian, is chief
of the historical archives of Rio Grande do Sul
and edits the quarterly published by the His-
torical Institute of that State. A member of
many learned societies, he is author of a long
list of published books, several of which deal
with studies of Negro life and culture in Brazil.
He has also made numerous investigations
of linguistics in Brazil, especially among cattle-
men and fishermen of the south coast.
The Foreign Service
RESIGNATION OF AMBASSADOR LEAHY
[Released to the press by the White House July 25]
On July 18 Admiral William D. Leahy,
American Ambassador to France, addressed
the following letter to the President :
"In order that my services may be available
at any time to the national defense, I beg to
tender herewith my resignation as Ambassador
to France. I beg you to accept, Mr. President,
my appreciation of the high honor you have
conferred upon me by appointing me to this
important post."
The President sent the following reply to
Admiral Leahy on July 24:
"In calling you to active duty as Chief of
Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the United
States Army and Navy, I accept your resigna-
tion as Ambassador to France. In so doing I
want you to know first of all of my great satis-
faction in the way in which you have carried
out an extremely difficult task at an extremely
difficult time and, second, that there has been
652
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
such good agreement in our national policy in
respect to France during your Ambassador-
ship. In the words of the Navy : 'Well done'."
PERSONNEL CHANGES
[Released to the press July 25]
The following changes have occurred in the
American Foreign Service since July 18, 1942 :
Gilson Blake, of Portland, Oreg., formerly
Second Secretary of Embassy at Rome, Italy,
has been assigned for duty in the Department
of State.
Kenneth A. Byrns, of Greeley, Colo., Third
Secretary of Embassy and Vice Consul at Mex-
ico City, Mexico, has been assigned as Vice
Consul at Veracruz, Mexico.
Reginald Castleman, of Riverside, Calif.,
Consul at Bahia, Brazil, has been assigned as
Consul at Bello Horizonte, Brazil, in order to
open a new office.
William E. Cole, Jr., of Fort Totten, N. Y.,
formerly Third Secretary of Embassy at
Rome, Italy, has been assigned as Vice Consul
at St. John's, Newfoundland.
John B. Faust, of Denmark, S. C, Second
Secretary of Embassy and Consul at Santiago,
Chile, has been designated Second Secretary
of the Legation and Consul at Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, and will serve in dual capacity.
Robert F. Hale, of Portland, Oreg., Vice
Consul at Veracruz, Mexico, has been des-
ignated Third Secretary of Embassy and Vice
Consul at Mexico City, Mexico, and will serve
in dual capacity.
Edward D. McLaughlin, of Little Rock,
Ark., Second Secretary of Embassy and Con-
sul at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has been assigned
as Consul at Para, Brazil.
Augustus Ostertag, of Downington, Pa., Vice
Consul at Basel, Switzerland, has been ap-
pointed Vice Consul at Port-of-Spain, Trini-
dad, British West Indies.
Joseph Ramon Solana, of Asheville, N. C,
has been appointed Vice Consul at Habana,
Cuba.
Orray Taft, Jr., of Santa Barbara, Calif.,
Vice Consul at Mesicali, Mexico, has been as-
signed as Consul at Mexicali, Mexico.
The assignment of Milton Patterson Thomp-
son, of Chattanooga, Tenn., as Vice Consul at
Durango, Mexico, has been canceled. Mr.
Thompson will remain as Vice Consul at
Nuevitas, Cuba.
Earle O. Titus, of North Miami, Fla., Clerk
at Madrid, Spain, has been appointed Vice
Consul at Madrid, Spain.
Jay Walker, of Washington, D. C, consul at
Para, Brazil, has been assigned as Consul at
Bahia, Brazil.
William W. Walker, of Asheville, N. C, Vice
Consid at Colon, Panama, has been assigned
as Vice Consul at Habana, Cuba.
Treaty Information
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
IntemationeJ Telecommunication Convention
Croatia
According to notification no. 407, dated May
16, 1942, from the Bureau of the International
Telecommunication Union at Bern the Lega-
tion of Sixain at Bei'n notified the Bureau by a
letter dated May 5, 1942' that Croatia had ad-
hered, as of July 7, 1941, to the International
Telecommunication Convention and the Regu-
lations annexed thereto signed at Madrid De-
cember 9, 1932.
Haiti
There is quoted below in translation a com-
munication dated March 26, 1912 from the Sec-
retary of State for Foreign Affairs of Haiti to
the Bureau of the International Telecommuni-
JULY 25, 1942
653
cation Union at Bern as it appears in notifi-
cation no. 407 of May 16, 1942 from the Bureau :
"Reptjblic of Haiti
"Letter dated March 26, 1942 from the De-
partment of State for Foreign Affairs at Port-
au-Prince :
" 'Supplementing the letter of October 15,
1940 from the Department of State,^ I regret to
inform you that, on account of the special cir-
cumstances created by the present war in which,
today, it finds itself engaged, the Republic of
Haiti has decided to offer its resignation as a
member of the Bureau of the International
Telecommunications Union.
'"In requesting that acknowledgment be
made of this resignation, which should have full
and entire effect in conformity with the by-laws
of the Union, this Department of State feels
that it must emphasize the fact that the Re-
public of Haiti, while constrained to take such
a decision by the turn of international events,
is none the less happy to have for so long shared
in the work of the International Telecommuni-
cations Union with an ever greater desire to
work for the establisliment of the longed-for
era of good relations and complete solidarity
between States.'
"The Bureau of the Union has acknowledged
receipt of this letter, drawing the attention of
the Department of State for Foreign Affairs
at Port-au-Prince to the provisions of article
10 of the International Telecommunication
Convention."
Article 10 of the convention, which provides
for the denunciation of the convention by the
contracting parties, is as follows :
"1. Each contracting government shall have
the right to denounce the present Convention
' A footnote quotes this letter in which it was stated
that Haiti would have to suspend its payments to the
Union until better times. The Bureau had replied
with a telegram asking contirmation of its under-
standing that such payments would be made later,
with 6 percent interest according to article 17, § 3 (r«)
of the International Telecommunication Convention of
December 9, 1932.
by a notification, addressed, through diplo-
matic channels, to the government of the
country in which was held the conference of
plenipotentiaries that has drawn up the pres-
ent Convention, and aimounced by this
government to all the other contracting
governments, likewise through diplomatic
channels.
"2. This denunciation shall take effect at the
expiration of the period of one year, beginning
with the day on which the notification was re-
ceived by the government of the country in
which the last conference of plenipotentiaries
was held. This effect shall apply only to the
author of the denunciation; the Convention
shall remain in force for the other contracting
governments."
RESTRICTION OF WAR
Convention Relating to the Treatment of
Prisoners of War
Costa Rica
The American Minister at San Jose trans-
mitted to Secretary of State with a despatch
of July 13, 1942 a copy of a decree, published
in La Gaceta of July 12, 1942, authorizing the
Executive Power to declare the adherence of
the Republic of Costa Rica to the Convention
Relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of
War, signed at Geneva July 27, 1929 (Treaty
Series 846).
COMMERCE
Trade Agreement with Uruguay
On July 21, 1942 a trade agreement between
the United States and Uruguay was signed at
Montevideo by the Uruguayan Minister of
Foreign Affairs and the American Ambassador
to Uruguay. It will be printed in the Execu-
tive Agreement Series.
MUTUAL GUARANTIES
Mutual- Aid Agreement with Yugoslavia
The text of an agreement between the Gov-
ernments of the United States and Yugoslavia,
signed July 24, 1942, on the principles applying
to mutual aid in the prosecution of the war,
appears in this Bulletin under the heading
"The War".
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STRATEGIC MATERIALS
Agreement with Ecuador
An announcement, regarding the signature
of an agreement with Ecuador under the terms
of which the Rubber Reserve Company will
purchase rubber produced in Ecuador appears
in this Bulletin under the heading "American
Republics".
Legislation
Preserving the nationality of a person born in Puerto
Rico who resides for 5 years in a foreign state. H.
Kept. 2373, 77th Cong., on H.R. 6165. 3 pp.
Use of the Red Cross emblem and the coat of arms
of the Swiss Confederatiou for commercial purposes.
H. Rept. 2387, 77th Cong., on H.R. 7420. [Incorpo-
rates report, dated April 1, 1942, from the Acting
Secretary of State to the President, recommending
enactment of legislation.] 8 pp.
Publications
Department of State
The Department of State of the United States. Pre-
pared by William Gerber, Division of Research and
Publication. January 1942. 1942. Publication
1744. vi, 91 pp., illus. 200.
International Traffic in Arms: Regulations Issued on
June 2, 1942 by the Secretary of State, Governing
Registration and Licensing Under Section 12 of the
Joint Resolution Approved November 4, 1939 and
Related Laws. 8th ed. Publication 1759. iv, 51 pp.
IOC.
Exchange of Official Publications: Agreement Between
the United States and Panama — Effected by Ex-
change of Notes Signed November 27, 1941 and
March 7, 1942; effective November 27, 1941. Execu-
tive Agreement Series 243. Publication 1760.
7 pp. 5^.
The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals.
Supplement 4, July 17, 1942, to Revision II of May
12, 1942. 1942. Publication 1763. 19 pp. Free.
Diplomatic List, July 1942. Publication 1764. ii, 101
pp. Subsci-iption, $1 a year; single copy, 10(«.
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Vol. VII, No. 161a— Publication 1784
Trade Agreement With Uruguay
Contents Pag,
Analysis of general provisions and reciprocal benefits:
I. Signature of agreement 654c
II. Summary of agreement —
A. Concessions obtained by the United States . 654d
B. Concessions granted by tlie United States . 654d
C. General provisions of the agreement .... 654e
fix. Analysis of individual concessions obtained
on exports of United States products .... 6.546
IV. Analysis of individual concessions on imports
into the United States 654i
V. General provisions and exchanges of notes . . 654p
VI. Tables—
A. Itemized list of tariff concessions obtained
from Uruguay (schedide I) 6543
B. Itemized list of tariff concessions made to
Uruguay (schedule II) 654y
U, 1 SUPWlNTtNbfNT OF OOCUKitN- .
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NOTE
This information lias been prepared by representatives of the Department
of State, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the
Department of the Treasury, and the Tariff Commission. These Govern-
ment agencies, under the reciprocal-trade-agreements program, cooperate
in the formulation, negotiation, and conclusion of all trade agreements
entered into by the United States under the provisions of the Trade Agree-
ments Act of 1934, as extended by joint resolutions of Congress of March
1, 1937 and April 12, 1940.
Trade Agreement With Uruguay
ANA YSIS OF GENERAL PROVISIONS AND RECIPROCAL BENEFITS
[Released to the press July 21]
Signature of Agreement
A reciprocal trade agreement between the
United States and Uruguay, negotiated under
the authority of the Trade Agreements Act,
was signed on July 21 at Montevideo by Wil-
liam Dawson, Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of Amer-
ica to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, and
His Excellency Dr. Don Alberto Guani, Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs of the Oriental Republic
of Uruguay. After formal approval of the
agreement in Uruguay and its proclamation by
the President of the United States, the agree-
ment will enter into force 30 days subsequent
to the exchange of the Uruguayan Govern-
ment's instrument of ratification and the proc-
lamation by the President of the United States.
The text of the agreement will be printed in the
Executive Agreement Series.
The agreement is designed to facilitate trade
between the two countries during the present
emergency as well as to provide a basis for an
expansion of that trade after the war. The re-
ciprocal tariif concessions for which it provides
cover a substantial portion of the normal trade
between them. These concessions include tariff
reductions on specified products; binding of
certain tariff rates against increase; and bind-
ings of specified commodities free of duty. The
general provisions of the agreement provide,
among other things, important assurances
against discriminatory tariff, quota, or exchange
treatment of imports from either country into
the other.
Trade between the United States and Uru-
guay has increased in recent years, except for
a setback in 1938. Total trade between the two
countries, which amounted to $46,922,000 in
1929, fell sharply during depression years to a
low of $5,321,000 in 1932. Total trade had
risen by 1937 to $27,012,000 but dropped again
to $9,811,000 in 1938. It recovered in 1939 and
amounted to $14,558,000., and in 1940, under the
stimulus of the war, it reached $28,904,000.
In the decade prior to 1931 United States
exports to Uruguay were greater, on the aver-
age, than its imports from Uruguay. During
the decade 1931-1940, however, the United
States, on the average, had an import balance
in its trade with Uruguay. During the period
1921-1930 United States exports to Uruguay
averaged $20,351,000 annually, and imports
from Uruguay averaged $14,613,000. During
the period 1931-1940 exports to Uruguay aver-
aged S7, 197,000 and imports from Uruguay,
$7,915,000.
United States exports to Uruguay consist
primarily of manufactured and processed ar-
ticles. Imports from Uruguay, on the other
hand, are chiefly raw materials. Of total ex-
ports of domestic merchandise to Uruguay in
1940, amounting to $11,126,000, iron- and steel-
mill products accounted for $3,473,000; agri-
cultural machinery and implements, $859,000;
automobiles, parts, and accessories, $813,000;
wood and paper products, $492,000; cotton
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yarn, $221,000; radio apparatus, $171,000; leaf
tobacco, $132,000; food products, $167,000; au-
tomatic refrigerators and parts, $105,000; office
appliances and parts, $74,000 ; sulphur, $69,000 ;
and aeronautical apparatus, $59,000. Total
imports for consumption from Uruguay in 1940
were valued at $17,009,000, of which wool ac-
counted for $11,815,000; flaxseed, $2,294,000;
and canned meat, $824,000.
Stjmmary of Agreement
a. concessions obtained by the united states
In the agreement, Uruguayan tariff conces-
sions are obtained on a long list of United
States agricultural and industrial products in-
cluded in 141 Uruguayan tariff items. Exports
of these products from the United States to
Uruguay in 1940 were valued at $2,715,000, or
24.4 percent of total United States exports of
domestic merchandise to Uruguay in that year
which were valued at $11,126,000.
Uruguaj'an import charges are reduced on
81 items. United States exports to Uruguay
in 1940 of products covered by these items were
valued at $1,483,000, or 13.3 percent of the total.
Existing import charges are bound on 47 items
covering commodities of which the United
States exports to Uruguay in 1940 were valued
at $555,000, or 5 percent of the total. The
agreement binds the duty-free status of 13
items, covering products of which the United
States exports to Uruguay in 1940 were valued
at $677,000, or 6.1 percent of the total.
In addition to providing for more favorable
tariff treatment on United States exports to
Uruguay, the provisions of the agreement sim-
plify the procedure for determining the amount
of duty applicable to merchandise imported
into Uruguay upon which concessions are ob-
tained in schedule I. Except for a relatively
small number of items which are dutiable on
an ad valorem basis, Uruguayan basic tariff
rates and various surtaxes are assessed on fixed
official customs valuations which are subject to
periodical revision. Furthermoi-e, the Uru-
guayan tariff law includes a requirement, in
effect since 1931, that 25 percent of the duty
(50 percent in the case of some items) must be
paid in gold or its equivalent in paper currency.
At current rates of exchange the effect of this
requirement is to increase by 41.85 percent the
amount of duty imposed on those items on
which 25 percent of the duty must be paid in
gold and by 83.7 percent the amount imposed
on those items on which 50 percent of the duty
must be paid in gold.
Therefore, the actual amount of the duty im-
posed on a given item must be determined by
applying to the official valuation the rates of
duty and of surtaxes and then calculating the
effect of the gold-payment requirement in in-
creasing the amount of the duty. On items
listed in schedule I of the agreement, however,
the duties are stated in terms of a "total cal-
culated duty" in paper pesos per given unit, so
that the computation previously required is
no longer necessary.
B. CONCESSIONS GRANTED BY THE UNITED STATES
Imports from Uruguay of commodities on
which the United States grants concessions to
that country in schedule II of the agreement
were valued in 1938 at $4,580,000 or 85.5 per-
cent of the value of total imports from Uru-
guay in that year. In 1939 such imports were
valued at $5,042,000 or 58.7 percent of the
total, and in 1940 at $5,376,000 or 31.6 percent
of the total. The proportion declined in 1940
largely because in that year the United States
purchased from Uruguay unusually large
quantities of wool of the finer grades, on which
no concession is made in the agreement. Ex-
cept for unmanufactured agates, all commodi-
ties included in schedule II of the agreement
with Uruguay were included in schedule II of
the agreement with Argentina, effective No-
vember 15, 1941, and the same rates of duty are
provided in both agreements.
Dutiable ite7ns. — In the present agreement the
United States granted concessions on dutiable
commodities, imports of wliich were valued in
1938 at $4,305,000, or 80.4 percent of total United
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States imports from Uruguay in that year. In
1939 such imports were valued at $4,483,000, or
52.2 percent of the total, and in 1940 at $4,765,-
000, or 28.0 percent of the total.
The principal dutiable commodities, by
value, on which concessions are given in sched-
ule II are: Flaxseed; certain prepared or pre-
served meats, principally canned corned beef;
casein; bovine hides and skins; and certain
coarse wools. Other commodities in this group
are: Tallow; oleo oil and oleo stearin; meat
extracts; and glycerin, crude and refined.
Free list. — Commodities bound on the free
list under schedule II include: Unmanufac-
tured agates; dried blood; crude bones, steamed
or ground; bone dust, bone meal, and bone
ash ; animal carbon suitable only for fertilizer ;
tankage; and sausage casings.
C. GENEEAIi PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT
The general provisions of the agreement pro-
vide for the carrying into effect of the tariff
concessions listed in the schedules annexed to
the agreement and define the territory to which
the agreement shall apply. They also con-
tain most-favored-nation provisions assuring
that any tariff concession on any product ac-
corded by either country to any third country
will be extended immediately and without com-
pensation to the other party to the agreement,
exceptions being made regarding special trade
advantages accorded by the United States to
Cuba, and, in an exchange of notes accompany-
ing the agreement, regarding special tariff ad-
vantages accorded by Uruguay to contiguous
countries, Paraguay or Bolivia, by means of
trade agreements embodying tariff reductions
or exemptions.
Moreover, the agreement contains provisions
extending the principle of non-discriminatory
treatment generally to measures relating to
exchange control and import restrictions
which, in the last decade, have characterized
Uruguay's commercial policy. These meas-
ures have involved serious difficulties for
American exporters to Uruguay, and the pro-
visions of the agreement contain valuable
assurances relating thereto.
The exchange provisions of the agreement,
contained in article IV, provide in general that
henceforth imports of any article into either
country from the other shall be accorded, in
regard to restrictions or delays on payments,
rates of exchange, and related charges, treat-
ment no less favorable than that accorded im-
ports of the like article from any third country.
Likewise, article III, relating to quantitative
import restrictions, contains reciprocal assur-
ances of non-discriminatory treatment in the
application by either country to imports from
the other of import quotas, prohibitions, and
other forms of restrictions on imports by pro-
viding that the share of either country in any
allocated quota shall be based upon the pro-
portion of the total imports of the product
subject to quota supplied by the other country
in a previous representative period. However,
because of the loss of Uruguay's markets in
continental Europe and the blocking of the ex-
change created by its exports to the "sterling
area" since the outbreak of hostilities in 1939,
two exchanges of notes in connection with the
agreement except temporarily from the ex-
change and quota provisions of the agreement
special exchange or quota facilities which Uru-
guay may accord to contiguous countries, Para-
guay, Bolivia, or the "sterling area" covered
by the existing pajrments arrangement in effect
between Uruguay and the United Kingdom.
The agreement also contains a provision
whereby consultation between the two Govern-
ments regarding all matters affecting the
operation of the agreement is provided for
through the medium of a mixed commission
consisting of representatives of each Govern-
ment.
. Analysis or iNDiviDUAii Concessions Obtained
ON Exports or United States Products
The following paragraphs contain details of
the concessions obtained on United States ex-
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ports to Uruguay which are included in sched-
ule I of the trade agreement and data on trade
in those items.
Foodstuffs
Because of its geographic and economic sit-
uation Uruguay, with regard to foodstuffs, de-
pends on other countries only for certain
articles of food which those countries are espe-
cially well situated to produce, and for special
preparations and other articles of secondary
importance either not produced in Uruguay or
not produced there in sufficient quantity to
meet that country's requirements. Under nor-
mal conditions, Uruguay imports large quan-
tities of coffee from Brazil; olives and olive oil,
chestnuts, certain canned goods, and sardines
from Spain; sugar, canned fish, salt, and tea
from the United Kingdom; barley, dried milk,
peanuts, and raisins from Argentina; and
prunes, dietetic flours, walnuts, raisins, and
fresh apples from the United States. In 1940
the United States exported about $167,000
worth of foodstuffs to Uruguay, and about
three fourths of this trade is covered by tariff
concessions obtained in the agreement. The
remaining one-fourth consists of miscellaneous
exports which are individually small.
Finiits and nuts. — Among the most important
United States exports of foodstuffs to Uruguay
are prunes, fresh apples, raisins, and walnuts.
The agreement provides for a seasonal reduc-
tion of the import duty ^ on fresh apples by 64
percent from September 1 of each year until
the last day of February of the following year.
This period covers the usual shipping season
for fresh apples exported to Uruguay, which
is also the best selling season there because
few, if any, Uruguayan or Argentine apples are
on the Uruguayan market at that time. The
import duty on prunes is reduced by 30 percent,
and it is believed that this reduction will con-
siderably enlarge the Uruguayan market for
this fruit. The import duty on seedless raisins
' "Import duty" as used in this section of tlie analy-
sis includes the base duty, surtaxes (except certain
minor administrative fees), and any charges arising
from the requirement that a portion of the import
charges be paid in gold pesos.
is lowered by one-half; that on fruit and vege-
table juices, by 47 percent; those on raisins
with seeds, shelled and unshelled walnuts and
pecans, and canned asparagus, by 30 percent;
and that on concentrated grape juice, by 23 per-
cent. Present low rates of duty on hops and
on malted milk are bound against increase.
Canned fish.— The import duty on canned
salmon and mackerel is reduced by 30 percent.
Sardines have been bound at the present mod-
erate duty, and the Uruguayan tariff descrip-
tion has been expanded to include sardines
packed in tomato sauce.
Cigarettes and Tobacco
The import duty on cigarettes is lowered by
30 percent, and the Uruguayan market for this
United States product is expected to increase
as lower prices bring United States cigarettes
within the range of a larger consuming public.
United States exports of cigarettes to Uruguay
during 1940 were valued at $37,000. Unmanu-
factured tobacco will also benefit from the
agreement through the binding of the present
moderate import duty. Exports of United
States tobacco to Uruguay in 1940 were valued
at $132,000.
Automohiles, Parts, and Accessories
The agreement provides for reductions in
Uruguayan duties on passenger cars and chas-
sis, busses and bus chassis, truck chassis, drivers'
cabs for trucks or busses, and certain automo-
bile parts. On other automobile parts and on
accessories the existing favorable customs treat-
ment is bound. In the past, Uruguay has been
an important market for United States auto-
motive products. In recent years, however,
the value of United States exports of these
products to Uruguay has fluctuated widely in
accordance with Uruguay's supply of dollar
exchange. The exchange situation has im-
proved recently. The substantial reductions in
duties on important automotive items are de-
signed to assist the United States automobile
industry to regain its former Uruguayan
market.
Passenger cars and chassis. — The agreement
provides for a reduction of over 20 percent in
TRADE AGREEMENT WITH URUGUAY : ANALYSIS
the duty on passenger cars and chassis. Trade
in these items was formerly large but has de-
clined sharply in recent years. United States
exports of passenger cars and chassis to Uru-
guay in 1940 were valued at $252,000.
Busses, bus chassis, and truck chassis. —
Busses and bus chassis were already dutiable
at very favorable rates prior to the agreement
and these rates are reduced in the agreement
by 29 to 30 percent. Separate trade figures
for busses are not available.
There are practically no United States ex-
ports to Uruguay of trucks complete with
bodies. Most truck bodies used in Uruguay
are made locally and mounted on imported
chassis. The value of United States exports of
busses, bus chassis, and truck chassis to Uru-
guay in 1940 amounted to $236,000.
Automobile parts and accessories. — The
agreement provides for a reduction of 30 per-
cent in the import duty on a specified list of
engine, clutch, transmission, differential, and
steering-gear parts. The generally favorable
duties on the remainder of the parts-and-acces-
sories schedule are bound against increase.
This binding applies to parts and accessories
for trucks, tractors, and busses as well as for
passenger cars. United States exports of these
products to Uruguay were valued at $324,000
in 1940.
Electrical Equipment and Apparatus
Radio apparatus. — Uruguayan industry sup-
plies a very large part of that country's re-
quirements for radio sets. The agreement pro-
vides for a reduction of 30 percent in the
Uruguayan duties on apparatus, parts, tubes,
and accessories (excluding complete sets), and
United States exporters are assured that the
Uruguayan duty on complete sets will not be
increased over the present rate, which is bound
in the agreement.
Exports of United States radio sets to
Uruguay were valued at $52,000 in 1940. Parts
and accessories exported to Uruguay in 1940
were valued at $86,000. Parts have replaced
complete sets as the major item in the trade,
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as Uruguayan assembly operations have been
expanding. The trade in radio tubes has been
fairly well maintained, averaging $31,500 a
year during the last decade and amounting to
$20,000 in 1940.
Automatic refrigerators. — The Uruguayan
duty on automatic refrigerators is lowered by
23 i^ercent, and that on separate refrigeration
mechanisms by 30 percent. The United States
has been the chief supplier of automatic re-
frigerators to the Uruguayan market. There is
some domestic assembly of refrigerators in
Uruguay and the United States has also had
the bulk of the market for separate refrigera-
tion units. In 1940 Uruguay purchased from
the United States complete refrigerators
amounting in value to $78,000 and separate
refrigeration mechanisms valued at $27,000.
Other electrical equipment. — The Uruguayan
duties on electric plants for light and power,
including wind-driven electric-power generat-
ing devices; on storage batteries, including
automobile and radio storagp batteries ; and on
standing or wall electric fans, are reduced by
30 percent.
The trade in storage batteries was formerly
important but has declined. It amounted to
$19,000 in 1940. However the various conces-
sions in the agi-eement on automobiles, radios,
and the batteries themselves make possible an
increase in Uruguayan imports of storage
batteries.
The concessions obtained on electric plants
for light and power and on electric fans should
prove of advantage to United States manufac-
turers, especially manufacturers of the wind-
driven type of electric generating devices.
Machinery and Appliances
Agricultural machinery. — For many years
agricultural machinery has been duty free in
Uruguay and trade in these products has been
important to the United States, which has been
the chief supplier of a number of items. The
duty-free status of tractors of all kinds for
agriculture (as well as of industrial tractors)
is bound. United States exports of tractors
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to Uruguay have had an average annual value
of $329,000 during the last 10 years, and in
1940 these exports were valued at $479,000.
Plows of all kinds are also bound duty-free
for the life of the agi'eement. The value of
plows exported from the United States to Uru-
guay in the last decade has averaged $73,000
a year and in 1940 these exports were valued
at $83,000.
Indmtrial machinery.— The United States
has generally been the chief supplier of Uru-
guayan imports of industrial machinery in the
lighter- weight classification (industrial ma-
chines, n.s.p.f., weighing up to 100 kilograms
each), but not of heavy machinery. The gen-
erally favorable import duties on the lighter-
weight machines, averaging 7 to 10 percent ad
valorem, are bound against increase. Simi-
larly, favorable import duties on certain re-
placement and repair parts for this type of
machinery, of which the United States is the
chief supplier, are bound.
Other important concessions obtained on in-
dustrial machinery are the bindings of the duty-
free status of wheel and track-laying types of
industrial tractors and of windmills and their
accessories and parts. United States exports
of windmills to Uruguay have been an impor-
tant item, valued at $56,000 in 1940.
Oflcf appliances.— A number of concessions
have been obtained on the major items of office
appliances and equipment, including a 30-per-
cent reduction in duties on cash registers and
parts, on standard and portable typewriters,
and on calculating, adding, bookkeeping, and
accounting machines. The duties on parts for
all these machines (except cash registers) are
reduced by 84 percent. The present duty on
steel files (cabinets) and furniture of iron or
steel is bound against increase.
Office machines and appliances have been an
important part of the United States export
trade to Uruguay, although shipments of most
of these machines and parts have declined in
recent years. In 1940 United States exports to
Uruguay included $19,000 worth of cash regis-
ters and parts; $20,000 worth of calculating, add-
ing, bookkeeping, and accomiting machines and
parts; $24,000 worth of standard, and $3,000
worth of portable, typewriters and parts.
ForcM Produ^tn
Z!//«6er.— Outstanding among the conces-
sions obtained are those on United States hard-
wood and softwood lumber. The agreement
provides for a reduction of 50 percent in the
import duty on tea or pitch-pine lumber, sugar-
pine and California white-pine lumber, and
Douglas fir lumber. On oak lumber the duty
is reduced by 30 percent. Thus, lumber prod-
ucts from the southern, the eastern, the western,
and the northwestern portions of the United
States will be able to enter the Uruguayan
market at lower tariffs.
The agi-eement also binds for its duration a
Ui-uguayan decree of June 7, 1940, which pro-
vides that, under certain conditions, materials
for construction, including lumber, will receive
a reduction of one-half the import duty. Fur-
thermore the agreement specifically provides
that this additional reduction of one-half the
duty will be applied to the reduced rate speci-
fied in schedule I for tea pine or pitch pine,
sugar pine and California white pine, and for
Douglas fir. Thus, lumber of these species im-
poi-ted under the conditions specified in the
Uruguayan decree of June 7, 1940, will enter
at a duty 75 percent below the duty in effect
previous to that decree.
United States exports of lumber to Uruguay,
particularly of tea pine or pitch pine, have been
large in the past but have declined in recent
years. Uruguayan concessions in this agree-
ment on certain typical United States lumber
will improve the position of this lumber in the
Uruguayan market. United States exports of
pitch-pine lumber to Uruguay were valued at
$81,000 in 1940, those of sugar pine and Calf-
fornia pine at $18,000. United States exports
of Douglas fir lumber to Uruguay in 1940 were
valued at $1,000 and those of oak lumber at
$5,000.
Cooperage. — The moderate duties on staves,
shooks, and headings of all kinds of wood for
barrels and casks of all sizes and for all pur-
poses are bound against increase. In addition,
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the import duties are lowered by 30 percent on
unassembled barrels and casks up to 500 liters
capacity. Exports of these items from the
United States to Uruguay in 1940 were valued
at $48,000.
Composition hoards. — The import duty is re-
duced by 30 percent on cardboard of wood fiber
for construction; on vulcanized fiber in bars,
sheets, tubes, etc. ; and on cardboard and paper
impregnated with other inaterials including
pastes, chalk, sawdust, and the like. The total
value of United States exports to Uruguay of
these products in 1940 was $6,000.
Paper products. — ^The agreement provides for
a 30-percent reduction in import duties on cer-
tain hygienic paper in rolls, squares, or other
forms. Exports to Uruguay of these items
amounted to $5,000 in 1940.
Naval stores. — Present favorable import du-
ties on gum spirits of turpentine and wood
turpentine and on rosin, gum or wood, dark
and clear, are bound against increase. The
United States formerly enjoyed an extensive
trade with Uruguay in these products but ship-
ments have decreased in recent years, amount-
ing in 1940 to $6,000 for turpentine and $42,000
for rosin.
Aeronautical Apparatus
The present duty-free status of aviation ap-
paratus (aircraft of all kinds), airplane motors,
and parts for replacement and assembly of air-
craft, is bound during the life of the agreement.
Uruguay has not heretofore been a large im-
porter of aeronautical apparatus. In 1940 the
United States sold $59,000 worth of such ap-
paratus to Uruguay.
Chemical and Related Products
The present moderate Uruguayan duty on
sulphur is bound against increase in the agree-
ment. Exports of sulphur from the United
States to Uruguay have not been large in the
past, but $69,000 worth was shipped in 19|0.
The duty on nitrocellulose and pyroxylin
lacquers, typical and important United States
paint products, is reduced by 30 percent. These
products are specifically included, under the
477442 — 42 2
agreement, in a Uruguayan tariff classification
which covers varnish, clear or with the addition
of any coloring matter, whether concentrated
or not.
A 30-percent reduction is also obtained for
medicinal petroleum jelly; for liquid insecti-
cides with a base of pyrethrum or of ethers
and hydrocarbides ; and for composition-
coated roofing paper. The existing rate on cer-
tain liquid roofing compounds is bound against
increase.
The United States is generally the chief sup-
plier of Uruguayan imports of nitrocellulose
or pyroxylin lacquers, medicinal petroleum
jelly, liquid insecticides, and roofing compounds
and paper.
Cotton Yarns
The moderate Uruguayan duties on cotton
yarns, both crude and colored, are bound
against increase. The United States has, in
the past, sold large quantities of such yarns
in Uruguay. Exports of both kinds of
yarn have decreased in recent years. United
States shipments of crude yarn to Uruguay in
1940 were valued at $54,000, and those of
colored yarns at $150,000.
Motion-Picture Films
The Uruguayan import duty on exposed mo-
tion-picture films, including positives and nega-
tives, is reduced by 30 percent. United States
shipments of films to Uruguay have been fairly
well maintained and were valued at $35,000
in 1940. The United States has long been
Uruguay's chief supplier of motion-picture
films.
Analysis of iNnrvrouAL Concessions on Im-
ports Into the United States
Details of the concessions granted by the
United States to Uruguay on products listed
in schedule II of the agreement, and informa-
tion on the trade, production, and consumption,
and prices of these products, are given in the
following paragraphs. Numbers in parentheses
refer to paragraphs in the Tariff Act of 1930.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN: JULY 25, 1942, SUPPLEMENT
Casein or Lactarene at\d Mixtures of Which
Casein or Lactarene Is the Component
Material of Chief Value, Not Specially
Provided for (par. 19)
The duty on casein or lactarene under the
Tariff Act of 1930 was 51/2 cents per pound.
Under the act of 1922 it was 21/2 cents per
pound. Under the trade agreement with
Uruguay, as in that with Argentina which
became effective November 15, 1941, the duty
is reduced to 2% cents per pound. The ad-
valorem equivalent of the Si/o-cent rate has
ranged in recent years from about 80 percent
to about 110 percent. On the basis of imports
in 1939 the reduced rate of 2% cents per pound
would have been equal to about -19 percent ad
valorem.
The volume of United States casein produc-
tion is determined in part by the price of
casein but more largely by total production of
whole milk and the proportions of that produc-
tion marketed as fluid milk and used in the
manufacture of creamery butter, cheese, and
condensed and evaporated milk. Casein is a
by-product of the skim-milk derived from the
manufacture of creamery butter and normally
the greater portion of this skim-milk is used
in feeding livestock rather than in producing
casein. Moreover when a larger proportion
of total milk production is diverted from manu-
facture of butter into the manufacture of
cheese and of dried and condensed milk, the
quantity of skim-milk available for manufac-
ture of casein is reduced.
In the period 1931-1940 imports of casein
into the United States ranged from 417,000
pounds in 1938 to 24,523,000 pounds in 1940,
with an annual average of 8 million pounds
for the period. These impoi-ts accounted for
less than 1 percent of consumption in 1938 and
for about 33 percent in 1940. Uruguay was
second to Argentina in 1940 and in the first 6
months of 1941 as a supplier of casein imports
into the United States.
In the period 1929-1940 the average price
per pound of 20-30-mesh domestic casein
(f.o.b. plant in 5-ton lots) decreased from
15.4 cents in 1929 to 6.2 cents in 1932 and then
increased to 16.5 cents in 1936, the peak year
of the period. The price was 19.8 cents on
May 16, 1941, and 20.8 cents as of May 15, 1942.
Glycerin, Cnide ami Refined {par. 4^)
The duty on crude glycerin from countries
other than Cuba was 1 cent per pound under
the act of 1930 and was reduced to %o cent
per pound under the trade agreement with
France, effective June 15, 1936. The duty on
imports from Cuba was reduced from %o cent
to tio cent per pound in the Cuban agreement,
effective September 3, 1934. The ad-valorem
equivalent of the duty on crude glycerin from
countries other than Cuba was 10 percent in
1939. The rate of %(, cent per pound is bound
in the agreement with Uruguay, as it is in the
agreement with Argentina.
Tlie duty on refined glycerin under the act
of 1930 was 2 cents per pound and was reduced
to 1% cents per pound in the agreement with
the Netherlands, effective February 1, 1936.
It was automatically reduced to iyi5 cents per
pound by the reduction in the duty on crude
glycerin in the agreement with France. The
duty of V/is cents per pound is bound in the
agreement with Uruguay, as it was in the
agi-eement with Argentina. The ad-valorem
equivalent of the duty on refined glycerin was
17 percent in 1939.
Crude glycerin is a by-product of the soap
and fatty-acids industries and its production
has ordinarily depended in large part upon the
production of those commodities. It is, how-
ever, a vital ingredient of essential war ma-
terials and requirements for glycerin in 1942
are expected to exceed even the record 1941
production. Furthermore, about one-fourth
of the United States consumption of glycerin
was formerly obtained from coconut oil im-
ported from the Philippine Islands.
In the 6-year period 1935-1940 United States
production of crude glycerin ranged between
141 million pounds in 1935 and 197 million
pounds in 1940; the annual average for the
peri6d was 168 million pounds. Production of
refined glycerin in that period ranged from a
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654k
low of 123 million pounds in 1935 to a high of
162 million pounds in 1940. The annual aver-
age for tlie period was 142 million pounds.
In 1935-1940, imports of crude glycerin
varied from 8.2 million pounds in 1935 to 13.4
million pounds in 1937, and averaged about 11
million pounds per year. Imports of refined
glycerin in the same period ranged between
69,000 pounds in 1935 and 7.5 million iMunds
in 1937, averaging about 2.4 million pounds.
Entries of refined glycerin amounted to 330,000
pounds in 1939 and 298,000 pounds in 1940.
Exports of glycerin, reported as "alcohols:
glycerin", consist chiefly of refined glycerin
and, since 1937, have exceeded imports.
Uruguay was the fourth country in impor-
tance as a supplier of crude glycerin in 1940,
furnishing 8.5 percent of the United States im-
ports, and third in the first 6 months of 1941,
furnishing 9.3 percent.
Tallow, Oleo Oil, and Oleo Stearin {par. 701)
Imports of tallow, oleo oil, and oleo stearin
are dutiable under the act of 1930 and since
1936 have also been subject to an import tax
under the Internal Revenue Code. Reductions
in both the tariff and the import tax are made
in the agreements with Uruguay and with
Argentina and may be summarized as follows:
[In cents per pound)
Previous to trade agree-
ment
Under trade agreement
Commodity
Tarifl
duty
Import
tax
Com-
bined
duty
and tax
Tarifl
duty
Import
tai
Com-
bined
duty
and tax
Tallow:
EdiWe
a
1
1
3
3
3
3
3K
3M
4
4
H
H
1?4
Inedible
Oleo oil
m
2
Oleo stearin
2
The ad-valorem equivalent of the combined
duty and import tax on inedible tallow was 61
percent in 1938, 120 percent in 1939, and 111
percent in 1940. On the basis of the 1939 im-
ports the ad-valorem equivalent of the agree-
ment rates would have been 60 percent. Prac-
tically all imports of tallow in the past 3 years
have been of the indelible type. The ad-valorem
equivalent of the combined duty and tax on
oleo stearin was 107 percent in 1938 and 75
percent in 1939. On the basis of the new agree-
ment rate and the 1939 imports, the ad-valorem
equivalent would have been 37 percent. Im-
ports of oleo products have been chiefly of oleo
stearin.
Tallow. — Imports of tallow into the United
States are very small in comparison with do-
mestic production, consumption, and exports.
Since 1929 imports have been exceeded by
United States exports except in the years when
the 19.34 and 1936 droughts drastically reduced
domestic production of tallow, lard, and
greases. Domestic production of tallow de-
creased from 667 million pounds in 1934 to 466
million in 1935. In 1940 it had risen to 790
million pounds of which 79 million pounds was
edible tallow.
Imports of tallow into the United States
averaged approximately 14 million pounds a
year in 1927-1929, and increased to 43 million
pounds in 1934 and to 246 million in 1935.
These increases were due not only to the effects
of the drought but also to the imposition by
the United States of import taxes on certain
other competing oils, particularly palm and
whale oils. In 1936 importations declined to
79 million pounds, of which 76 million entered
before the import tax became effective in
August. Since that time imports of all kinds
of tallow have been very small and practically
no edible tallow has entered since 1938. In the
first 6 months of 1941 Uruguay, led by Argen-
tina and Canada, ranked third as a supplier
of imports of tallow into the United States.
Oleo oil atid. oleo sfeann. — About two-thirds
of the United States production of oleo prod-
ucts usually is oleo oil. - Imports of these
products ordinarily are small in comparison
with domestic production.
In 1936 domestic production of oleo oil and
oleo stearin was 147 million pounds — the high-
est in any year since 1930 — and imports
amounted to 5 million pounds. In 1937 domes-
tic production declined, largely because of the
effects of the 1934 and 1936 droughts, but re-
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN: JCLT 25, 1942, SUPPLEMENT
covered in 1938 to reach an average of about
127 million pounds for 1937-1938. Imports in
1937 were 3,700,000 pounds but dropped in 1938
to 400,000 pounds. In 1939 domestic produc-
tion of oleo products amounted to 114 million
pounds and in 1940 to 105 million pounds. Im-
ports of oleo stearin since 1937 have been negli-
gible and there have been almost no imports of
oleo oil. The United States is on an export
basis for oleo products. Uruguay has usually
been second to Argentina as a supplier of oleo
stearin.
Extract of Meat, Including Fluid {par. 705)
Under the Tariff Act of 1930, meat extract
was dutiable at 15 cents per pound. This rate
was bound in the agreement with the United
Kingdom, effective January 1, 1939. Under
the agreements with Uruguay and with Argen-
tina the duty is reduced to 71/2 cents per pound.
In the 6-year period 1935-1940 the ad-valorem
equivalent of the duty on meat extract ranged
from 33 percent in 1936 to 39 percent in 1939.
At the agreement rate and on the basis of 1939
imports, the ad-valorem equivalent would have
been 19 percent. Domestically produced meat
extracts are more highly processed and higher
priced than the imported product. Total im-
ports of meat extracts into the United States
amounted to 1,213,000 pounds in 1939 and to
.582,000 pounds in 1940. Uruguay and Argen-
tina are the principal suppliers.
Meats, Prepared or Preserved, Not Specially
Provided for {Except Meat Pastes Other
Than Liver Pastes Packed in Airtight Con-
tainers Weighing With Their Contents Not
More Than 3 Ounces Each) {par. 706)
Under the Tariff Act of 1930, meats in this
category (chiefly canned corned beef and
pickled or cured beef and veal) were dutiable
at 6 cents per pound but not less than 20 percent
ad valorem. Under the act of 1922 such im-
ports were dutiable at 20 percent ad valorem.
In the agreement with Uruguay this duty is 3
cents per pound but not less than 20 percent ad
valorem. The same concession -was included
in the agreement with Argentina. The ad-
valorem equivalent of the duty on caimed beef
was 60 percent in 1939. On the basis of 1939
imports and the new agreement rate, it would
have been 30 percent. The ad-valorem equiva-
lent of the duty on pickled or cured beef and
veal was 84 percent in 1939 and on the basis of
the 1939 imports and the new agreement rates
it would liave been 42 percent.
Domestic production of heef and veal com-
pared with imports.— In 1929, before the duty
of 6 cents per pound was imposed, imports of all
beef and veal, of which canned beef usually
constitutes some 98 percent, equalled about 3.8
percent of domestic production. In 1932 this
percentage had declined to 1 percent. In the
5 years 1935-1939 it averaged 2.7 percent and
in 1940 was about 2 percent. Imports of the
beef and veal to which the concession applies
(converted to a dressed-weight basis) were
equal to an annual average of about 2.6 percent
of domestic beef and veal production during
the years 1935-1939, and about 1.9 percent in
1940'
Canned heef. — Canned corned beef is the
principal commodity included in the conces-
sion. United States production of canned beef
in recent years has been relatively small and is
principally of beef specialities other than
corned beef. Nearly all corned beef canned in
the United States has been for Government
contracts. Much of the domestic beef of the
type formerly canned has been used in the
manufacture of sausage, a more profitable out-
let, and civilian demand for canned corned beef
has been filled by tlie imported product.
Imports of canned beef into the United
States amounted to about 80 million pounds in
1929, when a period of low cattle production
in the United States culminated. Such im-
ports fell sharply to 19.5 million pounds in
1931 and increased to 88 million pounds in
each of the years 1936 and 1937. Entries
amounted to 78.6 million pounds in 1938, to
85.9 million in 1939, to 61.3 million in 1940 and
to 39.1 million pounds in the first 6 months
of 1941. Uruguay was the j>rincipal source of
imports of canned beef into the United States
for many years, but since 1937 it has been
second to Argentina.
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654m
B<ief and veal. jnckUd or cured. — ^Pickled or
cured beef and veal are relatively inexpenave
and especially adapted for use as ships' stores,
and where refrigeration facilities are inade-
quate. Domestic production of such meat,
chiefly beef, is from types and grades generally
used for sausage.
Imports of pickled or cured beef and veal
are very small as compared -with domestic pro-
duction and are smaller than United .States
exports. In 1939, the latest year for which
figures are available, domestic production was
68.4: million pounds. In that year exports
amounted to 7.4 million pounds and imports
to 2.2 million. In 1940 exports totaled 8.0
million pounds and imports 1.4 million pounds.
Uruguay is by far the principal source of
imports into the United States, having supplied
more than half of all United .States imports
in every year since 1931, 71 percent in 1939. 68
percent in 1940. and 90 percent in the first 6
months of 1941.
Car:T>A,d rrt^jiU. not ehewKere ".fecrif-ed. and
■prefared or yreierved m^aU. not ipecially pro-
vided for. — Imports reported tmder this classi-
fication consist almost entirely of meat special-
ties and have been relatively unimportant,
amounting to 169,000 potmds in 1939 and to
62,000 pounds in 1940. United States exports
of products in this classification are greatly in
excess of imports and consist chiefly of high-
priced specialties.
Phxieed {pen: 7€2)
Under the Tariff Act of 1913 flaxseed was
dutiable at 20 cents per bushel ; imder the act
of 1921, at 30 cents; under the art of 1922, at
40 cents: under Presidential proclamation of
June 13, 1929, at 56 cents ; and under the Tariff
Act of 1930, at 6.5 cents. Under the act of 1930
the ad-valorem equivalent was 57 percent in
1939.
Under the trade agreement with Uruguay, as
in that with Argentina, the rate is 32% cents
per bushel for the duration of the existing ab-
normal situation in the flaxseed trade. Thirty
days after the President shall have proclaimed
that the abnormal trade situation has termi-
nated, the rate of duty shall become 50 cents
per bushel. Under the agreement rate of 32^4
cents per bushel the ad-valorem equivalent, on
the basis of 1939 imports, would have been 28
percent and under the 50-cent duty it would
have been 43 percent.
Flax-seed is used almost exclusively in the
manufacture of linseed oil, an essential ingre-
dient of many paints, varnishes, floor cover-
ings, and other products. Building and indus-
trial operations, including produrtion for mil-
itary purposes, involving the use of linseed oil,
are at high levels. At the same time imports
of tung oil, perilla oil, and synthetic resins for
which linseed oil may sometimes be substituted,
have been interrupted.
United States flaxseed requirements for 1942
are estimated at record levels and dwnestic pro-
durtion has never been equal to domestic re-
quirements even in normal times. United
States production of flaxseed reached a record
low point of 5,273,000 bushels in 1936 at the
end of a decline caused in large part by unfavor-
able weather and disease conditions. Since
that time such conditions have improved and
the relation between flaxseed prices and wheat
prices has been favorable to the former. Under
these and other influences, flaxseed acreage in
the United States increased and produrtion rose
to 30,886,000 bushels in 1940, and to 31,485,000
bushels in 194L
Imports of flaxseed declined from 2i224J0OO
bushels in the year beginning July 1, 1926, to
6i!l3,000 bushels in the year beginning July 1,
1932. They rose again to 26,096,000 bushels
in 1936-37 and declined to 13,212,000 bushels in
1939-40 and to 11,198,000 bushels in 1940-41.
The percentage of United States flaxseed crush-
ings supplied by imports averaged 55 percent
during the 10 years 1930-39 and in 1940 amount-
ed to 31 percent.
The annual average price of flaxseed (Min-
neapolis no. 1) was $1.73 a bushel in the crop
year 1935-36, and $1.65 per bushel in the crop
year 1939-40. In April 1941 the average price
was S1.93 per bushel and in April 1942 it was
$2.62 per busheL
Uruguay has been second to Argentina as a
supplier of flaxseed imports since 1937, supply-
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN: JULY 25, 1942, SUPPLEMENT
ing 5.8 percent of United States imports in
1938, 4.1 percent in 1939, and 15.9 percent in
1940. Substantial quantities of flaxseed pro-
duced in Uruguay are exported from Argen-
tina and are credited to Argentina in United
States statistics of imports.
Wools Not Finer Than IfiPs {par. 1101 (a) ) :
and Wools Not Specially Provided for Not
Finer Than H's {par. 1102 {a) )
Under the Tariff Act of 1930 (par. 1101 (a) ),
wools not finer than 40's, and not imported
under bond for the manufacture of carpeting
and certain other specified articles, were duti-
able at the following rates per pound of clean
content: washed or in the grease, 24 cents; on
the skin, 22 cents; sorted or matchings if not
scoured, 25 cents ; and scoured, 27 cents. Under
the agreement with Uruguay as in that with
Argentina, each of these rates is 11 cents be-
low the rate provided in the Tariff Act of
1930. The great bulk of the wools entering
under this classification are entered in the
grease. The ad-valorem equivalent of the duty
was SB percent in 1939. The reduced duties
would have been equivalent to 48 percent ad
valorem on the basis of the 1939 imports.
Under the act of 1930 (par. 1102 (a)), wools
not specially provided for and not finer than
44's, i.e. 40's/44's, were dutiable at the follow-
ing rates per pound of clean content: washed
or in the grease, 29 cents ; on the skin, 27 cents ;
sorted or matchings if not scoured, 30 cents;
and scoured, 32 cents. Under the agreement
with Uruguay as in that with Argentina, each
of these rates is 12 cents below the rate pro-
vided in the Tariff Act of 1930. On the basis
of 1939 imports the ad-valorem equivalent of
the duties was 90 percent and the ad-valorem
equivalent of the reduced duties would have
been 53 percent. The great bulk of the wools
entering under this classification also are
entered in the grease.
The concession in the agreement with Uru-
guay on wools covered by paragraph 1101 (a)
includes all types not finer than 40's, not used
in the manufacture of carpets and certain other
specified articles. These wools are used chiefly
in the manufacture of tweeds or sports clothing,
lower-priced overcoatings, blankets, and felts,
but are sometimes blended with carpet wools
in the manufacture of carpets. The wools cov-
ered by paragraph 1102 (a) are apparel (cloth-
ing and combing) wools finer than 40's but not
finer than 44's. These wools are of higher
grade than the non-carpet types provided for
under paragraph 1101 (a) but are used for the
same general purposes.
More than 99 percent of United States wool
production is of the finer types of wool not
covered by the concessions. Production of even
the finer types is generally considerably less
than this country's requirements for domestic
consumption, and the total United States wool
clip is far below the usual domestic consump-
tion when carpet wools are included. In the
period 1930-1939 United States mill consump-
tion of all wool averaged about 665 million
pounds (grease basis) per year, while domestic
production of shorn wool averaged about 366.5
million pounds per year during the same pe-
riod. In 1940 domestic production was 387.8
million pounds and mill consumption 778.3
million pounds. In 1941 domestic wool pro-
duction amounted to 445 million pounds, or
less than half the record mill consumption of
977 million pounds in that year.
The only production of true carpet wools in
the United States is about 100,000 pounds a
year, shorn from flocks owned by Indians in
the Southwest. Practically the entire United
States demand for such wools is supplied by
imports, which have averaged nearly 96 million
pounds a year during the years 1935-1940.
Domestic production of wools other than carpet
wools, but not finer than 40's, is also relatively
small, the estimated annual average being
about 2 million pounds as compared with aver-
age imports of over 16 million pounds a year
during the period 1935-1940. United States
annual average production of 40's/44's is esti-
mated at about 4 million pounds, while imports
of these types averaged 4.7 million pounds in
the 6 years 1935-1940.
Thus less than 1 percent of United States
wool production is of the types affected by the
concession in the agreements with Uruguay
TRADE AGREEMENT WITH URUGUAY : ANALYSIS
654o
and Argentina, and domestic production of Entries of wools of the types on which the
those types has been decreasing for a number concession applies, for the years 1935-1940,
of years. have been as follows:
[1,000 poands—cleaD content]
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
Not finer than 40's --
11, 549
3,821
23, 635
6,960
19, 786
7,062
9,656
1,799
16, 911
4,685
15, 584
40's/44's
3,894
Total wools ^
15, 370
30, 595
26, 848
11, 455
21, 596
19, 478
Uruguay was the principal supplier of these
40's/44;'s wools imported into the United States
in 1936 and New Zealand from 1937 through
1939. Uruguay and Argentina have been im-
portant suppliers in recent years when they
were not the chief sources.
Hides and Skins of Cattle of the Bovine Species
{Except Hides and Skins of the India
Water Buffalo Imported To Be Used in the
Manufacture of Rawhide Articles), Raw or
Vncured, or Dried, Salted, or Pickled {par.
leSO (a))
From 1909 to 1930 United States imports of
hides and skins of all kinds were free of duty.
Under the act of 1930, hides and slrins of cat-
tle of the bovine species (excepting hides and
skins of the India water buffalo imported to
be used in the manufacture of rawhide articles)
were dutiable at 10 percent ad valorem. Un-
der the agreements with Uruguay and with
Argentina, the rate on the dutiable bovine
hides and skins is 5 percent ad valorem.
Bovine hides produced in the United States
are of two main types of grades — packer hides,
of the better quality, and country hides, of a
poorer quality. Much of the domestic produc-
tion is of the poorer quality, whereas the better
grade predominates in imports. Tanners in
this country demand the better grades of which
the domestic supply is supplemented by im-
ports. At the same time many domestic hides
of the poorer quality find no domestic market
and are normally exported from the United
States.
Demand for beef and veal, rather than de-
mand for hides, regulates slaughter of cattle
and calves in the United States, and the cor-
responding production of hides. Hence
changes in demand and supply of hides are
frequently reflected in sharp changes in volume
of imports, and in ratio of imports to domestic
production. Quantity of domestic production,
being governed principally by the market for
meat, is very little affected by volume of hide
imports. Volume of imports, on the other
hand, is very strongly influenced by the quan-
tity of domestic production.
From 1935 through 1940, average annual
production of bovine hides of all kinds in the
United States amounted to 28.3 million hides,
of which 12.3 million were calf and kip skins
and the rest cattle hides. During the same
period, annual average imports of bovine hides
amounted to 6 million hides (pieces) of which
3 million were calf and kip skins. Uruguay is
an important supplier of both cattle hides and
calf and kip skins. Annual United States ex-
ports of domestic cattle hides averaged about
1 million hides of which about 50 percent were
calf and kip skins.
Free List
The agreement with Uruguay binds on the
free list imports of certain commodities that
are either not produced at all in the United
States or not produced in quantities sufficient
to supply domestic demand. All these com-
modities, listed below, except unmanufactured
agates, are also bound free in the agreement
with Argentina.
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Article
Sheep, lamb, and goat casings-
Tankage (not for fertilizer) "
Crude bones, bone dust, bone meal, etc
Sausage casings other than sheep, lamb,
and goat
Dried blood
Tanliage (for fertilizer)
Integuments, etc., not sausage casmgB--
Unmanuf actured agates
Valuft of im-
ports in 1940
$7, 077, 000
1, 809, 000
1, 481, 000
854, 000
429, 000
375, 000
12, 000
4,000
•Also bound on the free list in tl«"f<ie agreement with Turkey.
'Also bound on the free list in the trade agreement with the Unitea
Kingdom.
General Provisions and Exchanges of Notes
The general provisions of the agreement em-
body the basic principle of equality of
treatment essential to the development of in-
ternational trade upon a sound and non-dis-
criminatory basis. They define the nature of
the obligations assumed by each country in
making tariff concessions to the other, set forth
reciprocal assurances of non-discriminatory
treatment with respect to all forms of trade
control, and contain provisions relating to
various other matters affecting the trade be-
tween the two countries.
Provisions Relating to Treatment of Trade in
General
Article I provides that the United States and
Uruguay shall in general accord to each other
unconditional most-favored-nation treatment
with respect to customs duties and related
matters, including methods of levying duties
and charges and the application of rules and
formalities. This means that each country
obligates itself to extend to the other, immedi-
ately and without compensation, the lowest
rates of customs duties which are granted to
any other country, either by autonomous action
or in connection with a commercial agreement
with a third country.
Article II of the agreement relates to the im-
position of internal taxes or charges levied in
either country on products imported from the
other and provides that such taxes or charges
shall not in general be higher than those im-
posed on like articles of domestic or other f or-
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eign origin. An exception is made in the case of
taxes imposed by the Uruguayan Government
on pharmaceutical specialties, toilet and per-
fumery products, cigarettes, cigars, fortified
wines, vermuth, champagne, matches, and
playing cards, which, if of foreign origin, are
taxable at a higher rate than are the domestic
products.
Article III applies in general the principle
of non-discriminatory treatment to import
quotas, prohibitions, and other forms of re-
striction on imports. Any such restriction is
to be based upon a pre-determined amount of
imports of the article, i. e., a global quota. If
either country establishes such restrictions and
if any third country is allotted a share of the
total amount of permitted importations of any
article, the other country shall also be allotted a
share which shall be based upon the proportion
of the total imports of such article which that
country supplied in a previous representative
period.
Article IV extends in general the principle
of non-discriminatory treatment to any form
of exchange control by either country over the
transfer of payments for imports originating
in the other country. Accordingly, the article
provides that the Government of either coun-
try shall accord to any product originating in
the other country, in regard to restrictions or
delays on payments, exchange rates, and taxes
or charges on exchange transactions, treatment
no less favorable than that accorded the like
product originating in any third country.
Article V extends the principle of non-dis-
criminatory treatment to foreign purchases by
the Government of either country or by govern-
ment monopolies.
Article VI provides for the prompt publi-
cation of laws, regulations, and administrative
and judicial decisions relating to the classifica-
tion of articles for customs purposes or to
rates of duty. With certain customary excep-
tions relating to anti-dumping duties, health or
public-safety measures, etc., the article also pro-
vides that no administrative ruling by either
country effecting advances in rates of duties or
in charges applicable under an established and
TRADE AGREEMENT WITH URUGUAY : ANALYSIS
654q
uniform practice to imports originating in the
other country, or imposing any new require-
ment with respect to such importations, shall
be effective retroactively or with respect to
articles imported prior to the expiration of
30 days after the date of publication of notice
of such ruling in the usual official manner.
Provisions Relating to Concessions
Articles VII and VIII of the agreement re-
late to the tariff concessions granted by each
country on products of the other and provide
that products included in the schedules annexed
to the agreement shall, upon importation into
the other country, be exempt from ordinary
customs duties higher than those specified in
the schedules and from all other charges in con-
nection with importation in excess of those
imposed on the day of signature of the agree-
ment or required to be imposed thereafter by
laws in force on that day.
Article IX permits either country, notwith-
standing the provisions of articles VII and
VIII, to impose on any product imported from
the other country an import charge equivalent
to an internal tax imposed on a similar do-
mestic product or on any article from which
the imported product has been made.
Article X safeguards importers against ad-
verse changes in the methods of determining
dutiable value and of converting currencies in
connection with products listed in the schedules
which are or may be subject to id-valorem
rates of duty.
Article XI contains a general undertaking
that no quantitative restrictions shall be im-
posed by either country on importations from
the other country of any of the products listed
in the schedules annexed to the agreement, with
a reservation that this provision does not apply
to quantitative restrictions imposed by either
country in conjunction with governmental
measures which operate to regulate or control
the production, market supply, or prices of like
domestic articles, or which tend to increase the
labor costs of production of such articles, or
which are necessary to maintain the exchange
value of the currency of the country.
Article XII contains a provision for broad
consultation between the Governments of the
two countries in regard to all matters affecting
the operation of the agreement through the
medium of a mixed commission to be estab-
lished under the terms of paragraph 2 of the
article. Paragraph 1 of the article provides
that if the Government of either country con-
siders that an industry or the commerce of that
country is prejudiced, or any object of the
agreement is nullified or impaired as a result of
any circumstance or of any measure taken by
the other Government, the latter Government
shall consider such representations or proposals
as may be made by the former Government;
and if agreement is not reached, the Govern-
ment making the representations or proposals
shall be free to suspend or terminate the agree-
ment in whole or in part on 30 days' written
notice.
Provisions as to Application of the Agreement
Article XIII provides that the agreement
shall apply, on the part of the United States,
to the continental United States and to the ter-
ritories and possessions included in its customs
territory, the most important of which are
Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. The most-
favored-nation provisions of the agreement
will, however, apply also to those possessions
of the United States which have separate
tariffs, including the Philippines, the Virgin
Islands of the United States, American Samoa,
and the island of Guam.
Article XIV excepts from the application of
the agreement special advantages granted by
the Government of either country to adjacent
countries to facilitate frontier traffic, and ad-
vantages accorded to any third country as a
result of a customs union. There is also in-
cluded the usual exception relating to special
advantages accorded by the United States and
its territories and possessions or the Panama
Canal Zone to one another or to the Eepublic
of Cuba.
Furthermore, in an exchange of notes accom-
panying the agreement the Government of the
United States agrees not to invoke the provi-
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sions of article I of the agreement in respect
of any tariff preferences which Uruguay may
accord to contiguous countries, Bolivia, or Par-
aguay looking to tlie gradual and ultimate
achievement of a customs union between Uru-
guay and any such country; provided such
tariff preferences conform to the formula rec-
ommended by tlie Inter-American Financial
and Economic Advisory Committee on Septem-
ber 18, 1941, pursuant to resolution LXXX of
the Seventh International Conference of Amer-
ican States at Montevideo, approved December
24, 1933. This formula stipulates: (1) That
any such tariff preferences shall be made effec-
tive through trade agreements embodying tariff
reductions or exemptions; (2) that the parties
to such agreements should reserve the right to
reduce or eliminate the customs duties on like
products imported from other countries; and
(3) that any such tariff arrangements should
not be an obstacle to any broad program of
economic reconstruction involving the reduction
of tariffs and the scaling down or elimination
of tariff and otlier trade preferences with a view
to the fullest possible development of interna-
tional trade on a multilateral unconditional
most-favored-nation basis. Tlie note also pro-
vides, with reference to articles III and IV of
the agreement relating to quantitative limita-
tions on imports and exchange control, respec-
tively, that any special quota or exchange
facilities which Uruguaj- may accord to con-
tiguous countries, Bolivia, or Paraguay shall
cease upon the termination of the present world
conflict, except as may be otherwise agreed
upon between the two Governments.
By a second exchange of notes, the Govern-
ment of the United States agrees not to invoke
the provisions of the agreement relating to non-
discriminatory treatment in respect of special
facilities which Uruguay may accord to im-
ports of articles originating in the so-called
"sterling area" covered by the existing pay-
ments arrangement in effect between Uruguay
and the United Kingdom. As indicated in the
note from the Uruguayan Government, the
reason for this exception arises primarily from
the inability of Uruguay to convert freely into
dollars the proceeds derived from its exports
to the "sterling area" under the existing pay-
ments arrangement in effect between Uruguay
and the United Kingdom. Accordingly the
note provides that the exception shall terminate
as soon as it becomes possible for Uruguay to
convert its sterling balances into free currencies.
Article XV provides that nothing in the
agreement shall prevent the adoption or en-
forcement by either country of measures relat-
ing to imports or exports of gold and silver,
sanitary regulations and the like, or measures
relating to public security or imposed for the
protection of the country's essential interests
in time of war or other national emergency.
Article XVI provides for sympathetic con-
sideration of representations in regard to cus-
toms regulations and related matters and the
application of sanitary regulations. If there
should be disagreement between the two Gov-
ernments with respect to sanitary laws or regu-
lations, a committee of experts including repre-
sentatives of both Governments may be estab-
lished upon request of either Government. This
committee would then study the matter and
submit a report to both Governments.
Article XVII provides that the agreement
sliall enter into force 30 days after exchange of
the Uruguayan ratification and the President's
proclamation of the agreement.
Article XVIII provides that the agreement is
to remain in force for an initial term of three
years, unless terminated earlier in accordance
with the provisions of article XII. If neither
Government has given the other notice of inten-
tion to terminate the agreement on the expira-
tion of the term of three years, it will continue
in force thereafter, subject to termination on
six months' notice or in accordance with the
provisions of article XII.
TRADE AGREEMENT WITH URUGUAY : ANALYSIS
654s
TABLE A
Itemized List of Tariff Concessions Obtained I^om Ubcguat (Schedule I)
Note. — Duties, other than ad-valorem percentages, given in this table include base duties and surtaxes calcu-
lated on official customs valuations, and are expressed in terms of Uruguayan paper pesos. The current "free"
rate of exchange of the peso is about 53 cents, n. a.= statistics not available.
Part A. — The articles included in part A are identified by section, position, and item numbers of the revised
"Tariff of Import Valuations". The descriptions in the table are abbreviated from the tariff nomenclature found
in the test of the agreement.
Itemized List op Tariff Concessions Obtained From Uruguay (Schedule I)
Uruguayan tariff
Description of article (abbreviated)
tJnit
Pre«greemeiil
duty (pesos)
Agreement duties
and extent of
concessions
U. S. exports
to Uruguay
in thousands
of dollars)
Section
Position
Item
Duty
(pesos)
Reduction
(percent)
1939
1940
II
67
57
68
58
59
62
87
120
120
133
139
143
143
143
171
172
174
207
281
284
285
294
311
311
384
384
384
260
261
267
268
274
291
399
632
633
688
704
716
716
718
860
868
878
1000
1549
1660
1662
1942/44
2032
2033
2480
2482
2486
100 gross kilos.
100 legal kilos..
lOOkUos
100 legal kUos..
100 gross kilos.
100 kilos
100 gross kilos-
100 kilos
100 gross kilos.
100 square
meters.
1000 gross kilos.
11. 2628
20.6534
6.9365
6. 9365
22.9797
11.0643
1.792
40.50
57. 4492
8.894
84.117
141.85 plus
29.79% ad
val.
60.00
60,00
33.69
366.54
0.315
40.0017
100.00
4.636
1.35
368. 81
39. 15C6
6.20
20.7529
18.0291
16.8659
7.94
10.40
4.89
4.89
8.20
7.80
L792
40.60
40.60
8.894
69.30
142.00
32.10
32.10
33.69
272.60
0.316
28.20
70.60
4.536
1.35
260.00
27.60
5.20
13.376
9.015
8.433
30
50
30
30
64
30
Bound
Bound
30
Bound
30
623
47
47
Bound
30
Bound
30
30
Bound
Bound
30
30
Bound
SO
60
SO
12
39
8
30
6
3
(•)
4
160
22
1
11
20
78
31
11
1
146
6
M
jj
jl
II
Apples, fresh (from September 1 to the last day of
Febraary, inclusive).
1
34
II
36
IV
Sardines in oil or other media, including tomato
sauce, packed in hermetically sealed containers.
1
2
rv
11
rv
1
1
IV
IV
Sweetened fruit Juices, liquid, and syrups for bever-
ages without alcohol.
Unmanufactured tobacco of flue-cured, flre-cured, or
hurley types.
132
37
V
69
V
5
VI
VI
Liquid insecticide, with a base of pyrethrum or of
ethers and hydrocarbides.
Gum spirits of turpentine and wood turpentine
14
6
42
VI
35
VI
VI
IX
Varnish, including nitrocellulose or pyroxylin lac-
quers.
Composition of asphaltio base for coating roofs
18
1
81
IX
Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and California white
pine (Pinus monticola; P. lambertiana; and P.
ponderosa).
18
1
Note. — With respect to materials imported
for use in construction work of the type specified
in decree no. 722/1940 of June 7, 1940, the 50 per-
cent reduction in duties and additional charges
provided for in article 2 of the said decree will be
applicable to the rates speciBed above in respect
of items 2480, 2482 and 2485 Of position 364 ol
section IX, it being understood that such reduc-
tion shall apply with respect to materials im-
ported during the life of the agreement.
• Less than $500.
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TABLE A — Paet A — Continued
Itemized List of Tariff Concessions Obtained From Urugtjat (Schedule I)- — Continued
Uruguayan tariff
Agreement duties
and extent of
U. S. exports
to Uruguay
(in thousands
Description of article (abbreviated)
Unit
Pre-agreement
duty (pesos)
concc
of dollars)
Section
position
Item
Duty
(pesos)
Reduction
(percent)
1939
1940
IX
384
386
2490
2499
Oak-. '.—
100 gross kilos.
2.659
0.24
1.804
0.24
30
Bound
4
5
IX
Staves, shocks, and heading Tor barrels and casks
IX
397
2550
Unassembled barrels and casks. In sets, with capacity
up to 200 liters.
Each
1.6284
1.148
30
77
48
IX
397
2551
Unassembled barrels and casks, in sets, with capacity
"
3.2568
2.296
30
of from 201 to 500 liters.
IX
397
2601
Unassembled barrels (barricas)
"
0.0159
0.011
31
X
423
3020.1
Cardboard, of fiber of wood, for construction
100 gross kilos.
7. 3762
6.20
30
_
2
X
425
3024
Vulcanized fiber, in bars, sheets, tubes, et cetera
Adva!
73. 762%
52%
30
1
4
X
426
3026
Roofing paper coated with composition of asphaltic
base.
100 gross kilos.
7. 3762
6.20
30
'•
14
X
426
3028
Cardboard and paper impregnated with other ma-
terials, including paste, chalk, sawdust, and
similar.
7.3762
£.20
30
n. a.
n. a.
X
428
3031
Hygienic paper, in rolls, not exceeding 16 centimeters
In width.
11.0643
7.80
30
X
426
3035
Hygienic paper, square or rectangular, in sheets, not
larger than 20 centimeters to a side.
'■
11.0643
7.80
30
12
6
X
428
3036
Hygienic paper, square or rectangular, in sheets, not
100 legal kilos.
25.8167
18.20
30
larger than 46 centimeters to a side.
X
426
3039
Hygienic paper, in other forms, up to 20 centimeters
100 gross kilos.
11.0643
7.80
30
XVI
823
823
32
38
Airplane motors..
Free
Free
Bound
-
_
XVI
Parts and separate pieces of Iron or steel for light
motors, including imfiiusbed parts:
Pistons
100 gross kjlos.
43.094
30.38
30
All other parts and separate pieces included in this
43.094
43.094
Bound
item.
XVI
823
39
Parts and separate pieces of other common metals for
light motors, including unfinished parts:
*'
Pistons -
"
106. 636
74.40
30
All other parts and separate pieces included in this
'■
105.636
105. 536
Bound
item.
XVI
867
418
Shafts for automobiles, of iron or steel:
Crankshafts, camshafts, and piston pins
„
43.094
30.38
30
All other parts included in this item..
,.
43.094
43.094
Bound
XVI
857
429
Notched wheels and shafts, gears: for automobiles, of
iron or steel:
Crankshaft t iming gears and camshaft timing gears.
All other parts included in this item
'•
43.094
43. 094
30.38
43. 094
30
203
324
XVI
857
446
Pulleys, clutches, and couplings (excluding gears),
for automobiles, of iron or steel:
Coimecting rods
43.094
43.094
30.38
43.094
30
Bound
All other parts included in this item
„
XVI
857
470
Cylinders for automobiles, of iron or steel:
Cylinder blocks and heads _
<i
43.094
30.38
43.094
Free
Free
0.388
30
Bound
Bound
Bound
23
All other parts included in this item... _
..
43.094
xvn
889
26
Tractors for agriculture
Gross kilo
Free
Free
0.5026
XVII
889
27
Tractors for other purposes
264
479
xvu
seo
28
Passenger automobiles weighing not more than 1060
KUa
kilos.
Note.— Automobiles in the foregoing class
weighing more than 550 kilos but not more than
1050 kilos each are assessed a minimum duty of
301.84 pesos per automobile, and automobiles
172
262
weighing up to 650 kilos each are assessed a mmi-
mum duty of 237.17 pesos per automobile.
xvu
890
29
Passenger automobiles weighing more than 1050 kilos
and up to 1350 kilos.
"
0.5305
0.410
23
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TABLE A— L'ART A— Continued
Itemized List of Tariff Concessions Obtained From Uruguay (Schedule I) — Continued
654u
Uruguayan tariff
Description of article (abbreviated)
Unit
Pre-agreemect
duty (pesos)
Agreement duties
and extent of
concessions
U.S. exports-
to Uruguay
in thousands
of dollars)
Section
Position
Item
Duty
(pesos)
Reduction
(percent)
1939
1940
xvn-
890
30
Passenger automobiles weighing more than I3JjO kilos
Kilo
0. .5864
0.463
23
and up to 1650 kilos.
XVII
890
31
Passenger automobiles weighing more than 1650 kilos
and up to 1818 kilos.
"
0.7B8
0. .593
23
XVII
890
31
Passenger automobiles weighing more than 1818 kilos
"
0.8(19
0, 68.3
21
TriflniiAfi in
XVII
890
32
and up to 18.50 kilos.
Passenger automobiles weighing more than 1850 kilos
and up to 2050 kilos.
■•
1.106
0. 854
23
figure s
imme di-
ately
abo^'"
xvn
890
32.1
Passenger automobiles weighing more than 2050 kilos
"
1.605
1.162
23
and up to 2222 kilos.
xvn
890
32.1
Passenger automobiles weighing more than 2222 kilos
and up to 2777 Ulos.
"
1.67
1.289
23
XVII
890
32.1
Passenger automobiles weighing more than 2777 kilos
and up to 3333 kilos.
Note. — Automobiles which lack any of the fol-
lowing parts will be classified in the immediately
preceding group and with the minimum valua-
tion and weight for that group: Glass, motors,
fenders, seats, upholstery, tires and tubes, radi-
ators, bumpers, or batteries.
1.835
1.404
23
xvn
890
33
Automobile buses
Ad val
4. 2556%
3%
30
Included in
figures
for ex-
ports of
automo-
bile truck
chassis.
XVII
891
37
Chassis for passenger automobiles, weighing not more
than 2500 gross kilos.
Gross kilo
0. 2792
0.216
23
Included in
flsu r e s
XVII
891
38
Chassis for passenger automobiles, weighing more
than 2500 gross kilos and up to 2750 gross kilos.
0.349
0.270
23
for ex-
ports of
Note.— Minimum duty for passenger auto-
mobile chassis regardless of weight.
Each-.
335. 08
268. 74
23
passenger
automo-
bUes.
XVII
891
37
Automobile truck chassis weighing not more than
2500 gross kilos.
Gross kilo
0. 1021
0.072
30
xvn
891
38
Automobile truck chassis weighing more than 250O
gross kilos and up to 2750 gross kilos.
"
0.1277
0.09
30
xvn
S91
39
Automobile truck chassis weighing more than 2750
gross kilos and up to 3000 gross kilos.
0. 1632
O.IOS
30
XVII
891
40
Automobile truck chassis weighing more than 3000
gross kilos and up to 3250 gross kilos.
0. 1787
0.126
30
f '112
" 236
XVII
891
41
Automobile truck chassis weighing more than 3250
gross kilos and up to 350O gross kilos.
"
0. 2043
0.144
30
XVII
891
42
Automobile truck chassis weighing more than 3500
gross kilos.
Gross kilo
0. 2553
0.18
30
Note. — Minimum duty for truck chassis re-
Each
122. 56
86.40
30
gardless of weight.
XVII
891
37
Automobile bus chassis weighing not more than
2500 gross kilos.
Gross kilo
0.0085
0,006
29
xvn
891
38
AutomobUe bus chassis weighing more than 2500
gross kilos and up to 2750 gross kilos.
"
0.0106
0.0076
29
I
xvn
891
39
Automobile bus chassis weighing more than 2750
gross kilos and up to 3000 gross kilos.
0.0128
0.009
30
xvn
891
40
Automobile bus chassis weighing more than 3000
gross kilos and up to 3250 gross kilos.
0.0149
0.0106
30
• These figures include buses and motor trucks and chassis.
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TABLE A— Pabt A— Continued
Itemized List of TARirr Concessions Obtained From Uruguay (Schedule I) — Continued
Uruguayan tariff
Section Position Item
Description of article (abbreviated)
Pre-agreement
duty (pesos)
Agreement duties
and extent of
concessions
U. S. exports
to Urugufiy
(in thousands
of dollars)
Duty
(pesos)
Reduction
(percent)
XVII
XVU
XVII
xvn
XVII
XVII
XVII
XVII
XVU
891
891
893
893
893
893
893
41
42
XVU
893
50
XVII
893
61
XVII
893
62
XVII
893
63
XVII
893
54
XVII
893
55
XVII
893
56
xvn
S93
57
XVII
893
68
XVII
893
59
XVII
893
60
XVII
893
61
xvn
893
62
XVII
893
63
64
65
67
68
Automobile bus chassis weighiug more than 3250
gross kilos and up to 3500 gross kilos.
Automobile bus chassis weighing more than 3500
gross kilos.
Note. — Minimum duty for bus chassis regard-
less of weight.
Drivers' cabs for trucks or buses, imported separately
or with chassis.
Note. — Minimum duty for drivers' cabs
regardless of weight.
Body Parts:
Fans and ribs for tops.
Seats of leather _
Seats of other kinds
Tops-- - - — -
Running boards - .-,
Seat covers --
Fenders - ---
Windshields, with iron or steel frames _
Windshields, with frames of other common metals.
Lateral windshields ---
Doors
Glass and glassware
Other body parts of iron or steel
Other body parts of other common metals or other
materials.
Parts and pieces of the transmission and steering
gear:
Steering wheels of iron or steel
Steering wheels of other materials
Other parts of iron or steel:
Transmission gears, transmission spline shaft,
transmission countershaft, differential pro-
peller shaft, differential case, differential ring
gear and pinion, diflcrential pinion gears,
differential pinion gear sbaft, differential side
gear, rear axle shaft, steering gear shaft and
worm, steering ge^ sector and shaft, clutch
disc assembly, clutch release levers, steering
knuckle and steering knuckle king pin.
All other parts included in this item -
Other parts of other common metals-
Other parts of other materials
Others:
Shock absorbers - _
Rims and spokes for wheels
Gross kilo..
Each ,
Gross kilo.
Each
100 gross kilos.
Each
100 gross kilos.
100 legal kilos.
Each
Pair
100 legal kilos..
100 gross kilos.
100 legal kilos .
Each.
100 gross kilos.
0.017
0.0213
10.21
0.31688
82.39
33.419
11. 206
3.362
112.061
67.237
336. 184
2.023
6.156
13. 192
3.957
52. 768
13. 192
70. 357
123. 125
0.879
3.078
43.094
105. 5.%
49.25
70.357
11.433
0.012
0.015
7.20
0.245
63.62
33.419
11.206
3.362
112.061
67.237
336. 184
2.023
6.156
13. 192
3.957
52. 768
13. 192
70. 357
123. 125
0.879
3.078
43.094
105. 536
49.25
70.357
31.433
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Included In
figures
' immedi-
ately
above.
Included in
figures for
exports of
articles in
Section
XVI, Po-
si t ion
823. Item
38 to Po-
sition 857,
Item 470.
TRADE AGREEMENT WITH URUGUAY : ANALYSIS
654w
TABLE A— Part A— Continued
Itemized List of Tariff Concessions Obtained From Uruguay (Schedule I) — Continued
Uruguayan tariff
Section Position Item
Description of article (abbreviated)
Unit
Pre-atjreemenl
duty (pesos)
Agreement duties
and extent of
concessions
Duty
(pesos)
Reductirr
(percent)
U. S. exports
to Uruguay
(in thousands
of dollars)
xvn
893
71
XVII
893
72
XVII
893
73
XVII
893
74
XVII
893
76
XVII
893
76
XVII
893
77
XVII
893
78
XVII
893
79
XVII
893
80
XVII
xvn
901
902
117
118
Bumpers of iron or steel _
Bumpers of other common rOetals
Wheels of wood
Wheels of other materials
Tanks of iron or steel
Tanks of other materials
Hub caps of iron or steel ,
Hub caps of other materials ,
Other parts of iron or steel..
Other parts of other materials..
Note.— All the parts described under Posi-
tion 893, when composed of more than 50 percent
by weight of iron or steel, will be classified as iron
or steel parts. When composed of less than 50
percent of iron or steel, they will be classified
according to the predominant nonferrous metal.
Aviation apparatus, equipped with motors
Parts for replacement and assembly of aircraft, ex-
cluding motors.
100 legal kilos..
Each ,
100 gross kilos
100 legal kilos.
100 gross kilos.
35. 178
131.92
3.606
35. 178
219. 867
307. 814
70. 357
105. 536
43. 094
105. 536
Free
Free
35. 178
Bound
131.92
Bound
3.606
Bound
35. 178
Bound
219. 867
Bound
307. 814
Bound
70. 357
Bound
106. 536
Bound
43.094
Bound
106 536
Bound
Free
Free
Bound
Bound
Included in
figures for
exports of
articles in
Section
XVI, Po-
sition 823,
Item 38 to
Position
857, Item
470.
Part B. — The articles included in part B are identified by section and item numbers of the unrevised sections
of the Uruguayan tariff in force on the day of signature of the agreement.
Uruguayan taritl
Schedule
Item
Description of article (abbreviated)
Pre-
agreement
duty (pesos)
Agreement duties
and extent of
concessions
Duty
(pesos)
Reduc-
tion (per-
cent)
U.S. ex-
ports to
Uruguay
(in thou-
sands of
dollars)
1939
Raw materials. -
Raw materials..
Raw materials..
Raw materials..
Raw materials..
Raw materials..
Raw materials..
Raw materials..
Raw materials..
Cotton, spun, crude, for the loom
Cotton, spun, for the loom, colored, including mercer-
ized yarn.
Plows with handles
Plows, sulky, with one share
Plows, sulky, with two shares
Plows, sulky, with three shares _
Plows, sulky, with more than three shares.
Plows, sulky with discs...
Plows with shares or discs, for tractors
100 kilos..
Each.-
Per share or
disc.
2.70
5.04
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
2.70
6.04
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
Bound
42
130
54
150
83
654x
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN: JULY 25, 1942, SUPPLEMENT
TABLE A— Part B — Continued
U.S. ex-
Agreement duties
ports to
Uruguay
Uniguayan tariff
and extent of
Pre-
sands of
Description of article (abbreviated)
Umt
agreemeot
duty (pesos)
dollars)
Schedule
Item
Duty
(pesos)
Reduc-
tion (per-
cent)
1939
1940
R a^r materials
170
Electric plants for light and power (without storage
batteries), including wind-driven electric power
generating devices.
100 gross kilos.
6. 3832
4. .50
30
8
5
Raw materials
248
Industrial machinery, n. s. p. f.: machines weighing
up to 100 kilos each.
R-037
8.937
Bound
n. a.
n. a.
Gross kilo. ...
Free
Free
62
56
Raw materials
349
Replacement and repair parts for industrial machin-
ery, of copper, bronze, brass, or other metal,
n. s. p. f., whether or not combined with other
materials.
100 gross kilos.
17,873
17.873
Bound
n. 8.
n. a.
Raw materials
350
Replacement and repair parts for industrial machin-
ery, of iron or steel, combined or not with other
materials, weighing 25 kilos or less each.
10. 213
10. 213
Bound
n. a.
n.
Raw materials
351
Replacement and repair parts for industrial machin-
ery, of iron or steel, combined or not with other
materials, weighing more than 25 kilos but less
than 100 kilos each.
6.383
6.383
Bound
n. a.
D. a.
85
100 gross kilos.
39.15
39.15
Bound
2
1
or not combined with other materials.
872
"
92.20
65,00
30
12
10
118
100 kilos
51.07
36.00
30
8
24
119
136. 18
96.00
30
3
Paper
124
Calculating and adding machines, including book-
keeping and accoimting machines.
"
170. 22
120.00
30
33
20
Included in
Paper
2M
Parts for standard typewriters
221.29
36.00
84
Paper
Paper
255
••
690. 10
96.00
84
exports of
typewrit-
ers.
259
u
737. 62
1''0 00
84
parts for bookkeeping and accounting machines.
Electrical
1
100 gross kilos
2(5 3841
IS 60
30
teries.
10
Electrical
1
Storage batteries and parts for same: radio batteries-.
"
51.066
36.00
30
Electrical-
1
Storage batteries and parts for same, except auto-
mobile and radio batteries.
"
22. 1286
16,60
30
Electrical
34
170 22
170 22
23
62
36
Parts and accessories for radio receiving sets
..
Electrical -
]19
Electrical -.
120
Automatic refrigerators: refrigeration apparatus,
..
5S 72.^9
41 40
30
29
27
separate.
129
0.8511
0.60
30
IS
Note.— The existing 4 percent reduction for
breakage of glass tubes is bound.
Electrical ... .
155
Machines for washing, ironing, washing dishes, and
100 [iross kilos
36 HSl
30
3
all machines operated by electricity not specifi-
cally mentioned, except industrial machines.
211
■'
66. 3858
46.80
30
2
654y
TRADE AGREEMENT WITH URUGUAY : ANALYSIS
TABLE B
Itemized List of Tariff Concessions Made to Uruguay (Schedule II)
(Compiled from oSicml statistics of the U. 8. Department of Commerce)
note: With the exception of unmanufactured agates, all Items included In schedule II of the agreement with Uruguay are also Included In schedulo
11 of the agreement with Argentina, effective November 15, IMl, and the rates of duty on these items are the same in both agreements.
Para-
graph
num-
ber in
Tariff
Act of
1930
Description of article
Rate of duty
Ad valorem
equivalent on
basis of imports
in 1939
United States imports for consumption -
(in thousands of dollars)
Tarifl Act of 1930
Trade agreement
with Uruguay
Under
rate
eSec-
tive in
1939
(per-
cent)
Under
rate
provided
by trade
agree-
ment
with
Uruguay
(per-
cent)
From Uruguay
From all countries
1938
1939
1940*
1938
1939
1840 '
19
A. DtjniBLE Items
Casein or lactarene, and mixtures
of which casein or lactarene is
the component material of
chief value, not specially pro-
vided for.
Glycerin, crude — _.
niycerin, refine^
SHi lb
2Ht lb
98
10
17
120
49
10
17
60
18
3
27
16
44
60
28
"1,028
219
/60
3
886
"729
29
44
42
I* lb •
fiat lb
42
2tlb •
Viitlb
23
TOl
Tallow:
Beef and mutton tallow, ined-
ible (include oleo stock,
T. D. 48876).
Beef and mutton tallow, edible
(Include oleo stock, T. D.
4S876).
Total ...
Hi Ih.+Zi lb. Im-
port tax.
Sec21Ul(a)I.R.C.
.do
M«lb.-fU«lb.lm-
port tax.
Sec. 2491(a) I. R.C.
do
43
-
15
-
/53
44
43
Oleo oil and oleo stearin:
OleooU
H \b.+3i lb. im-
port tax.
See. 2491(c) I. R.C.
do
H< lb.-fl«i! lb.
import tax.
Sec. 2491(c) I. R.C.
do
76
37
701
2
-
15
(«)
(•)
(•)
Total
2
-
-
16
(•)
(«)
Extract of meat. Including fluid..
Meats, prepared or preserved, not
specially provided for (except
meat pastes other than liver
pastes, packed in airtight
containers weighing with
their contents not more than
3 ounces each):
Canned beef, including corned
beef.
Beef and veal, pickled or cured..
Canned moats, not elsewhere
specified, and prepared or
preserved meats, not spe-
cially provided for (includ-
ing liver pastes).
16^ lb '
7Ht lb -
39
•60
<84
25
19
'30
•42
20
706
92
2,685
60
216
2,609
102
14
826
93
(')
213
8,399
119
■ 58
469
8,573
154
47
237
706
6^ lb., but not less
than 20% ad va-
lorem.
do
do
3^ lb., but not less
than 20*^ ad va-
lorem.
do
do
6,916
110
20
2,746
2,711
918
( 8,676
8,774
7,045
Footnotes at end of table.
654Z DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN: JULY 25, 1942, SUPPLEMENT
TABLE B~Continued
Itemized List op Tariff Concessions Made to Uruguay (Schedule II) — Continued
Description of article
Rate of duty
Tariff Act of 1930
Trade agreement
with Uruguay
Ad valorem
equivalent on
basis of Imports
in 1939
Under
rate
effec-
tive in
1939
(per-
cent)
Under
rate
provided
by trade
agree-
ment
with
Uruguay
(per-
cent)
United States Imports for consumption**
(in thousands of dollars)
From Uruguay
1940 '
From all countries
Flaxseed
Provided, That on and after
the effective date of this
agreement, and until the
thirtieth day following a
proclamation by the Presi-
dent of the United States of
America, after consultation
with the Uruguayan Gov-
ernment, that the existing
abnormal situation in re-
spect of the trade in flaxseed
has terminated, the rate of
duty under this item shall
be -.
Wools: Uonskoi, Smyrna, Cor-
dova, Valparaiso, Ecuadoran,
Syrian, Aleppo, Geurgian,
Turkestan, Arabian, Baghdad,
Persian, Sistan, East Indian,
Thibetan, Chinese, Manchu-
rian, Mongolian, Egyptian,
Sudan, Cyprus, Sardinian,
Pyrenean, Oportc, Iceland,
Scotch Blackface, Black
Spanish, Kerry, flaslock, ami
Welsh Mountain; similar
wools w ithout merino or
English blood; all other wools
of whatever blood or origin
not finer than 40's; all the
foregoing—
In the grease or washed
Scoured
On the skin
Sorted, or matchings, if not
scoured.
Wools, not specially provided for,
not finer than 44's:
In the grease or washed .
Scoured
On the skin
Sorted, or matchings, If not
scoured.
Footnotes at end of table.
65tf bushel of 561bs.
2U lb. of clean
content.
27^ lb. of clean
content.
22f^ lb. of clean
content.
250 lb. of clean
content.
29# lb. of clean
content.
32/ lb. of clean
content.
270 lb. of clean
content.
300 lb. of clean
content.
50(i bushel of 56Ibs.
1,095
323.i0bushelof561bs.
130 lb. of clean
content.
160 lb. of clean
content.
110 lb. of clean
content.
140 Ih. of clean
content.
170 lb. of clean
content.
200 lb. of clean
content.
150 Ih. of clean
content.
1S0 lb. of clean
content.
4.995
1,495
1.609
TRADE AGREEMENT WITH URUGUAY : ANALYSIS
TABLE B— Continued
Itemized List of Tariff Concessions Made to Uruguay (Schedule II) — Continued
654aa
Description of article
Rate of duty
Ad valorem
equivalent on
basis of imports
m 1939
United States Imports for consumption •
(in thousands of dollars)
Para-
graph
num-
Tariff Act of 1930
Trade agreement
vrith Uruguay
Under
rate
effec-
tive in
1939
(per-
cent)
Under
rate
arovided
by trade
agree-
ent
with
Uruguay
(per-
cent)
From Uruguay
From all countries
ber in
Tariff
Act of
1930
1938
1949
1940 »
1938
1939
1940'
1530(a)
Hides and skins of cattle of the
bovine species (except hides
and skins of the India water
buffalo imported to be used
in the manufacture of raw-
hide articles) , raw or uncured,
or dried, salted, or pickled:
10% ad valorem.-,
do -
5% ad valorem
do
10
10
10
5
5
6
102
76
47
299
259
5,179
4,043
34
12,089
4,610
121
»16,9I5
2,508
Buffalo hides, not specially pro-
vided for.
do
do
■212
102
122
658
9,256
16.820
19, 636
Total dutiable items
4,305
4,483
4,705
43. 119
52,284
49, 466
B. Free Items
Free
Bound free ■"
1603
1
39
75
11
34
12
2
66
69
24
44
29
3
40
120
50
101
40
(')
1
266
838
290
6,525
694
4
3
678
1,496
442
6,201
792
4
4
1625
Blood, dried, not specially pro-
vided for.
Bones, crude, steamed, or ground;
bone dust, bone meal, and
bone asli; and animal carbon
suitable only for fertilizing
purposes.
Tankage of a grade used chiefly
for fertilizers, or chiefly as an
ingredient in the manufacture
of fertilizers.
Sausage casings, weasands, intes-
tines, bladders, tendons, and
integuments, not specially
provided for;
Sheep, lamb, and goat sausage
casings.
Sausage casings, not specially
provided for (including
weasands, bladders, and in-
testines).
Integuments, tendons, and in-
testines, not sausage casings.
Total
Free
Bound free.
429
1627
Free
Bound free
1,481
375
1755
Bound free
7,077
851
Bound free .
12
46
73
141
7,123
6,997
7,943
Footnotes at end of table.
654bb DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN: JULY 25, 1942, SUPPLEMENT
TABLE B— Continued
Ttemized List of Tariff Concessions Made to Uruguay (Schedule II) — Continued
Description of article
Rate of duty
Ad valorem
equivalent on
basis of imports
in 1939
United States imports for consumption »
(in thousands of dollars)
graph
num-
Tariff Act of 1930
Trade agreement
with Uruguay
Under
rate
eSec-
tive in
1939
(per-
cent)
Under
rate
provided
by trade
agree-
ent
with
Urusuay
(per-
cent)
rrom Uruguay
From all countries
ber in
Tariff
Act of
1930
1938
1949
1940 >
193S
1939
1940 •
1780
Tankage, unfit for human con-
sumption.
Total free items
Free.
Bound free
103
335
257
936
2,635
1,809
275
559
611
9.453
12.051
12,041
Grand total of items in Sched-
ule II.
4,580
5.042
5,376
52. 572
64,335
61.507
• Except as noted, import data do not include imports from Cuba or
imports free of duty (products of the Philippine Islands, etc), entered
under special provisions of the Tariff Act of 1030. Imports into the
Virgin Islands of the United States were negligible and are included.
» Preliminary.
e Rate reduced to Sio^ per pound in the trade agreement with France,
effective June 15, 1930. Rate on product of Cuba reduced to Mo0 per
pound (net) in the trade agreement with Cuba, effective Sept. 3, 1934.
«* Includes the following amounts: From Cuba (dutiable at Cuban
agreement rate): 1938, $212,510; 1939, $215,712; 1940, $219,644; from the
Philippine Islands (free): 1938, $104,509; 1939, $123,410; 1940, $111,406.
■ Rate reduced to 1?^^ per pound in the trade agreement with the
Netherlands effective Feb. 1, 1936: further reduced to I Jlag per pound by
virtue of the reduction on crude glycerin in the trade agreement with
France, effective June 15, 1936.
'Includes Imports valued at $21,772 dutiable but exempt from tax,
entered at the customs district of Puerto Rico.
« Less than $500.
* Bound in the trade agreement with the United Kingdom, effective
Jan. 1, 1939.
* Exclusive of duties on imports into the Virgin Islands of the United
States.
'■ Includes negligible imports of meat pastes (except liver pastes) pre-
pured or preserved, n. s. p. f., packed in airtight containers weighing epch
with contents not more than 3 ounces; not separately classified prior to
1939.
* Includes imports valued at $305,032, product of Cuba, dutiable at
preferential rate. Negligible in other years.
' Includes imports valued at i61,8S7, product of the Philippine Islands
(free). Negligible in other years.
"• Bound in the trade agreement with Uruguay only.
" Sausage casmgs, weasands, intestines, bladders, tendons, and integu-
ments produced from sheep, lambs, and goats, bound in the trade
agreement with Turkey, effective May 5, 1939.
U. S.aOVCRNMtHT PRINTING OFFICt ; 194t
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, DC. Price 10 centa
1 0^ ^,
/ ' /
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
B
c
ETIN
AUGUST 1, 1942
Vol. VII, No. 162— Publication 1778
ontents
The War p,^
Coordination of relief activities:
Report of the President's Committee on War Relief
Agencies 6.57
Establishment of the President's War Relief Control
Board 058
Status of Austria 660
Anglo-American Caribbean Commission 660
Liaison with Netherlands East Indian officials 660
American Republics
Aviation training schools in Mexico 660
Completion of the Intei'- American Highway as a
pioneer road 661
Visit to the United States of the President-elect of
Colombia 661
Health and sanitation mission to Bolivia 662
Commercial Policy
Agreement with the Soviet Union 662
Trade-agreement negotiations with Iran 664
International Wheat Council 670
General
Analysis of State Department appropriations for the
fiscal year 1943 670
Contributionsforrelief in belligerent countries .... 677
The Department
Appointment of officers 677
The Foreign Service
Personnel changes 677
[over]
AUu >-'^ •'*'*'
0
on ten ?s-continued
Treaty Infokmation pag^
Agriculture:
Conventions with Canada and Mexico Kegarding
Migratoiy Birds G78
Protocol Extending the Duration of the Inter-
national Agreement Regarding the Reguhxtion
of Production and Marketuig of Sugar of May 6,
1937 678
Friendship: Treaty Between Chma and Iraq . ■. . . C79
Commerce:
Agreement with the Soviet Union 680
Trade-Agreement Negotiations with Iran 680
Legislation 681
Publications 681
The War
COORDINATION OF RELIEF ACTIVITIES
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON WAR RELIEF AGENCIES
[Released to the press by the White House July 27]
Joseph E. Davies, Chairman of the Presi-
dent's Committee on War Relief Agencies, on
Jiilj" 27 submitted to the President a report, the
text of which follows :
'•Your Committee on War Relief Agencies
respectfully submits the following report.
"In the foreign relief field, a degree of suc-
cess has been achieved in reducing the number
of agencies and coordinating the activities of
those remaining. The number of active foreign
relief agencies is now approximately 300 as com-
pared with some 700 or more during the peak
period in early 1941. While this is a definite
improvement, further coordination and consoli-
dation is desirable in the public interest.
"Funds and contributions in kind raised by
agencies registered with the Department of
State from the beginning of the war to the end
of May 1942 have totalled over $71,000,000.
During the same period other foreign relief
agencies raised a total estimated at $25,000,000.
It is significant that the administrative and
other costs of the agencies registered with and
subject to supervision by the Department of
State have averaged only about 10 percent of
total receipts while those of other foreign relief
agencies have averaged, on the basis of some-
what incomplete information, 30 percent or
more. It is also significant that administrative
expenses of the latter group have shown an ap-
preciable decrease since the President's Com-
mittee requested periodic reports from them,
even though the Committee has been able to
exercise only advisory super\-ision. Tlie pres-
ent rate of collections by foreign relief agencies,
other tlian the Red Cross, is substantially below
the peak, with a resulting increase in the per-
centage of overhead costs, but this decrease in
collections is far more than ofiFset by the in-
crease in domestic relief solicitations.
"In the domestic relief and welfare field, the
entry of the United States into the war has
quite naturally resulted in the establishment of
a very large number of new agencies appealing
to the public for funds and contributions for
the relief and welfare of our own civilian pop-
ulation and armed forces. As there is at present
no central registration or other regulatory au-
thority, these organizations are subject to no
coordinated supervision or control and even
their number can only be estimated.
'•^Vhile actuated by the highest humanitarian
motives, these agencies tend to duplicate each
other's efforts causing public confusion and un-
certainty. Undue competition among them-
selves and between them and the foreign relief
agencies leads to a waste of financial resources
and manpower and thus tends to hamper the
national war effort. There is a lack of correla-
tion between the programs of the private agen-
cies in both the domestic and foreign relief
fields, and those of the Red Cross and of the
several goverimiental agencies concerned with
various phases of relief and welfare.
"Certain important objectives of the Com-
mittee have not so far been accomplished, be-
657
658
DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bl'LLETIN
(.■ause of lack of authority. TluTe rt'iiiaiii. as
iiulieatcHl above, two important factors ali'ect-
iiitj; national unity of effort in these times of
(■mer<jency — (a) the piililir is suhjert to solici-
tation from far too many aj.'encies jvpresentin}z;
an excessive amount of duplication ami (b) the
limited amcjuiit of leadership that exists lor
charitable, welfare and Government war bond
campaijrns is overly occupied and its effecti\e-
ness sei'iously diminished and dissipated.
"The Conunittee believes that these facts .-ill
for a central auth<irity with general juris<lic-
tion antl [lowers to brini.'' abmit coordination of
effort and elimination of duplication and waste.
Pursuant iheretd, tlie Secretary of State, upon
whose reconnnendation this Committee was
(.riuinally a))pointed. has siigovsted that, as the
(loniesti<' iclicf H(dd is now dominant, it would
be in the national iiitei'cst to cons(jlidale, in
such a central authority, supervision over both
diinir>tic ainl foreiiju relief a<j;encies. inchidin<r
the administration of Section b (b) of the
Ncutralily Act. \0:V.K now vested in the Secre-
tary of State.
"'J'lie Committee recommends, therefore, that
ade(|U:ite powei'S be deleyated lo a central au-
thoiity and suggests that this might be done
bv ilie is^uance of an Executive Order."
K.STABLISHMENT OF THE PRESIDENrS WAR liKLIEK CONTROL BOARD
In accordance with the iccdnnuciidat ion of
the Committee ihe Pie^idenl on July '.^4 signed
an Executi\c older (IL'O."!) ■•EslablishinL;' the
Pre^ident■s War Relief Contr<il r.card and De-
fining Its Functions and Duties". The text of
the (irdcr follows :
"Hv xirtiie of the aiithorilv \ested in me by
the Coiistitiit inn and .-taliitcs (if the Unitcil
States, as Pie^ideiit of the United Slates of
Amei'ica and Conmiander-in-Cliief of the Army
and Navy, because of emergencies affecting the
nationul M'curity and defense, and for the piir-
[xi.se of controlling in the public interest chari-
ties for foreign and domestic relief, rehabilita-
tion, reconstriic-tion. and wtdfaie arising from
war-ci'eated needs, it is liereby (irdeicd as fel-
lows;
'"1. The President's Committee nii \\'ai' IJelief
Agencies, appoinled by me mi .March !:'>. I'.Ml,
is hereby cdntiniied and established as the Prcs-
idelU's War Relief ('(intrnl Hoaid. hereinafter
referred to as the I ioa I'd. The Chaii-man of the
Hoard shall be i-e-poiisilile to the President.
"li. The Piiard is hereby aiillioii/.ed and em-
poweii'd —
"(a) lo control, in the inlei'est of the fiirther-
aiHC (it (he war purpose, all solicitations, sales nf
iir (ill'ei>. to ^ell meichii ndi-e or --erv ice^. ccib
lectioiis and receijiis and distribution or disposi-
tion of funils and contributions in kind fol' the
direct or implied purjiose of (1) diarities for
roreigii and domestic relief. I'ehabilitation, re-
construction and welfare arising from war-
created needs in the United States or in foreign
c<iiintries. (■_') refugee relief, (:i) the relief of
the ci\ ilian population of the United States af-
fected by enemy aition. ol' (4) tlie relief and
Welfare of the ai niecl forces of the Unitetl States
or of theii- dependents; I'rociilril, that the
powers herein conferred shall a}i]jly only to
activitie- concerned directly with war relief and
welfare purposes and shall not extend to local
cha lit able acli\ ities of a normal and usual char-
acter nor in any ca-e to intra-siate activities
oilier than those iiumediately affecting the war
effort;
"(b) (1) to pid\ ide for the registration or
licensing of [lersons or agencies engaged in
such aciivitics and for the renewal or cancella-
tion of such legist la I ion o|- licenses; (2) to regu-
late and ( rdiiuite the times and amounts of
fiind-raising ajipeals: (3) to define and pro-
mulgate I'lhical slaiidarils id' solicitation and
collection of funds and contributions in kind;
I I) to rciiiiiie accounts of reci'ipls and cxpendi-
Iiiies duly and reliably audited, and smdi other
records and r<'ports as the Hoai'd may deem to
be ill the public interest; (5) to eliminate or
AUGUST 1, 194 2
659
niei'ge such agencies in the interests of efficiency
and economy; and (6) to take such steps as may
be necessary for the protection of essential local
charities; and
"(c) to prescribe such rules and regulations
not inconsistent with law as the Board may
determine to be necessai-y or desirable to carry
out the purposes of this Order.
"3. The provisions of section 2 of this Order
sl)al] not apply to (a) the American National
Red Cross or (b) established religious bodies
which are not independently carrying out any
of the activities specified in section 2 of this
( )rder.
''4. Under tlie authority given me by Sec-
tion 13 of the Joint Resolution of Congress ap-
proved November 4. 1939 (54 Stat. 8. 11) and
Title I of the First War Powers Act. 1941, ap-
proved December 18. 1941 ( Public Law No. 354,
77th Congress), and pursuant to the suggestion
of the Secretary of State, it is ordered that the
administration of any and all of the p^o^^sions
of Section 8 (b) of the said Joint Resolution
relating to the solicitation and collection of
funds and contributions for relief purposes,
heretofore by me vested in the Secretary of
State, be and it liereby is transferred to the
said Board. All rules and regulations and
forms which have been issued by the Secretary
of State pursuant to the provisions of said
Section 8 (b) and which are in effect shall con-
tinue in effect until modified, superseded, re-
voked or repealed by the Board.
''5. Any and all matters within the jurisdic-
tion of said Board which may be affected with
a question relating to the foreign policy of the
Government of the United States in connection
with the administration of tlie powers vested in
the Board by this Order shall be determined
only after conference with the Secretary of
State, to the end that any action with respect
to such matters shall be consistent with the for-
eign policy of the United States.
"6. For the purpose of economy in adminis-
tiation, the Board is authorized to utilize the
services of available and appropriate person-
nel of the Department of State and other Gov-
(rnment departments and agencies and such
other services, eqiupment, and facilities as may
be made available by these departments and
agencies.
"7. For tile purpose of effectively carrying
out the provisions of this Order, the Board may
I'equire tliat all war relief and welfare policies
l)lans. programs, procedures and methods of
^■oluntal•y agencies be coordinated and in-
tegrated with those of the several Federal de-
partments, establishments and agencies and the
American Red Cross; and all these organiza-
tions shall furnish from time to time such in-
formation as the Board may consider necessary
for such purposes.
"8. The Board shall from time to time sub-
mit to the President such reports and recom-
mendations regarding war charities, relief and
v.-elfare in foreign covmtries and in the United
States and the relationship of public and pri-
vate organizations, resources and programs in
these and related fields, as the public interest
may require.
"9. The members of the Board shall serve
as such without compensation, but shall be en-
titled to necessary transportation, subsistence,
and other expen.ses incident to the performance
of their duties.
"10. This Order shall remain in force during
tlie continuance of the present war and for six
months after the termination thereof, unless re-
voked by Presidential order."
On July 30, 1942, the President's War Relief
Contrf)l Board prescribed cei-tain regulations
governing solicitation and collection of funds
and coiitributions for war relief and welfai-e,
which are to supersede the regulations promul-
gated by the Secretary' of State under authority
of sections 8 and 13 of the Neutrality Act of
1939 relating to relief contributions. The text
of the new regulations appears in the Federal
Register of August 1, 1942, page 5946.
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STATUS OF AUSTRIA
[Released fo tbe press July 27]
At the Secretary's press conference on July
27 a correspondent stated that there appeared
to be some confusion with respect to the view
of this country as to the present status of Aus-
tria and asked for clarification on this point.
The Secretary replied:
"It is probable that such confusion, if it ex-
ists, has arisen from administrative steps which
may hav^ been taken by this Government in
pursuance of its own laws designed to afford
adequate protection to this country's interests
in dealing with the situation presented by the
imposition of military control over Austria and
residents of Austria by Germany. This Gov-
ernment very clearly made Iniown its opinions
as to the manner in which the seizure of Austria
took place and the relation of that seizure to
this Government's well-known policy toward
the taking of territory by force. This Govern-
ment has never taken the position that Austria
was legally absorbed into the German Keich."
ANGLO-AMERICAN CARIBBEAN
COMMISSION
[Released to the press August 1]
Charles W. Taussig, United States chairman
of the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission,
announced on August 1 the appointment of S.
Burns Weston as secretary of the American
Section of the Commission.
Mr. Weston is transferring from his former
position as director of the Office of the National
Advisory Committee of the National Youth
Administration. He was born in Yellow
Springs, Ohio, and is a graduate of Antioch
College and Yale Law School. Before coming
to Washington he was a resident of Cleveland,
Ohio.
The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission
was created in March 1942 and serves as a body
to advise the British and American Govern-
ments on social and economic problems affect-
ing the Caribbean area. The other American
members of the Commission are Governor Eex-
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETTN
ford Guy Tugwell, of Puerto Rico, and Mr.
Coert duBois, Chief of the Caribbean Office of
the Department of State.
LIAISON WITH NETHERLANDS EAST
INDIAN OFFICIALS
[Released to the press July 29]
Mr. Walter A. Foote, formerly American
Consul General at Batavia, is on his way to
Australia as this Government's representative
in contact with the Netherlands officials there
of the East Indian Services.
American Republics
AVIATION TRAINING SCHOOLS IN
MEXICO
[Released to the press July 28]
Two pilot training schools, similar to the 600
operated in the United States by the Civil Aero-
nautics Administration, will be established in
Mexico with the cooperation of the United
States, the State Department announced on
July 28.
At the request of the Mexican Government,
tlie Civil Aeronautics Administration will de-
tail supervisors to instruct Mexican personnel
in United States aviation training methods and
to assist in the establishment of the schools.
A nucleus for this purpose will soon be avail-
able when 26 Mexican young men complete avia-
tion courses they are taking at United States
schools under the supervision of the Civil Aero-
nautics Administration. Of this group, 18 are
receiving flight training, including instructor
courses, while the remainder will be administra-
tive engineers, instructor mechanics, and service
mechanics.
Flight-instructor trainees from this latest
addition to the United Nations are now at Hen-
son Flying Service, Inc., Hagerstown, Md. ; Tri-
Cities Aviation School, Inc., Endicott, N. Y.;
Parkersburg Flying Service and Aviation
School, Parkersburg, W. Va.; Roscoe Turner
AUGUST 1, 1942
661
Aeronautical Corporation, Indianapolis, Ind. ;
North Aviation Co., White Bear Lake. Minn. ;
Cutter-Carr Flying Service, Albuquerque, N.
Mex. ; Plains Airways, Inc., Cheyenne, Wj'o. ;
Southwest Airways, Inc., Phoenix, Ariz.; Pa-
cific Air School, Tucson, Ariz.; Cnlkins Air-
craft Co., Spokane, Wash. ; Olympia Air Trans-
port Corporation, Sunnyside, Wash.; Curtiss-
Wright Technical Institute, Glendale, Calif.
These trainees have been taking a course
which provides from 160 to 180 hours of flight
training and 360 hours of ground-school instruc-
tion, upon successful completion of which they
will meet the requirements for a Civil Aero-
nautics Administration commercial-pilot cer-
tificate with instructor rating.
COMPLETION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN
HIGHWAY AS A PIONEER ROAD
[Keleaseil to the press July 28]
Arrangements have been concluded with
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua.
Costa Rica, and Panama for the immediate link-
ing by a pioneer road of the already -constructed
segments of the Inter-American Highway be-
tween the Mexican-Guatemalan border and
Panama City. This will permit road traffic at
an early date from the end of the existing
standard-guage railway in Mexico to the
Canal Zone. The necessary surveying is al-
ready under way, and construction work will
shortly be started, at the expense of the United
States Government.
The plans which have now been approved call
for the consti'uction of approximately 625 miles
of new all-weather pioneer road to link about
1,000 miles of road which have already been
constructed in Central America and Panama.
The proposed minimum construction standards
for these new links provide for a roadway width
of from 10 to 16 feet with an 8-inch gravel sur-
face, average maximum grades of 10 percent,
and average maximum curvature of 30 meters.
The completion of this road will not only be
of strategic importance, in that it will link the
continental United States with the Canal Zone
by a wholly overland transportation system, but
also it will alleviate in some degree the trans-
portation difficulties of the Central American
countries, wliich have hitherto depended in
large measure upon water transportation. It
is also expected that the contemplated construc-
tion will ease the economic difficulties which the
Central American countries are facing as a re-
sult of the disrupti(m of their foreign trade
caused by the war. Arrangements have been
made for the fullest possible use of local facili-
ties, including labor, equipment, and materials.
The plan to complete the Inter-American
Higliway as a pioneer road will not modify the
plan to construct a permanent Inter-xVmerican
Highway contemplated by the act of Decem-
ber 26, 1911. By this act Congress authorized
the expenditure "of $20,000,000 toward the con-
struction of a permanent Inter- American High-
way in collaboration with the Central Amer-
ican republics. The present plan will, however,
permit through traffic at a much earlier date
than originally contemplated and will facilitate
the construction of the permanent highway, on
the line of which the pioneer road is to be built.
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF THE
PRESIDENT-ELECT OF COLOMBIA
[Released to the press August 1]
The text of a telegram addressed from Miami
to the Secretary of State by His Excellency
Dr. Alfonso Lopez, President-elect of Colombia,
on July 28 follows :
''May I take the opportunity before leaving
for Colombia to renew my sincere gratitude
for the friendly welcome and generous hospi-
tality extended to me as well as my family and
Doctors Soto Del Corral Araujo and Jaramillo
Sanchez by your Govei'nment. We had a very
happy sojoiu-n in the United States and I am
glad to think that it will not only be of benefit
to Colombia but it will also help to bring our
two countries even closer together. It was a
great pleasure indeed to meet you again and to
find you, Mr. Secretary, so keenly interested in
the progressive development of the good neigh-
bor policy which you so ably expounded in
Montevideo,
662
"Please accept my very warm pei-sonal re-
gards and best wishes."
The Secretary of State telegraphed the fol-
lowing reply to the President-elect of Colombia :
"I have received your telegram of July 28.
It also gave me special pleasure to renew our
old and cordial association.
"Your friendly references to the foreign pol-
icy of the government of the United States
reflect in my opinion the happy relations of
trust and cordiality between our two countries,
to which you and President Santos have made
such outstanding contributions. They reflect
also the leadership of Colombia toward closer
and better inter-American relations, a leader-
ship which has been indispensable in reaching
the decree of inter-American solidarity which
now characterizes the relations between the
American countries.
"I send you again my sincere good wishes
for your personal welfare and for your success
in the high office which you will shortly
reassimie."
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
HEALTH AND SANITATION MISSION TO
BOLIVIA
A health and sanitation mission to Bolivia
has been organized as part of the inter- American
health and sanitation program recommended at
the Conference of American Foreign Ministers
in Rio de Janeiro in January 1942. The mission
will cooperate with Bolivian authorities in
working out sanitation projects and will be
headed by Dr. Eugene H. Payne, specialist in
tropical medicine. He will be accompanied to
Bolivia by Dr. Wendell H. Dove, Acting Di-
rector of the Health and Sanitation Division,
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American
Affairs.
Malaria control is one of the projects under
consideration to protect workers in Bolivian
tropical regions.
Among other health and sanitation missions
organized in collaboration with the other
American republics under the Rio program are
those to Brazil and Peru to aid in sanitation
projects for the great Amazon basin, which also
extends into the eastern regions of Bolivia.
Commercial Policy
AGREEMENT WITH THE SOVIET UNION
[Rt'leased to the press July 31]
The commercial agreement between the
United States of America and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics, which was pro-
claimed on and became effective on August 6,
1937 and which was renewed for successive
periods of one year on August 5, 1938, August
2, 1939, August 6, 1940, and August 2, 1941. was
continued in force by an exchange of identic
notes at Wa.shington on July 31, 1942 between
the Secretary of State of the United States of
America, Mr. Cordell Hull, and the Ambassador
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr.
Maxim Litvinoff. The notes provide that the
agreement shall remain in force until August
6, 1943 and thereafter, unless superseded by a
nu)re comprehensive connnercial agreement,
subject to termination on six months' written
notice by either Government.
Although it is expected that in the coming
year the character and amount of United States
trade with the Soviet Union will be governed
largely by the military requirements of the
United States and of the Soviet Union and other
countries struggling against the forces of armed
aggression, rather than by the usual commercial
considerations, the exchange of notes will in-
sure the continuance during the emergency
)ieriod of our established commercial relations
witli the Soviet Union on the basis of the 1937
connnercial agreement.
AUGUST 1, 1942
663
The text of the identic notes exchanged on
July 31 follows :
"Washington, July 31, 194£.
"In accordance with the conversations which
have taken place, I have the honor to confirm on
behalf of my Government the agreement which
has been reached between the Governments of
our respective countries that the agreement re-
garding commercial relations between the
United States of America and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics recorded in the ex-
change of notes of August 4, 1937, which came
into force on August 6, 1937, and which was
renewed on August 5, 1938, August 2, 1939, Au-
gust 6, 1940, and August 2, 1941 shall remain in
force imtil August 6, 1943. It shall continue in
force thereafter, unless superseded by a more
comprehensive commercial agreement, subject
to termination on six months' written notice by
either Government.
"The present agreement shall be proclaimed
by the President of the United States of Amer-
ica and approved by the Council of People's
Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Eepublics.
"Accept [etc.]"
The following text is that of the agreement of
August 4, 1937.1
"With reference to recent conversations
which have taken place in regard to commerce
between the United States of America and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I have the
honor to confirm and to make of record by this
note the following agreement which has been
reached between the Governments of our re-
spective countries :
"One. The United States of America will
grant to the Union of Soviet Socialist Eepub-
lics unconditional and unrestricted most-
favored-nation treatment in all matters con-
cerning customs duties and charges of every
kind and in the method of levying duties, and,
further, in all matters concerning the rules, for-
malities and charges imposed in connection
with the clearing of goods through the customs,
' Executive Agreement Series 105.
475525—42 2
and with respect to all laws or regulations af-
fecting the sale or use of imported goods within
the country.
"Accordingly, natural or manufactured prod-
ucts having their origin in the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics shall in no case be subject,
in regard to the matters referred to above, to
any duties, taxes or charges other or higher, or
to any rules or formalities other or more bur-
densome, than those to which the like products
having their origin in any third country are or
may hereafter be subject.
"Similarly, natural or manufactured prod-
ucts exported from the territory of the United
States of America and consigned to the terri-
tory of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
shall in no case be subject with respect to ex-
portation and in regard to the above-mentioned
matters, to any duties, taxes, or charges other
or higher, or to any rules or formalities other
or more burdensome, than those to which the
like products when consigned to the territory
of any third country are or may hereafter
be subject.
"Any advantage, favor, privilege or im-
munity which has been or may hereafter be
granted by the United States of America in re-
gard to the above-mentioned matters, to a nat-
ural or manufactured product originating in
any third country or consigned to the territory
of any third country shall be accorded im-
mediately and without compensation to the like
product originating in or consigned to the terri-
toi-y of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
"It is understood that so long as and in so
far as existing law of the United States of
America may otherwise require, the foregoing
provisions, in so far as they would otherwise
relate to duties, taxes or charges on coal, coke
manufactured therefrom, or coal or coke bri-
quettes, shall not ajjply to such products im-
ported into the United States of America. If
the law of the United States of America shall
not permit the complete operation of the forego-
ing provisions with respect to the above-men-
tioned products, the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics reserves the right within fifteen days
after January 1, 1938, to terminate this agree-
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
ment in its entirety on thirty days' written
notice.
"It is understood, furthermore, that the ad-
vantages now accorded or which may hereafter
be accorded by the United States of America,
its territories or possessions, the Philippine Is-
lands, or the Panama Canal Zone to one an-
other or to the Eepublic of Cuba sliall be
excepted from the operation of this agreement.
"Nothing in tliis agreement shall be con-
strued to prevent the adoption of measures
prohibiting or restricting the exportation or
importation of gold or silver, or to prevent the
adoption of such measures as the Government
of the United States of America may see fit
with respect to the control of the export or
sale for export of anus, ammunition, or imple-
ments of war, and, in exceptional cases, all other
military supplies. It is understood that any
action which may be taken by the President of
the United States of America under the au-
thority of Section 2 (b) of the Neutrality Act
of 1937 in regard to the passage of title to goods
shall not be considered as contravening any of
the provisions of this agreement relating to the
exportation of natural or manufactured prod-
ucts from the territory of the United States
of America.
"Subject to the requirement that no arbitrary
discrimination shall be effected by the United
States of America against importations from
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and in
favor of those from any third country, the fore-
going provisions shall not extend to prohibi-
tions or resti-ictions (1) imposed on moral or
humanitarian grounds, (2) designed to protect
human, animal, or plant life, (3) relating to
prison-made goods, or (4) relating to the en-
forcement of police or revenue laws.
"Two. On its part the Government of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will take
steps to increase substantially the amount of
purchases in the United States of America for
export to the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lics of articles the growth, produce, or manu-
facture of the United States of America.
"Three. This agreement shall come into
force on the day of proclamation thereof by the
President of the United States of America and
of approval thereof by the Soviet of People's
Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, which proclamation and approval
shall take place on the same day. It shall con-
tinue in effect for twelve months. Both par-
ties agree that not less than thirty days prior
to the expiration of the aforesaid period of
twelve months they shall start negotiations re-
garding the extension of the period during
which the present agreement shall continue in
force."
TRADE-AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN
[Released to the press July 29]
The Secretary of State issued on July 29
formal notice of intention to negotiate a trade
agreement with_the Government of Iran.
The Committee for Reciprocity Information
issued simultaneously a notice setting the dates
for the submission to it of information and
views in writing and of applications to appear
at public hearings to be held by the Committee,
and fixing the time and place for the opening
of the hearings.
There is printed below a list of products
which will come under consideration for the pos-
sible granting of concessions by the Government
of the United States. Representations which
interested persons may wish to make to the
Committee for Reciprocity Information need
not be confined to the articles appearing on this
list but may cover any articles of actual or po-
tential interest in the import or export trade of
the United States with Iran. However, only
the articles contained in the list issued on July
29 or in any supplementary list issued later will
come under consideration for the possible grant-
ing of concessions by the Government of the
United States.
Suggestions with regard to the form and con-
tent of presentations addressed to the Com-
AUGUST 1, 1942
665
mittee for Reciprocity Information are included
in a statement released by that Committee on
December 13, 1937.
A compilation showing the total trade be-
tween the United States and Iran during the
years 1929-40 inclusive, together with the prin-
cipal products involved in the trade between
the two countries during 1939 and 1940, is
printed below.
Department of State
trade-agreement negotiations wit'h iran
Public Notice
Pursuant to section 4 of an act of Congress
approved June 12, 1934. entitled "An Act To
Amend the Tariff Act of 1930", as extended by
Public Resolution 61, approved April 12, 1940,
and to Executive Order 6750. of June 27, 1934, 1
hereby give notice of intention to negotiate a
trade agreement with the Government of Iran.
All presentations of information and views
in writing and applications for supplemental
oral presentation of views with respect to the
negotiation of such agreement should be sub-
mitted to the Committee for Reciprocity Infor-
mation in accordance with the announcement of
this date issued by that Committee concerning
the manner and dates for the submission of
briefs and applications and the time set for
jjublic hearings.
CoRDELL Hull
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C,
July 29, 194£.
Committee for REcrpRociTr Information
trade-agreement negotiations with IRAN
Public Notice
Closing date for submission of briefs, August
27, 1942; closing date for application to be
heard, August 27, 1942; public hearings open,
September 9, 1942.
The Conunittee for Reciprocity Information
hereby gives notice that all information and
views in writing, and all applications for sup-
plemental oral presentation of views, in regard
to the negotiation of a trade agreement with the
Government of Iran, of which notice of inten-
tion to negotiate has been issued by the Secre-
tary of State on this date, shall be submitted to
(he Committee for Reciprocity Information not
later than 12 o'clock noon, August 27, 1942.
Such communications should be addressed to
"The Chairman. Committee for Reciprocity In-
formation, Tariff Commission Building, Eighth
and E Streets NW., Washington, D.C."
A public hearing will be held, beginning at
10 a.m. on September 9, 1942, before the Com-
mittee for Reciprocity Information, in the hear-
ing room of the Tariff Commission in the Tariff
Commission Building, where supplemental oral
statements will be heard.
Six copies of written statements, either type-
written or printed, shall be submitted, of which
one copy shall be sworn to. Appearance at
hearings before the Committee may be made
only by those persons who have filed written
statements and who have within the time pre-
scribed made written application for a hearing,
and statements made at such hearings shall be
under oath.
By direction of the Committee for Reciproc-
ity Information this 29th day of July 1942.
E. G. :NLvrtin
Acting Secretary
Washington, D.C,
July 39, 19J^.
List of Products on Which the United States
Wnxi Consider Granting Concessions to
Iran
Note: The rates of duty indicated are those
now applicable to products of Iran. Wlien the
rate is one which has been reduced pursuant
to a previous trade agreement by 50 percent (the
maximum permitted hy the Trade Agreements
Act), this fact is indicated bj' the symbol mr.
When the rate represents a reduction pursuant
to a previous trade agreement, but less than a
50-percent reduction, this is indicated by the
symbol r. "When an item has been bound free
of duty in a previous trade agreement, this is
indicated by the symbol b.
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For the purpose of facilitating identification
of the articles listed, reference is made in the
list to the paragraph numbers of the tariff
schedules in the Tariff Act of 1930. The de-
scriptive phraseology is, however, in a number
of cases limited to a narrower field than that
covered by the numbered tariff paragraph. In
such cases only the articles covered by the de-
scriptive phraseology of the list will come under
consideration for the granting of concessions.
In the event that articles which are at present
regarded as classifiable under the descriptions
included in the list are excluded therefrom by
judicial decision or otherwise prior to the con-
clusion of the agreement, the list will neverthe-
less be considered as including such articles.
DEPARTME]^ OF STATE BXJLLETIN
United
States
Tariff Act
of 1930
Paragraph
Description of article
$3 per lb.
Asafetida, natural and iinconi- 10% ad val.
pounded, but advanced in
value or condition by shred-
ding, grinding, chipping,
crushing, or any other process
or treatment whatever beyond
that essential to proper pack-
ing and the prevention of de-
cay or deterioration pending
manufacture, not containing
alcohol.
opium containing not less than
8.5 per centum of anhydrous
morphine: Provided, That
nothmg herein contained shall
be so construed as to impair
or affect in any manner the
provisions of the Narcotic
Drugs Import and Export
Act, as amended.
Iron-oxide and iron-hydroxide
pigments, not specially pro-
vided for:
Natural
339 Table, household, kitchen, and
hospital utensils, and hollow or
flatware, not specially pro-
vided for:
Composed wholly or in chief
value of copper or brass, not
platea with platinum, gold, or
silver, and not specially pro-
vided for.
a In the trade agreement with the United Kingdom, effective Jan. 1,
19:i9, the rale of duty on table, household, kitchen, and hospital utensils,
and hollow or flatware, not .'ipecinlly provided for, composed wholly or
in chief value of copper (including copper in alloys other thnn brass), not
plated with platinum, gold, or silver, and not specially provided for, was
reduced to 35% ad valorem.
Present rate
of duty
20% ad val.
."^5% or 40% ad
val.»
Sym-
bol
United
States
Tariff Act
Description of article
Present rate
of duty
Sym-
bol
of 1930
Paragraph
721(d)
Caviar and other fish roe for food
purposes:
30% ad val.
736
Berries, edible, dried, desiccated,
or evaporated.
2H(! per lb.
741
Dates, fresh or dried, except when
packed in units of any descrip-
tion weighing (with the imme-
diate container, if any) not
more than ten pounds each:
It per lb.
it per lb.
766 . -.
Almonds:
5iii per lb.
Shelled
liHt per lb.
761 .
Pistache nuts:
Not shelled
iHtPerlb
2M«Perlb
MR
Shelled..
MR
Zi per lb.
911 (a)
Quilts or bedspreads, wholly or in
chief value of cotton, whether
in the piece or otherwise, if
block-printed by hand.
25% ad val.
911 (b)
Table and bureau covers, center-
pieces, runners, scarfs, nap-
kins, and doilies, made of
plain-woven cotton cloth, and
not specially provided for, it
block-printed by hand.
30% ad val.
1101 (b)
Hair of the camel entered, or with-
Free, subject
drawn from warehouse, imder
to the provi-
bond and used in the manu-
sions of par-
facture of press cloth, camel's
agraph 1101
hair belting, knit or felt boots.
of the Tariff
heavy fulled lumbermen's
Act of 1930,
socks, rugs, carpets, or any
as amended.
other floor covermgs.
1102 (b).....
Hair of the Cashmere goat:
34^ per lb. of
clean con-
tent.
37t per lb. of
clean con-
tent.
On the skin
32t per lb. of
clean con-
tent.
Sorted, or matchings, if not
35!! per lb. of
scoured.
clean con-
tent.
1116 (a)
Oriental, Axminster, Savonncrie,
30^ per sq. ft..
R
Aubusson, and other carpets,
but not less
rugs, and mats, not made on a
than 46% ad
power-driven loom, plain or
val.
figured, whether woven as
separate carpets, rugs, or mats,
or In rolls of any width.
1628
Turquoise, cut but not set, and
suitable for use in the manu-
facture of Jewelry.
10% ad val.
1629 (a)....
Quilts and bedspreads, wholly or
in chief value of cotton,
whether in the piece or other-
wise; table and bureau covers,
90% ad val.
AUGUST 1, 1942
667
United
Stntes
Tariff Act
of 1930
I^cscriplion of arlicio
Present rate
of duty
Sym-
bol
Paragraph
lFi29 (a)-
centerpiocpp. niDncrs, scarfs,
Cont.
napkins, and doilies, made of
plain-woven cotton cloth; all
the foregoinp in part of fringe
and block-printed by hand.
ISW
Cigar and cigarette boxes, finished
or unfinished and not specially
provided for, wholly or in chiof
value of wood or wholly or in
chief value of silver.
60% ad val.
1602
Asafetida, natural and unoom-
pounded, and in a crude state,
not advanced in value or con-
dition by shredding, grinding,
chipping, crushing, or any
other process or treatment
whatever beyond that essen-
tial to proper packing and the
prevention of decay or dete-
rioration pending manufacture,
not containing alcohol.
Free.
1637
Bristles, crude, not sorted,
bunched, or prepared.
Free.
1668
Turquoise, rough or uncut, and
Free.
not advanced in condition or
value from its natural state by
cleaving, splitting, cutting, or
other process, whether in its
natural form or broken, not
set.
1669
Drugs which are natural and un-
compounded and not edible,
and not specially provided for.
and are in a crude state, not
advanced in value or condition
by shredding, grinding, chip-
ping, crushing, or any other
process or treatment what-
ever beyond that essential to
the proper packing of the
drugs and the prevention of
decay or deterioration pend-
ing manufacture, not contain-
ing alcohol:
(Quince seed, non-germinating _ _
Free.
1670 --
Dyeing or tanning materials:
Saffron and madder, whether
Free.
crude or advanced in value
or condition by shredding.
grinding, chipping, crush-
ing, or any similar process.
not containing alcohol.
1681..
Furs and fur skins, not specially
provided for, undressed:
Badger
Free.
B
fox).
Persian lamb and caracul
B
Free
B
Persian lamb and caracul).
B
Free..
B
Wolf
B
Jackal -
Free.
United
States
Tariff Act
nt 1930
Description of articli;
Present ralo
of duty
.Sym-
bol
Paragraph
1686 __
Gums and resins:
Tragacanth
Free.
Natural gums, natural gum
Free.
resins, and natural resins,
not specially provided for.
1688_... _
Hair of goats, cleaned or un-
cleaned, drawn or undrawn,
but unmanufactured, not
specially provided for.
Free.
1700
Iron ore containing iron oxide or
iron hydroxide, and suitable
for the manulacture of pig-
ments.
Free.
1722
Henna leaves, crude or unmanu-
factured, not specially pro-
vided for.
Free.
1755
Sausage casings, weasands, intes-
Free
B
tines, bladders, tendons, and
integuments, not specially
provided for; all the foregoing
produced from sheep. larabs,
and goats.
1768
.Spices and spice seeds:
(2) Cumin
Free.
1811 _ .._
Works of art:
Rugs and carpets made prior
Free
B
to the year 1701.
Trade of the United States With Iran
(Compiled by Die Department of Commerce)
(Values in thousands of dollars)
Year
Exports to
Iran »
General im-
ports from
Iran
Merchandise
balance *
1929
1930 --
2,430
2,743
1,057
1,082
1,409
3,687
4,339
5, 103
5, 456
9, 119
4,420
6,465
8,648
5,797
4, 457
2, 764
3, 353
3,286
3,635
3,736
5,943
3,245
4, 380
8,648
-6, 218
- 3, 054
1931
-3,400
1932
- 1, 682
1933
-1,944
1934
1935
1936
+ 401
+ 704
+ 1,367
1937
-487
1938
+ 5,874
1939
+ 40
1940 _..
-2, 183
« Includes re-exports.
'' Plus sign equals excess of U.S. exports; minus sign equals excess of
U.S. imports.
475525—42-
668
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
UNITED STATES EXPORTS TO IRAN
By Principal Commodities
(Values in thousands of dollars)
Commodity
Quantity
Exports, including re-exports, total
Rubber tire casings, automobile, number
Automobile inner tubes, number
Other vegetable products, inedible
Textile fibers and manufactures
Wood and paper
Lubricating oil, barrels
Asbestos and manufactures
Sulphur, crude, tons
Steel ingots, blooms, billets and slabs, sheet bars and tin plate bars,
tons.
Iron and steel bars and rods, lbs
Iron and steel plates, lbs
Iron and steel sheets, galvanized, lbs
Steel sheets, black , ungalvanized, lbs
Strip, hoop, band and scroll, iron or steel, lbs
Railway track material
Tubular products and fittings, 1 ,000 lbs
Structural iron and steel
Wire and manufactures, lbs
Nails and bolts (except railroads), lbs
Tools
Metal drums and containers for oil, gas, and other liquids
Other iron and steel advanced manufactures
Refined copper in cathodes, billets, ingots, bars, and other forms
lbs.
Other metals and manufactures
Batteries
Transmission and distribution apparatus and parts
Electrical refrigerators and parts
Electric fans, number
Radio apparatus
Other electrical machinery and apparatus
Steam engines, boilers and accessories
Construction and conveying machinery and parts
Well and refining machinery and parts
Pumping equipment and parts
Self-contained air-conditioning units and parts
Air-conditioning equipment and parts
Cotton gins, cotton presses and parts
Air compressors, number
Iron or steel body valves and parts for steam, water, oil, and gas.
Other industrial machinery
Tracklaying tractors (carburetor type) number
Tracklaying tractors (fuel injection type), number
Motor trucks, busses, and chassis, new, number
Passenger cars and chassis (new) number
26, 900
31, 204
492
5,400
19,921
22, 530
116,469
4,245
96, 326
111, 106
Value
4,420
860
74
9
8
4
8
12
127
110,482
611
20
261
439
198
7
34
5
16
5
19
14
5
8
16
16
7
35
92
43
129
666
138
51
237
69
6
100
37
44
Quantity
22, 286
20, 919
4,987
2,500
949
16, 899, 248
6, 941, 929
5, 023, 278
6, 146, 833
1, 043, 160
1,407
324, 708
117,321
294
344
2, 125,913
196
339
354
AUGUST 1, 1942
669
UNITED STATES EXPORTS TO IRAN — Continued
By Principiil Cinnniodities
(Values in tliousaiuls of dollars)
Commodity
Quantity
Value
Quantity
Automobile parts for assembly
Automobile parts for replacement
Automobile accessories
Trailers, number
Parts for aircraft
Other machinery and vehicles
Chemical specialties
Industrial chemicals
Other chemicals and related articles
Scientific and professional instruments, apparatus, and supplies _
Land planes (powered) , number
Wagons and drays, number
All other exports
23
34
193
4
34
7
19
141
111
4
11
126
25
225
0. 1
327
0.7
17
25
126
45
16
5
108
25
158.6
UNITED STATES IMPORTS FROM IRAN
By Principal Commodities
(Values in thousands of dollars)
Commodity
General imports, total
Sausage casings, sheep, lamb, and goat, 1,000 lbs
Goat and kid skins, dry and dry salted, 1,000 lbs
Undressed furs:
Fox, other than silver or black, 1,000
Persian lamb and caracul, 1,000
Other lamb and sheep, 1,000
Goat and kid skin, 1,000
Marten, 1,000
Dates, fresh or dried, with pits removed, 1,000 lbs
Pistache nuts, not shelled, 1 ,000 lbs
Cumin seed, 1,000 lbs
Tragacanth gum, 1,000 lbs
Quince seed, 1,000 lbs
Donskoi, Smyrna, and similar wools without Merino or English
blood, washed (clean content), 1,000 lbs.
Oriental, Axminster, Savonnerie, Aubusson, and other wool car-
pets and carpeting, mats, etc., not made on power-driven loom,
1,000 sq. ft.
All other imports
Quantity
125
25
103
5
3
8
1,626
683
22
2, 918
113
20
2, 404
4,380
205
120
45
354
8
1
72
71
157
1
1, 195
61
4
2,009
77
Quantity
492
2,023
76
660
31
81
9
2, 146
441
48
3,324
153
414
3, 122
Value
8,648
926
375
140
1, 660
56
33
104
67
88
30
1,447
117
158
2,650
797
670
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULX.ETIN
INTERNATIONAL WHEAT COUNCIL
[ Released to the press August 1 1
The Memorandum of Agreement regarding
international trade in wheat' dechires that a
satisfactory sohition of the wheat problem re-
quires an International Wheat Agreement and
that such an agreement necessitates a conference
of the nations willing to participate whicli have
a substantial interest in international trade in
wheat. There is attached to the Memorandum
of Agreement a Draft Convention designed to
facilitate further international consideration
of the subject at such time as may be possible
and to provide a basis for such interim meas-
ures as may be found necessary.
Recognizing that it is impracticable to con-
vene at the present time an international con-
ference to enter into such a convention and
realizing the necessity foi' instituting tempo-
rary controls and for establishing without de-
lay a pool of wheat for relief purposes, the five
participating countries agreed to regard as in
effect among themselves certain of the arrange-
ments described in the Draft Convention. With
a view to the administration of these controls
and of the relief pool of wheat, these arrange-
ments provide for the establishment of an In-
ternational Wlieat Council, tlie first meeting of
wliich will be held early in August.
The President has approved the designation
of the following persons as United States dele-
gates to the International Wlieat Council :
The Honorable Paul H. Appleby. Under Secretary of
Agriculture, chairman
Leslie A. Wheeler, Director of Foreign Agricultural
Relations, Department of Agriculture
N'orris E. Dodd. Director, Western Division, Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration, Department of
Agriculture
Robert M. Carr, Ph.D., Assistant Chief, Division of
Commercial Policy and Agreements, Department
of state
General
ANALYSIS OF STATE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1943
The first of the following tables shows the
increases and decreases in the State Depart-
ment's appropriations for the 194.3 fiscal year as
compared with 1!>42. The second table shows
' Bulletin of July 4, 1942, p. 582.
° For similar comparisons in connection with the
1942 appropriations, see the Bulletin of July 19, 1941.
increases and decrea.ses made by Congress in the
1943 budget estimates submitted by the Presi-
dent.
The Department's appropriation act for 1943
was approved by the President on July 2, 1942
(Public Law 644).
AUGUST 1, 1942
671
RECAPITULATION OF TABLE No. I
Comparison or Depaktment of State Appkopriations in the Regular Annual Acts tor the Fiscal Yeahs
1942 and 1943
Appropriation titles
Appropriations
for 1943
Appropriations
for 1942
Increase (+), de-
crease (-) lor 1943
Reasons for increase or decrease
Department Proper
$5, 583, 200
750, 000
14, 783, 800
1, 500, 000
275, 000
4, 164, 700
$3, 168, 440
150, 000
13, 681, 900
500, 000
450, 000
3, 548, 900
+ $2,414,760
+ 600,000
+ 1, 101,900
+ 1, 000, 000
-175,000
+ 615,800
National Defense Activities
Foreign Service (exclusive of
Emergency Fund).
Emergency Fund
Foreign Service Buildings
International Obligations
See statements of details printed in
Table I below.
Grand Total
27, 056, 700
21, 499, 240
+ 5, 557, 460
TABLE No. I
Comparison of Department of State Appropriations in the Regxtlar Annual Acts for the Fiscal Years
1942 AND 1943
Appropriation titles
Appropriations
tor 1943
Appropriations
for 1942
Increase (+), de-
crease (-) for 1943
Reasons for Increase or decrease
Department Proper
Salaries, Department of
$4, 975, 000
$2, 724, 440
+ $2,250,560
The increase is to provide for con-
State.
tinuing during 1943 numerous addi-
tional emergency positions which
were authorized or filled for only a
portion of the fiscal year 1942; for
additional emergency personnel; for
promotions; and for adjustments as
required under the present emer-
gency.
Contingent Expenses, De-
311,000
166, 600
+ 144,400
Increase is to provide for additional
partment of State.
equipment and supplies for expan-
sion of Department's work and
personnel.
Printing and Binding, De-
228, 600
210, 900
+ 17,700
Increased demands placed on this
partment of State.
appropriation for printed supplies
and for printing the Proclaimed
List of Blocked Nationals will be
met in part by this increase.
672
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
TABLE No. I— Continued
COMPAEISON OP DbPABTMENT OF StATE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE ReGDLAK ANNUAL AcTS FOB THE FISCAL YbAHS
1942 AND 1943
Appropriation titles
Appropriations
tor 1943
Appropriations
(or 1942
Increase (+), de-
crease (-) for 1943
Reasons for increase or decrease
Department Proper — Cont.
Passport Agencies, Depart-
$54, 400
$52, 500
+ $1,900
Increase for salary advancements.
ment of State.
Collecting and Editing Offi-
14, 200
14, 000
+ 200
Increase for salary advancements.
cial Papers of the Terri-
tories of the United
States.
Total, Department
5, 583, 200
3, 168, 440
+ 2,414,760
Proper.
National Defense Activ-
750, 000
150, 000
+ 600,000
Appropriation for 1943 is for the
ities.
Auxiliary Foreign Service, while
appropriation for 1942 was for
export-licensing work in the Depart-
ment. Basis not comparable.
Foreign Service
Salaries of Ambassadors and
595, 000
635, 000
-40,000
This decrease is due to withdrawal of
Ministers.
diplomatic representation from war
areas.
Salaries of Foreign Service
4, 224, 000
4, 232, 600
-8,600
General decrease.
Officers.
Transportation, Foreign
717,000
717, 200
-200
General decrease.
Service.
Office and Living Quarters,
2, 080, 000
2, 138, 000
-58,000
This decrease results from reduction
Foreign Service.
in number of diplomatic and con-
sular offices.
Cost of Living Allowances,
458, 000
338, 500
+ 119,500
Increase is required for supplemental
Foreign Service.
allowances to American officers and
employees to maintain families in
the United States as a result of
the emergency.
Representation Allowances,
150, 000
163, 000
-13,000
General decrease.
Foreign Service.
Foreign Service Retirement
630, 800
621, 700
+ 9, 100
This increase is required pursuant to
and Disability Fund.
the computation by the actuary o
the Treasury in accordance with
existing law.
Salaries, Foreign Service
2, 897, 000
2, 867, 000
+ 30,000
Increase granted for continuing salary-
clerks.
promotion policy.
Miscellaneous salaries and
722, 000
730, 000
-8,000
Decrease of $17,000 due to reduction
allowances, Foreign
in number of diplomatic and con-
Service.
sular offices offset by increase of
$9,000 for continuing salary-pro-
motion policy.
AUGUST 1, 1942
673
TABLE No. I— Continued
Comparison op Depabtmbnt of State Appbopriation8 in
1942 AND
THE Regular
1943
Annual Acts fob the Fiscal Years
Appropriation titles
Appropriations
for 1943
Appropriations
for 1942
Increase (+), de-
crease (— ) for 1943
Reasons for increase or decrease
Foreign Service — Continued
Contingent Expenses, For-
$2, 310, 000
$1,238,900
+ $1,071, 100
Increase required for telegraph ex-
eign Service.
penses.
Total, Foreign Service
14, 783, 800
13,681,900
+ 1, 101,900
(Exclusive of Emer-
gency Fund).
Emergencies Arising in the
1, 500, 000
500, 000
-1-1,000,000
General increase.
Diplomatic and Consu-
lar Service.
Foreign Service Buildings
275, 000
450, 000
-175,000
General decrease in construction
Fund.
work.
International Obligations
United States Contributions
996, 500
1,026,600
-30, 100
Decrease due to Department's policy
to International Com-
of suspending contributions to Bu-
missions, Congresses,
reaus located in war areas.
and Bureaus.
International Boundary
239, 600
200, 000
-1-39,600
Increase required for maintenance and
Commission, United
operation of additional completed
States and Me.xioo (Reg-
portion of construction projects.
ular Commission).
Lower Rio Grande Flood
949, 460
950, 000
-540
General decrease.
Control.
Rio Grande Canalization
440, 000
— 440,000
Project nearing completion.
Project.
Douglas - Agua Prieta Sani-
tation Project.
90, 000
-1-90,000
New project.
Cordova Island Fence Con-
6,500
-6, 500
Nonrecurring.
struction.
Western Boundary Fence
15, 000
25, 000
-10,000
General decrease In construction.
Construction.
International Boundary
43, 800
43, 000
-1-800
Increase for salary advancements.
Commission, United
States and Canada and
Alaska and Canada.
Salaries and Expenses, In-
29, 200
27, 000
+ 2, 200
Increase for salary advancements and
ternational Joint Com-
traveling expenses.
mission, United States
and Great Britain.
■
Special and Technical Inves-
tigations, International
48, 500
48, 500
Joint Commission,
United States and Great
Britain.
674
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BTJLLETIN
TABLE No. I— Continued
CoMPAMBON OP Department of State Appkopbiations in the Reoular Annual Acts for the Fiscal Ybarb
1942 AND 1943
Appropriation titles
Appropriations
for 1943
Appropriations
tor 1942
Increase (+), de-
crease (-) tor 1943
Reasons for increase or decrease
International Obligations —
Continued
International Fisheries Com-
mission.
International Pacific Salmon
Fisheries Commission.
Arbitration of Claim be-
$27, 680
39, 960
$28, 000
40, 000
14, 000
700, 300
-$320
-40
-14,000
+ 984,700
General decrease.
General decrease.
Nonrecurring.
tween United States and
Netherlands.
Cooperation with the Ameri-
can repubUcs.
1, 685, 000
Increase is for expansion of program.
Broad administrative authority
given Department makes listing of
projects here impracticable.
Total, International
Obligations.
4, 164, 700
3, 548, 900
+ 615,800
Grand Total
27, 056, 700
21, 499, 240
+ 5,557,460
TABLE No. I— Part 2
Supplemental and Depicibnct Appropriations Made Subsequent to the Submission of the 1943 Budget
Appropriation titles
Appropriations
for 1943 •
Appropriations
for 1942
Department Proper
Salaries, Department of State
Contingent Expenses, Department of State.
Passport Agencies, Department of State
$985, 320
290, 000
8,245
Total, Department Propbr-
1, 283, 565
Foreign Service
Transportation, Foreign Service
Cost of Living, Foreign Service
Miscellaneous Salaries and Allowances, Foreign Service
Contingent Expenses, Foreign Service
Emergencies Arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service.
800, 000
120, 000
9,000
1, 591, 500
6, 000, 000
Total, Foreign Service.
8, 520, 500
See footnote at end table.
AUGUST 1, 1942
675
TABLE No. I— Part 2— Continued
Supplemental and Deficiency Appropriations Made Subsequent to the Submission of the 1943 Budget
Appropriation titles
Appropriations
for 1943 '
Appropriations
tor 1942
International Obligations
United States contributions to International Commissions, Congresses, and Bureaus.
International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico
International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada and Alaska and
Canada.
International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain:
Salaries and expenses
Special and technical investigations
Alaskan International Highway Commission
Agrarian Claims Commission. United States and Mexico
International Meteorological Congress
Inter- American Travel Congress
Fourth Pan American Highway Congress
$18, 800
50, 000
577
400
11,600
4,000
15, 000
14, 500
3,500
6,500
Total, International Obligations-
124, 877
Certified Claims-
3,659
Grand Total of Supplementals and Deficiencies.
9, 932, 601
" Supplemental appropriations for 1943 have not yet been made but there are a number already pending and others will be considered from time
to time.
Appropriation for Foreign Service Pay Adjustment
(Contained in Independent OfKces Appropriation Bill)
Aitproprialion titles
Approt)riations
tor 1943
.Appropriations
for 1942
Increase (-|-). de-
crease (-) for 1943
Rea.'^ons for increase or decrease
Foreign Service Pay Adjust-
ment.
$1, 350, 000
$975, 000
-1- $375, 000
Increase requested on basis of specific
computation at time estimate was
prepared.
TABLE No. II
Department op State — Fiscal Year 1943
Title of aiiproi)riation
.Approved by
President for
submission to
Congress
Approiiriation
approved by
Congress
Increase (+)
decrease (— )
Department of State
Salaries, Department of State
Contingent Expenses, Department of State.
Printing and Binding, Department of State
Passport Agencies, Department of State
$5, 023, 500
320, 000
260, 000
54, 400
$4, 975, 000
311,000
228, 600
54, 400
-$48,500
-9,000
-31,400
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TABLE No. II— Continued
Department of State— Fiscal Year 1943
Title of appropriation
Approved by
Pre?ident for
submission to
Contn"ess
Appropriation
approved by
Congress
Increase C+)
decrease {— )
Department of State — Continued.
Collecting and Editing Official Papers of the Territories of the United
States.
.$14,200
.$14, 200
Total, Department of State.
National Defense Activities
5, 672, 100
5, 583, 200
750, 000
750, 000
Foreign Service
Salaries, Ambassadors and Ministers
Salaries, Foreign .Service Officers
Transportation, Foreign Service
Office and Living Quarters, Foreign Service
Cost of Living Allowances, Foreign Service
Representation Allowances, Foreign Service
Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund
Salaries, Foreign Service Clerks
Miscellaneous Salaries and Allowances, Foreign Service
Contingent Expenses, Foreign Service
Emergencies Arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service.
635, 000
4, 298, 700
717, 200
2, 100, 000
458, 500
150, 000
630, 800
2, 897, 000
748, 000
2, 321, 900
1, 600, 000
595, 000
4, 224, 000
717, 000
2, 080, 000
458, 000
150, 000
630, 800
2, 897, 000
722, 000
2, 310, 000
1, 500, 000
Total, Foreign Service.
16, 457, 100
16, 283, 800
Foreign Service Buildings Fund.
233, 000
275, 000
International Obligations
Contributions, Quotas, etc
Mexican Boundary Commission:
Regular Commission
Lower Rio Grande Flood Control
Douglas- Agua Prieta Sanitation Project
Fence Construction
International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada and
Alaska and Canada.
International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain:
Salaries and Expenses
Special and Technical Investigations
International Fisheries Commission
International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission
Cooperation with the American republics
1, 027, 480
241,800
950, 000
90, 000
43, 800
31, 200
48, 500
28, 000
40, 000
1, 819, 500
996, 500
239, 600
949, 460
90, 000
15, 000
43, 800
29, 200
48, 500
27, 680
39, 960
1, 685, 000
Total, International Obligations-
4, 320, 280
4, 164, 700
Grand Total-
27, 432, 480
27, 056, 700
-$88, 900
-40,000
-74,700
-200
-20,000
-500
-26,000
-11,900
- 173, 300
-f 42, 000
-30,980
-2,200
-540
+ 15, 000
-2,000
-320
-40
134, 500
-155,580
-375,780
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677
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR RELIEF IN
BELLIGERENT COUNTRIES
[Released to the press July 31 ]
A tabulation of contributions collected and
disbursed during the period September 6, 1939
through June 1942, as shown in the reports sub-
mitted by persons and organizations registered
with the Secretary of State for the solicitation
and collection of contributions to be used for re-
lief in belligerent countries, in conformity with
the regulations issued pursuant to section 3(a)
of the act of May 1, 1937 as made effective by
the President's proclamations of September 5, 8,
and 10, 1939, and section 8 of the act of Novem-
ber 4, 1939 as made effective by the President's
proclamation of the same date, has been re-
leased by the Department of State in mimeo-
graphed form and may be obtained from the
Department upon request (press release of
July 31, 1942, 34 pages).
Tliis tabulation has reference only to contri-
butions solicited and collected for relief in bel-
ligerent countries (France; Germany; Poland;
the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada,
New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa ;
Norway; Belgium; Luxembourg; the Nether-
lands; Italy; Greece; Yugoslavia; Hungary;
and Bulgaria) or for the relief of refugees
driven out of these countries by the present
war.
The Foreign Service
The Department
APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
Mr. Gordon P. Merriam was appointed an
Assistant Chief of the Division of Near Eastern
Affairs, effective July 16, 1942 (Departmental
Order 1073).
Mr. Edward G. Miller, Jr., and Mr. Bernard
D. Meltzer were designated Assistant Chiefs
of the Foreign Funds Control Division, effec-
tive July 16, 1942 (Departmental Order 1074).
PERSONNEL CHANGES
[Released to the press August 1]
The following changes have occurred in the
American Foreign Service since July 25, 1942 :
Robert A. Acly, of Stockbridge, Mass., Consul
at Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South
Africa, has been assigned as Consul at Cape-
town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa.
Norris B. Chipman, of Washington, D. C,
Second Secretary of Legation and Consul at
Cairo, Egypt, has been assigned for duty in the
Department of State.
Paul F. Du Vivier, of New York, N. Y., Vice
Consul at St. John's, Newfoundland, has been
assigned as Vice Consul at Marseilles, France.
Arthur L. Richards, of Pasadena, Calif., Vice
Consul at Capetown, Cape Province, Union of
South Africa, has been designated Second Sec-
retary of Legation at Pretoria, Transvaal,
Union of South Africa.
John S. Richardson, Jr., of Boston, Mass.,
Consul at Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, Union
of South Africa, has been assigned as Consul at
Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South
Africa.
Benjamin Reath Riggs, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
American Consul at Port Said, Egypt, has been
assigned as Consul at Iskenderun, Turkey, in
order to open a new office there.
Herbert F. N. Schmitt, of Grand Rapids,
Mich., Vice Consul at Quebec, Canada, has been
assigned as Vice Consul at Bogota, Colombia.
William W. Schott, of Leavenworth, Kans.,
formerly Second Secretary of Legation at Buda-
pest, Hungary, has been designated Second Sec-
retary and Consul at Tangier, Morocco, and will
serve in dual capacity.
Charles W. Smith, of Burbank, Calif., Vice
Consul at Vancouver, British Columbia, has
been assigned as Vice Consul at Habana, Cuba.
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Charles H. Taliaferro, of Harrisonburg, Va.,
Vice Consul at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada,
has been appointed Vice Consul at Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada.
8am E. AVoods, of Jackson, Miss., formerly
Commercial Attache at Berlin, Germany, has
been assigned as Consul General at Zurich,
Switzerland.
Treaty Information
AGRICULTURE
Conventions with Canada and Mexico
Regarding Migratory Birds
On July 14, 1942 the President, under au-
thority granted in the jNIigratory Bird Treaty
Act, approved and proclaimed amendatory reg-
ulations submitted to him by the Secretary of
the Interior permitting and governing the hunt-
ing, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale,
purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage,
exportation, and importation of migratory
birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof in-
cluded in the terms of the Convention for the
Protection of Migratory Birds between the
United States and Great Britain, in respect of
Canada, signed on August 16, 1916 (Treaty
Series 628), and the Convention for the Protec-
tion of Migratory Bii'ds and Game Mammals
between the United States and Mexico, signed
February 7, 1936 (Treaty Series 912). The
regulations are printed in the Federal Register
for July IT, 1942, page 5471. The regulations
amend those approved by Proclamation 2345
of August 11, 1939, as last amended by Procla-
mation 2518 of October 16, 1941.
Protocol Extending the Duration of the Interna-
tional Agreement Regarding the Regulation of
Production and Marketing of Sugar of May
6, 1937
The International Sugar Council by a resolu-
tion adopted on August 29, 1941 recommended
that steps be taken to insure the continuance
after August 31, 1942 of the International
Agreement Eegarding the Regulation of Pro-
duction and Marketing of Sugar, signed at Lon-
don on May 6, 1937. Pursuant to this resolution
a draft protocol was drawn ujj and transmitted
by tlie British Government to the governments
which were signatory to the agreement of May
6, 1937, with a request that they signify their
willingness to sign the protocol. The British
Ambassador at Washington by a note dated
March 27, 1942 transmitted the draft protocol
to this Government and under date of June 19,
1942, the American Ambassador at London was
autliorized to sign the protocol for the Govern-
ment of the United States of America and to
sign separately in respect of the Common-
wealth of the Philippines. At the request of the
Haitian Government the American Ambassa-
dor was subsequently authorized to sign the
protocol in the name of and in respect of the
Haitian Government.
By a telegram dated July 24, 1942 the De-
pai'tment was informed by the Ambassador that
the protocol had been signed on July 22. 1942
by the following countries: United States of
America, Australia, Belgium, Cuba, Czecho-
slovakia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nether-
lands, Peru, Commonwealth of the Philippines,
Union of South Africa, Union of Soviet So-
cialist Republics, and United Kingdom.
The text of the draft protocol as furnished
by the British Ambassador follows:
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"Protocol To Enforce and To Prolong After
August 31, 1942, the International
Agreement Kbgarding the Regulation
of Production and Marketing of Sugar,
Signed in London on Mat 6, 1937
"Whereas an Agreement refrarding the Regu-
lation of Production and Marketing of Sugar
(hereafter referred to as the Agreement) was
signed in London on tlie 6th May, 1937; and
"Whereas Article 48 of the Agreement pro-
vides as follows :
"'(a) The present Agreement shall come
into force on the 1st September, 1937, if at that
date it has been ratified by all the signatory
Governments.
"'(b) If by the above-mentioned date the
instruments of ratification of all the signatories
have not been deposited, the Governments
which have ratified the Agreement may decide
to put it into force among themselves '; and
"Whereas the ratifications of all the signa-
tories were not deposited by the 1st Septem-
ber, 1937; and
"Whereas the Agreement has been ratified by
the Governments of the following countries :
Union of South Africa,
Commonwealth of Australia,
Brazil,
Belgium,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland,
Cuba,
Czechoslovakia,
Dominican Republic,
Germany,
Haiti,
Hungary,
India,
Netherlands,
Peru,
Poland,
Portugal,
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
United States of America; and
"Whereas it seems desirable that the said
Agreement should be put in force between those
Governments which have ratified it, the Gov-
ernments of the Union of South Africa, the
Connnonwealth of Australia, Brazil, Belgium,
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, Cuba, &c.
"Now, therefore, the undersigned being duly
authorised by their respective Governments
have agreed as follows :
"Article 1
"The Agreement shall be regarded as having
come into force in respect of the Governments
signatories of the present Protocol, on the 1st
September, 1937.
"Article 2
"After the 31st August, 1942. the Agreement
shall continue in force among the said Govern-
ments for a period of two years from that
date.
"Article 3
"The i^resent Protocol shall bear this day's
date and shall remain open for signature until
the 31st August, 1942. It shall take effect in
respect of each signatory Government on the
date of signature.
"In witness whereof the undersigned, beina;
duly authorised thereto by their respective Gov-
ermnents, have signed the present Protocol and
liave affixed thereto their seals.
"Done in London on the day of ,
1942, in a single copy which shall be deposited
in the archives of the Government of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire-
land, and of which certified copies shall be
furnished to the signatory Governments."
FRIENDSHIP
Treaty Between China and Iraq
The American Ambassador at Chungking re-
[lorted by a despatch dated June 17, 1942, that
the Treaty of Friendship between China and
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Iraq signed on March 16, 1942, was ratified by
the Executive Yiian of tlie Chinese Government
on June 16, 1942.
A tentative translation of the text of the
treaty which appeared in the press, Al-Iraq, of
May 8, 1942, as furnished by the Legation at
Baghdad, follows:
"His Majes'it the King of Iraq and His
Excellency hie Peesident or the Nation^vl
Go\'EENMENT OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC
"AVhereas they desire to establish and consol-
idate the ties of sincere friendship and good
understanding existing between their two coun-
tries, have, for this purpose, agreed to conclude
a Treaty of Friendship and appointed the fol-
lowing as their Plenipotentiaries :
"His Majesty the King or Iraq :
"Dr. Abdullah Damaluji, Mirmter for For-
eign A-ffairs
"His Excellency the President of the Na-
tional Go\'KRNment of the Chinese
Republic :
"Dr. Chang Peng-Chun, Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the
Chinese Republic to Turkey;
"Who after having communicated their full
powers, found in good and due form, have
agreed as follows :
"Article I
"There shall prevail between the Kingdom of
Iraq and the Chinese Republic and between the
nationals of both countries, permanent peace
and sincere perpetual friendship.
"Article II
"Each of the High Contracting Parties agrees
to establish diplomatic relations on the bases of
the Public International Law, and they agree
that the diplomatic representatives of any of
the two in the territory of the other shall enjoy,
on the basis of reciprocity, all the rights, priv-
ileges and immunities generally recognized by
the Public International Law.
"Article III
"Each of the High Contracting Parties agrees
to conclude a special agreement between the two
countries at a later date to oi-ganize consular and
commercial relations between them and also to
stipulate the terms of residence by the nationals
of any of the two in the territory of the other
party.
"Article IV
"This Treaty shall be ratified as soon as pos-
sible and shall be considered as effective fifteen
days after the exchange of the instruments of
ratification. The exchange of the instruments
of ratification shall take place at Ankara.
"In faith whereof the respective Plenipoten-
tiaries have signed the present Treaty and af-
fixed thereto their seals.
"Done in duj)licate this 27th day of Safar
1361 Hijra corresponding to the 16th day of
the third month of the 31st year of the Chinese
Republic or March 16, 1942."
COMMERCE
Agreement with the Soviet Union
The commercial agreement between the
United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, effective on August 6, 1937 (Execu-
tive Agreement Series 105) and renewed during
successive years, was continued in force until
August 6, 1943 by an exchange of notes on July
31, 1942 between the Secretary of State and the
Soviet Ambassador. The text of the identic
notes, together with the text of the 1937 agree-
ment, appears in this Bulletin under the head-
ing "Commercial Policy".
Trade-Agreement Negotiations with Iran
An announcement regarding intention to ne-
gotiate a trade agreement with the Government
of Iran, together with tables showing trade be-
tween the two countries during 1929^0, appears
in this Bulletin under the heading "Commercial
Policy".
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681
Legislation
First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation
Act, 1943: An Act Making supplemental appropria-
tions for tlie national defense for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes. Ap-
proved, Jul.v 25, 1942, [H. R. 7319.1 Public Law
678, 77th Cong. 20 pp.
Alaska Highway : Hearings before a subcommittee of
the Committee on Foreign Relations, U. S. Senate,
77th Cong., 2d sess., on S. Res. 253, a resolution pro-
viding for an Inquiiy into the location of the Alaska
Highway on the so-called C or prairie route. June 1,
12, and 16, 1942. iv, 91 pp.
Department of State
Publications of the Department of State (a list cumu-
lative from October 1, 1929). July 1, 1942. Publi-
cation 1767. 31 pp. Free.
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BULLETIN
AUGUST 8, 1942
Vol. VII, No. 163— Publication 1782
C
ontents
The War Paec
Visit to Washington of the Queen of the Netherlands . . 685
Relief ships to Greece 686
Visit of the King of Yugoslavia to the United States . 687
Proclaimed List: Supplement 5 to Revision II ... . 688
International Conferences, Commissions, Etc.
International Wheat Council 688
American Republics
Message from President Roosevelt to the President of
Colombia 689
Arrangement for migration to the United States of
Mexican farm labor . . . . _ 689
Death of the Foreign Minister of El Salvador .... 690
Death of Dr. Gil Borges of Venezuela 690
Rubber agreement with Honduras 690
Europe
Birthday of the King of Norway 691
The Department
Creation of the Office of the Chief Clerk and Adminis-
trative Assistant 691
Appointment of officers 692
Treaty Information
Postal: Universal Postal Convention, 1939 693
Health: International Agreement Relating to Statistics
of Causes of Death 693
[over]
U. S, SUPERINTENDENT OF OOCJCifN"
SEP 2 1942
0
onten f s-continued
Treaty Information — Continued
Commerce: Page
Agreement with the Soviet Union 693
Memorandum of Agreement Regarding International
Trade in Wheat 693
Strategic materials: Rubber Agreement with Hon-
duras 693
Agriculture: Farm-Labor-Migration Arrangement with
Mexico 694
Publications 694
Legislation 694
The War
VISIT TO WASHINGTON OF THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS
[Released to the press by the White Ho^se August 5]
At a dinner at the White House on August 5
honoring Queen Wilhehnina of the Nether-
lands, the President made the following toast
to the Queen:
"I think that all of us at this table tonight
realize the symbolism of the visit of Her Maj-
esty to this country of ours. We know the
great part played by the Dutch people in the
exploration and colonization that began in the
earliest days of American history.
"And we remember that very soon after we
engaged in war to gain our independence it
■was a Dutch officer on a Dutch island in the
West Indies who fired one of the first salutes
to the flag of the United States carried on
an American warship under the command of
Captain Isaiah Robinson.
"The friendship between our great nations
has never ceased. It has been the friendship
of peoples who lived for the same kind of
human rights and the same kind of national
independence.
"May I add a personal note ? The people of
this great democracy everywhere hold tlie head
of the Netherlands Nation in respect not alone
for her great leadership and high achievements,
but they have in addition a deep and affec-
tionate regard for her personality as the
Mother of her people.
"My wife and I will always i-emember the
privilege we have had and are having in a
personal friendship with her and her daughter
and her grandchildren. That friendship will
always endure.
"All of us here tonight join in a toast to the
Queen."
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Responding to the President's toast, the
Queen said:
"I am greatly touched by the friendly wel-
come you and Mrs. Roosevelt have extended to
me at the Wliite House.
"This visit to this capital city is to me the
culminating point of my stay in the United
States.
"Great thoughts have been thought here, and
great decisions taken, and the portraits of your
predecessors which adorn these walls are a
most expressive epitome of America's stirring
history.
"I know that when you make me feel a wel-
come guest your thoughts are, like mine, with
my country, where at this time, in East and
West, oppression breeds resistance and cruelty
increases determination to hold out.
"These hard times will pass, and when at
last victory will be ours my compatriots, like
myself, will know that this will be largely
thanks to American spiritual and material
forces alongside thcce of the other United
Nations.
"I therefore raise my glass to drink the toast
of your health, Mr. President, as the head of
this great country, and of the success of its
armed forces."
[Released to the press by the White House August 6]
At the Washington Navy Yard on August 6,
on the occasion of the transfer of a new warship
to the Netherlands Government under the
Lend-Lease Act, the President spoke as follows :
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Yoxm Majesty :
From the earliest days of history, the people
of the Netherlands — ^your people — have been
willing to fight for their freedom and independ-
ence. They have won out in the face of great
odds.
Once more they are fighting for that inde-
pendence. Once more they will win and main-
tain it.
We, too, are fighting for our freedom, and it
is natural and right that the Netherlands and
the United States have joined hands in the com-
mon struggle.
The gallant exploits of your countrymen have
won the admiration of all the other peoples of
the world — first in the Netherlands itself and
later in the Netherlands Indies where, in the
face of overwhelming numbers, your sons and
our sons went down fighting to the bitter end
on land and sea and in the air. Their memory
inspires us to redouble our efforts for the cause
for which they gave their lives.
The Netherlands Navy is today adding fresh
laurels to those already won in battle from the
North Sea to the Java Straits. We Americans
can know no better cause than to assist your
gallant Navy.
It is, therefore, as a tangible expression of
our admiration for all that the Netherlands
Navy has done and is doing that I have the
great pleasure of turning over to you, imder the
provisions of the Lend-Lease Act, this ship.
Built by American workers in American
yards, she will hereafter fly the brave ensign of
the Netherlands.
And she will bear the name of one who has
come to stand in the eyes of the world as a
symbol of Netherlands' courage and Nether-
lands' determination.
For it is as the Queen Wilhelmlna that she
will embark upon her new career.
I ask Your Majesty to receive this ship as
a symbol of the friendship and admiration of
the people of the United States.
The response of Her Majesty Wilhelmin'j,
Queen of the Netherlands, follows:
Mb. President:
I am very happy that the transfer of this ves-
sel under the provisions of the lend-lease agree-
ment takes place during my presence in Wash-
ington. This enables me to thank you per-
sonally for your gracious initiative and for
your continued personal interest.
I see in this ceremony fresh evidence of the
excellent spirit of friendship which ever since
the days of Paul Jones has existed between our
two Navies.
This admirable vessel, replete with the most
modern technical devices, is a valuable addi-
tion to our naval forces.
It will operate in close collaboration with
the United States Navy against our common
enemies. The officers and crew will do all
they can to live up to the friendly thought to
which we owe this new unit of our Navy.
I have gladly accepted your suggestion to
give it my name.
IVIay your love of the sea and of seaman-
ship pervade this vessel and inspire those on
board.
With this wish I now commission the Queen
Wilhelmina.
RELIEF SHIPS TO GREECE
(Eel eased to the press August 71
On the initiative of the Swedish Red Cross,
negotiations were undertaken some months ago
thiough the Swedish Govermnent regarding
relief for the starving population of Greece.
The Swedish Government having expressed its
willingness that Swedish vessels lying in Swed-
ish ports be employed for this purpose, the
United States, British, and Canadian Govern-
ments immediately declared themselves ready
to authorize monthly shipments of 15,000 tons
of wheat or flour from North America to
Greece, subject to appropriate conditions gov-
erning the distribution of these imports and of
Greek native produce in the interests of the
Greek people and on the understanding that
a neutral commission would receive the neces-
sary control and reporting facilities from the
AUGUST 8, 194 2
687
occupying powers. Following the negotia-
tions conducted by the Swedish Government,
the German and Italian Governments agreed
to this proposal. The belligerent powers have
accordingly granted safe conducts for the voy-
ages of the Swedish vessels which will be used.
The first three, the Formosa, the Eros, and
the CameJia, ha%'e already loaded and are
scheduled to leave Montreal on August 7 for
Greece. A Swedish-Swiss commission has been
set up to handle the actual distribution of the
supplies, under the general supervision of the
existing organization of the International Red
Cross Committee, in Greece.
The Greek Government, the American and
Canadian Red Cross Societies, and the Greek
War Relief Association are actively supporting
and cooperating in the operation of this plan.
Reports reaching the Department of State
from Greece have portrayed conditions of suf-
fering from inanition and death from starva-
tion appalling almost beyond belief.
Information has also been received through
American officials recently returning from Eu-
rope confirming that the small quantities of
foodstuffs which have been sent to Greece dur-
ing the past year under the United Nations'
auspices and with the cooperation of the Turk-
ish Government have been effectively distrib-
uted through the agency of the Internationa]
Red Cross Committee and consumed by the
Greek people only. The reports of these offi-
cials indicttte, however, that although these
supplies have unquestionably saved many per-
sons from death they have been inadequate to
prevent further deterioration of the general
food-supply situation.
VISIT OF THE KING OF YUGOSLAVIA
TO THE UNITED STATES
[Released to the press August 4]
An exchange of telegrams between the Presi-
dent of the United States and His Majesty
King Peter II of Yugoslavia follows,
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"July 29, 1942.
"At the moment of my departure from the
United States, I wish to thank you, Mr. Presi-
dent, for the warm welcome which you and the
American people have extended to me during
my visit to this great country.
"I cannot but feel that the many tokens of
warmth and hospitality which I gratefully
accepted during my stay were intended not for
me alone but for my people who have always
had the greatest sympathy and admiration for
their American brothers.
"When a few weeks ago I crossed the ocean
to come to the United States I considered my-
self a messenger of my martyred people who
are now living through their most trying days
resisting the invaders and straining all their
forces toward final victory.
"Over a year ago the Yugoslav people gath-
ered in the streets of Belgrade and asked me to
be with them to protect their liberty. At that
time we found inspiration in the hope that the
United States would stand by all those who
preferred to fight rather than to submit to the
infamy of slavery.
"Today American soldiers have become our
comrades-in-arms on every battlefield — on
land, in the air and on the seas — wherever the
battle is waged. From their homes darkened
by mourning, from their refuges in the moun-
tains and in the forests, the people of Europe
admired the achievements of your soldiers,
seamen and pilots, and fervently pray for
their continued success.
"I was privileged to see something of the
American war effort in your training camps,
in your plants and factories. I saw the shining
arms and planes ready to be sent to battle, so
formidable and so perfect that any fighting
man must be proud to handle them. I have
observed the spirit of American men and
women, I have seen the resolution and deter-
mination written on their faces, and I am con-
vinced that nothing can ever stop the United
States in its onward march to victory. A de-
mocracy which fights entirely with the clean
weapons of democracy must needs win the war
and the peace that will follow,
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
"The Yugoslavs, one of the United Nations,
feel that they shall be linked to the United
States as much in this present war as in the
future peace. My people and I cherish our
friendship with the United States and are
deeply grateful for its help and support in
this, the most momentous period of their his-
tory.
"I wish to thank you also, Mr. President, for
the warm personal kindness you have shown me
and I wish you and your family, and the en-
tire American nation all strength and happiness
today and ever.
Peter"
"The White House, Jxdy 31, 1942.
"Your Majesty's visit was a personal pleasure
which I shall long remember. It gave also to
the American people an opportunity to do honor
to the valiant Yugoslav People in their noble
and unceasing fight for the liberation of their
country.
"I noted with pleasure the energy and thor-
ouglmess with which you entered into the daily
life of America at war, seeking out the men
at work and studying the conversion of our great
industries to the sole purpose of providing the
armaments with which the war shall be won.
I am glad that you carried with you the con-
viction of America's determination to press on
to victory with everything we have.
Franklin D Roosevelt"
PROCLAIMED LIST: SUPPLEMENT 5
TO REVISION II
[Released to the press August 3]
The Secretary of State, acting in conjunction
with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attor-
ney General, the Secretary of Commerce, the
Board of Economic Warfare, and the Coordi-
nator of Inter-American Affairs, on August 3
issued Supplement 5 to Revision II of the Pro-
claimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals,
promulgated May 12, 1912.'
' 7 Federal Register 5970.
Part I of this supplement contains 167 ad-
ditional listings in the other American repub-
lics and 31 deletions. Part II contains 99 addi-
tional listings outside the American reirablics
and 9 deletions.
International Conferences,
Commissions, Etc.
INTERNATIONAL WHEAT COUNCIL
[Released to the press August 6]
The International Wheat Council, which
met for the first time in the offices of the
United States Department of Agriculture on
Monday, August 3, concluded its sessions on
Wednesday, August 5. Following the an-
nouncement on July 2 of the approval of the
Memorandum of Agreement regarding interna-
tional trade in wheat between the Governments
of Argentina, Australia, Canada, the United
Kingdom, and the United States,^ the five Gov-
ernments named as their delegates to the
Council the following officials :
Argentina:
Sefior A. M. Viacava, Commercial Counselor, Argen-
tine Embassy (London)
Senor Miguel E. QuirDO-Laralle, Commercial Coun-
selor, Argentine Embassy (Washington)
Australia:
Mr. E. McCarthy, Assistant Secretary, Department
of Commerce (Canberra)
Mr. F. L. McDougall, Economic Adviser to the
Australian Government (London)
Canada:
Mr. Lester B. Pearson, Minister Counselor, Cana-
dian Legation (Washington)
Mr. A. M. Shaw, Director of Marketing Service,
Department of Agriculture (Ottawa)
Mr. C. F. Wilson, Chief, Agricultural Branch, Do-
minion Bureau of Statistics (Ottawa)
Mr. J. J. Deutsch, Special Wartime Assistant to
the Department of External Affairs (Ottawa)
United Kingdom:
Mr. Noel Hall, British Minister to the United
States (Washington)
' Bulletin of August 1, 1£M2, p. 670.
AUGUST 8, 194 2
689
Mr. B. Twentyman, British Food Mission to the
United States (Washington)
United States:
Mr. Paul Appleby, Under Secretary of Agriculture
(Washington)
Mr. Leslie A. Wheeler, Director, Office of Foreign
Agricultural Relations, Department of Agri-
culture (Washington)
Mr. N. B. Dodd, Director, Western Division, Agri-
cuiltural Adjustment Administration, Depart-
ment of Agriculture (Washington)
Mr. K. M. Carr, Assistant Chief, Division of Com-
mercial Policy and Agreements, Department of
State (Washington)
The first meeting was largely devoted to
questions of organization. Mr. Paul Appleby
was elected chairman of the Council. The
Council established an Executive Committee,
under the chairmanship of Mr. Leslie A.
Wheeler, consisting of one delegate from each
of the five Governments. Mr. Andrew Cairns
was appointed secretary of the Council.
The Council discussed the positive measures
contemplated to control production in 1943
with the object of minimizing the accumulation
of excessive stocks and instructed the Secre-
tariat to prepare, under the direction of the
Executive CoHunittee, a comprehensive report
on the measures being employed in each coun-
try to control production. The Council took
note of recent increases in yields per acre in
several producing areas, and the Executive
Committee was asked to consider the influences
bearing on any trends in this connection.
The next meeting of the Council will be held
in January 1943.
American Republics
MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
TO THE PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA
[Released to the press August 7]
The President has addressed the following
telegram to His Excellency Dr. Alfonso Lopez
on the occasion of his assuming the Presidency
of Colombia:
" The White House, August 7, 19^2.
" I take pleasure in extending to Your Excel-
lency my sincere and whole-hearted congratu-
lations as you assume the Presidency of
Colombia.
" The unswerving devotion of the people of
Colombia to the democratic processes is one of
the proudest of our common heritages. I look
forward with profound gratification to another
period of fruitful collaboration with you as
the chosen representative of the people of your
great country. Now, more than ever, in the
critical days through which we are passing,
must there be justified the faith of our peoples
in the ability of their governments to face
courageously a multitude of exacting problems
and to defeat wholly and conclusively the ene-
mies of our Christian civilization.
"I welcomed the opportunity, afforded me
by your recent visit, to confirm our personal
friendship and to reaffii-m our devotion to the
ideals by which our coimtries are ever more
closely bound.
"Please accept, dear Mr. President, my fer-
vent wishes for a successful and happy admin-
istration and for the welfare of the people of
the Republic of Colombia.
Franklin D Roosevelt"
ARRANGEMENT FOR MIGRATION TO THE
UNITED STATES OF MEXICAN FARM
LABOR
[Released to the press August 6]
The Department of State announced on
August 6 that an arrangement had been made
between the Government of the United States
and the Government of Mexico to make pos-
sible the temporary migration of Mexican
agricultural workers to the United States to
meet the increasing demand for farm labor
caused by the war emergency. The arrange-
ment, which demonstrates the effective coopera-
tion between the two Governments in the war
effort, provides guaranties as to wage rates,
living conditions, and repatriation for the
Mexican workers, while specifying that they
are not to be employed to replace other workers
690
or for the purpose of reducing rates of pay
previously established.
At the request of the Department of Agri-
culture, the War Manpower Commission, and
other appropriate agencies of this Government,
and after the United States Employment Serv-
ice had certified to the existence of certain
shortages of agricultural workers in the South-
west, the Department of State recently pro-
posed to the Mexican Government a plan for
this migration. It was pointed out by the De-
partment of Agriculture and other agencies
that the enrolment of men in the armed serv-
ices, the movement of farm workers into in-
dustry, and the Government's program to
increase agricultural production to meet war-
time needs were causing a shortage of agri-
cultural labor which could not be met by the
recruiting of workers in the United States.
The arrangement made with the Mexican
Government is to be administered by the Farm
Security Administration of the Department of
Agriculture in cooperation with other inter-
ested agencies, and it states that each worker
is to be given a written contract, upon the
expiration of which he is to return to Mexico.
The arrangement also provides that as tem-
porary residents these workers will be ex-
empted from compulsory military service in
the armed forces of the United States.
Further details regarding the arrangement
are being announced by the War Manpower
Commission and the Department of Agricul-
ture.
DEATH OF THE FOREIGN MINISTER
OF EL SALVADOR
[Released to the press August 3]
The Acting Secretary of State, Sumner
Welles, has made the following statement:
"I have learned with deep regret of the death
of Dr. Miguel Angel Araujo, the Salvadoran
Minister of Foreign Affairs. Respected uni-
versally throughout the New World for his tal-
ents and statesmanship, Dr. Araujo died a few
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
days before his eightieth birthday, after serv-
ing his country for over ten years as Foreign
Minister. In his policies he showed himself
a staunch foe of totalitarianism and a true
friend of Pan American ideals. The Govern-
ment of the United States shares the grief of
President Martinez, the Salvadoran people, and
Dr. Araujo's family, at his passing."
DEATH OF DR. GIL BORGES
OF VENEZUELA
(Releasea to the press August 4]
The Acting Secretary of State has sent the
following telegram to His Excellency Dr. Ca-
racciolo Parra-Perez, Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs of Venezuela, on the occasion of the death
of Dr. Esteban Gil Borges:
"August 4, 1942.
"I have learned with the very deepest regret
of the death of Doctor Esteban Gil Borges. I
share with Your Excellency and with Dr. Gil
Borges' many friends throughout Venezuela and
the United States a keen sense of personal loss.
"During the years Dr. Gil Borges was in
Washington he endeared himself to all those
who had the good fortune to be associated with
him. His untiring devotion to the strengthen-
ing of the friendship between Venezuela and
the United States and to the great cause of
inter-American relations, and his brilliant prac-
tical demonstrations of that devotion during his
two periods as Foreign Minister of your great
country have earned him a lasting place in the
grateful memory of the people of the United
States.
Sumner Welles"
RUBBER AGREEMENT WITH HONDURAS
[Released to the press August .3]
The signing of a rubber agreement with the
Republic of Honduras was announced on Au-
gust 3 by the Department of State, the Rubber
Reserve Company, and the Board of Economic
Warfare.
AUGUST 8;, 1942
691
Under the terms of the agieement the Rubber
Reserve Company will, until December 31, 1946,
purchase all rubber produced in Honduras which
is not required for essential domestic needs there.
Europe
BIRTHDAY OF THE KING OF NORWAY
[Released to the press August 3]
The President has sent the following telegi'am
to His Majesty Haakon VII, King of Norway,
on the occasion of His Majesty's seventieth birth-
day:
"The White House, August 3, 19J^.
"I am particularly happy to extend m.y heart-
felt felicitations upon this the seventieth an-
niversary of Your Majesty's birth. The inflexi-
ble determination shown by the Norwegian
people in their fight to roll back the black
shadows of Nazism owes no little of its strength
to the example set by Your Majesty's own
superb courage.
"May God gi-ant to the Norwegian people a
long continuance of your wise leadership and
victorious outcome of their travail.
Fkanklin D Roosevelt"
The Department
CREATION OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF
CLERK AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIST-
ANT
The Secretary of State, on August 6, 1942,
issued the following Departmental order (no.
1078) :
"There is hereby created in the Department
of State the Office of the Chief Clerk and Ad-
ministrative Assistant which shall exercise
supervision in all matters relating to the ad-
ministration of the Department within the
scope of the functions of this Office which
shall embrace:
"The administration of the appropriation
'Contingent Expenses, Department of State',
including the preparation and justification of
budget estimates therefor and the responsi-
bility for the control of expenditures there-
luider; the allotment of office space, the cus-
tody of the property of the Department, and
the maintenance of a current inventory; the
authentication of certificates under the seal of
the Department of State, for and in the name
of the Secretary of State or the Acting Secre-
tary of State, and the operation of the co-
ordinating service for translating documents
for the Federal Government; the assembling
for the Department of State of appropriate
material for exhibition purposes at expositions,
national and international, its preparation and
installation, the care and maintenance of exhib-
its, and responsibility for all expenditures con-
nected therewith; supervision of the telephone
switchboard and the telephone service of the
Department ; the initiation and enforcement of
such general regulations as may be required
for the proper business management of the
Department; the signing of such papers as
fall within the scope of his Office; the direc-
tion, as head of the Purchasmg and Inventory,
Duplicating, Supply, Photographic, Telephone
and Mail Sections of his Office, and such addi-
tional duties as may be delegated to him by the
Secretary of State and the Assistant Secretary
of State and Budget Officer.
"The Chief Clerk and Administrative Assist-
ant is the Department's Liaison Officer with
other Executive Departments and Agencies of
the Government in all matters relating to the
functions of his Office.
"The Chief Clerk and Administrative Assist-
ant is hereby authorized to sign contracts, upon
the written authorization of the Assistant
692
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
Secretary of State and Budget Officer or, in his
absence, another Assistant Secretary of State,
for contingent expenses under tlie appropri-
ation 'Contingent Expenses, Department of
State', under appropriations for passport
agencies, international commissions, confer-
ences, congresses, conventions, meetings and
expositions, and under miscelhaneous appro-
priations. He shall certify vouchers covering
expenditures coming under the appropriation
'Contmgent Expenses, Department of State'
and covering such other miscellaneous obliga-
tions as he may, under written authorization
from the Assistant Secretary of State and
Budget Officer, or in his absence, another Assist-
ant Secretary of State, be directed to incur.
He may, in special cases, waive the requirement
of advance payment for unofficial photostat
work in accordance with the provisions of
Departmental Order 529. He shall certify to
the authorization of other officers to approve
vouchers covering expenditures from miscel-
laneous appropriations. He shall consolidate
in his Office and shall be responsible for the
supervision of the purchasing functions of the
Department; he shall establish in his Office a
centralized mail reception and distribution
center and shall supervise the handling of
diplomatic pouches in collaboration with the
Division of Foreign Service Administration,
the receipt and distribution of incoming mail
and the dispatch of all outgoing conespondence
by mail.
"The Chief Clerk and Administrative Assist-
ant is authorized and directed to certify, with-
out seal, for and in the name of the Secretary
of State or the Acting Secretary of State, a
copy of each treaty or convention proclaimed
by the President on or after January 23. 1934,
and likewise a copy of every other international
agreement entered into by the United States
with a foreign country on or after January
23, 1934, which when so certified will be for-
warded by the Department to the xVmerican
Minister at Bern for transmission by him to
the Secretary General of the League of Nations
for registration by the Secretariat of the
League and publication in the League of Na-
tions Treaty Series.
"The Chief Clerk and Administrative Assist-
ant is authorized to take appropriate adminis-
trative action on notifications of undue delay in
the handling of correspondence, in accordance
with the provisions of Departmental Order
724.
"He shall also exercise the functions previ-
ously delegated to the Director of Personnel
under the following Departmental Orders :
Departmental Order 800, relating to the report-
ing of mail matter sent free of postage;
Departmental Order 824, relating to the dis-
position of records and files; and Departmental
Order 989, relating to the preparation, produc-
tion, and distribution of publications and in-
formational matter.
"Mr. Millard L. Kenestrick is hereby desig-
nated Chief Clerk and Administrative Assist-
ant of the Department.
"The symbol of the Office of the Chief Clerk
and Administrative Assistant shall be CC.
The symbol of the Diplomatic Pouch and Mail
Section shall continue to be MA.
"The Director of Personnel is authorized to
obtain the essential personnel assistance for the
Office of the Chief Clerk and Administrative
Assistant within the limits of appropriated
funds.
"The provisions of this Order shall be effec-
tive immediately and .shall supersede the pro-
visions of any existing Order in conflict there-
with."
APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
Mr. Lloyd D. Yates, a Foreign Service officer
of class VII, was designated an Acting Assist-
ant Chief of the Division of Foreign Activity
Correlation, effective August 6, 1942 (Depart-
mental Order 1079).
AUGUST S, 194 2
693
Treaty Information
POSTAL
Universal Postal Convention, 1939
France — French colonies
The American Charge at Vichy transmitted
to the Secretary of State with a despatch dated
June 10, 1942 a copy of decree no. 1612 dated
June 1, 1942, concerning the promulgation by
the Government of France of the Universal Pos-
tal Convention and annexed arrangements
signed at Buenos Aires on May 23, 1939. The
decree states that in virtue of the deposit with
the Government of Argentina on June 26, 1941
of the instruments of ratification of the acts
signed on Maj' 23, 1939, including the Univer-
sal Postal Convention, the Arrangement Con-
cerning Letters and Parcels of Declared Value,
the Arrangement Concerning Parcel Post, the
Arrangement Concerning Money Orders, the
Arrangement Concerning Postal Transfers,
the Arrangement Concerning Postal Collections,
and the Arrangement Concerning Subscriptions
to Periodicals, these acts shall be valid for
France, Algiers, Tunisia, Morocco, and all
French colonies, including the African terri-
tories under French mandate of Togoland and
Cameroons.
HEALTH
International Agreement Relating to Statistics
Of Causes of Death
Egypt
By a note dated August 1, 1942 the British
Charge at Washington informed the Secretary
of State that the Egyptian Government has no-
tified the British Government, in accordance
with paragraph 2 of the Protocol of Signature
to the International Agreement Relating to Sta-
tistics of Causes of Death, signed at London
on June 19, 1934 (Executive Agreement Series
80), of the cancellation of the application of
the agreement to the town of Burdein, owing
to the suppression of the health inspectorate of
that town.
COMMERCE
Agreement with the Soviet Union
[Released to the press August .S]
On August 1, 1942 the President proclaimed
the agreement between the United States of
America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics eilected by an exchange of identic notes,
signed at Washington on July 31, 1942,^ by
which the commercial agreement of August 4,
1937 between the two Governments is continued
in force until August 6, 1943 and thereafter,
unless superseded by a more comprehensive
commercial agreement, subject to termination
on six months' written notice by either
Government.
Memorandum of Agreement Regarding
International Trade in Wheat
An announcement concerning the establish-
ment of an International Wheat Council and
the appointment of the United States delegates
thereto appeared in the Bulletin of August 1,
1942, page 670.
An announcement concerning the first meet-
ing of the International Wheat Council appears
in this Bulletin under the heading "Commercial
Policy".
STRATEGIC MATERIALS
Rubber Agreement with Honduras
An announcement concerning the signing of
a rubber agreement with the Government of
Honduras appears in this Bulletin under the
heading "American Republics".
' Bulletin of August 1, 1942, p. 662.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
AGRICULTURE
Farm-Labor-Migration Arrangement
With Mexico
All announcement concerning an arrange-
ment between the Government of the United
States and the Government of Mexico for the
temporary migration of Mexican agricultural
workers to the United States appears in this
Bulletin under the heading "American Repub-
lics".
Application of Selective Traiuing and Service Act of
1940, as Amended, to Canadians in the United States,
and Reciprocal Treatment of American Citizens In
Canada : Agreement Between the United States of
America and Canada — Effected by exchange of notes
signed March 30 and April 6 and 8, 1942. Executive
Agreement Series 249. Publication 1769. 6 pp. 50.
The War and Human Freedom : Address by Cordell
Hull, Secretary of State, over the National Radio
Networks, July 23, 1942. Publication 1773. 18 pp.
50.
The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals.
Supplement 5, July 31, 1942, to Revision II of M.ny 12,
1942. Publication 1774. 16 pp.
Publications
Department of State
Exchange of Official Publications : Agreement Between
the United States of America and Liberia — Effected
by exchange of notes signed January 15, 1942 ; effec-
tive January 15, 1942. Executive Agreement Series
239. Publication 1758. 6 pp. 50.
Reciprocal Trade: Agreement Between the United
States of America and Haiti Construing Certain
Provisions of the Trade Agreement of March 28, 1935
and Modifying the Agreement Effected by Exchange
of Notes Signed February 16 and 19, 1942— Effected
by exchange of notes signed April 25, 1942. Execu-
tive Agreement Series 252. Publication 1762. 4 pp.
50.
Principles Applying to Mutual Aid in the Prosecution
of the War Against Aggression : Preliminary Agree-
ment Between the United States of America and
China — Signed at Washington June 2, 1942 ; effective
June 2, 1942. Executive Agreement Series 251. Pul>-
lication 1766. 3 pp. 50.
Legislation
Claims of American Nationals Against Mexico: Hear-
ings before a subcommittee of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 77th Cong., 2d sess.,
on S. 2528, a bill to provide for the settlement of
claims of the Government of the United States on
behalf of American nationals against the Government
of Mexico comprehended within the terms of agree-
ments concluded by the United States and Mexico.
June 30, July 1, 2, 6, 10, and 14, 1942. Iv, 230 pp.
Conservation and Utilization of the Salmon Fisheries
of the Pacific. S. Kept. 1570, 77th Cong., on S. 1712.
5 pp.
An Act To enable the United States Commission for
the Celebration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary
of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson to carry out and
give effect to certain approved plans. Approved July
:W, 1942. [S. 2330.] Public Law 688, 77th Cong.
2 pp.
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Vol. VII, No. 164^Publication 1785
ontents
The War Page
First Anniversary of the Signing of the Atlantic
Charter 697
Orders to American Military Forces in India 697
Proclaimed List: Revision III 698
Rubber Agieements With Trinidad and British
Guiana 698
American Republics
Relations With the Republic of Panama: Message
From the President of the' United States to the
Congress 698
Visit of the President of Chile to the United States . . . 701
Economic and Financial Cooperation with Bolivia . . . 702
National Anniversary of Ecuador 702
The Foreign Service
Diplomatic Confirmations 703
Treaty Information
Health: Sanitation Agreement With Bolivia 703
Consular: Convention With Mexico 704
Military Missions: Agreement With Bolivia 704
Finance: Agreement With Mexico for the Construction
of Highways 704
Opiimi: International Convention of 1912 705
Strategic Materials:
Agreement With Mexico 705
Agreements With Trinidad and British Guiana . . . 705
General Relations: General Treaty With Panama. . . 705
Legislation. 705
Publications 706
S. SUPERINTENDENT OF 0OCUM£NT»
SEP 2 1942
The War
FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE ATLANTIC CHARTER
[Released to the press by the White House August 14]
The President sent the following message to
Prime Minister Churchill, of Great Britain, on
the occasion of the first anniversary of the sign-
ing of the Atlantic Charter : ^
"A year ago today you and I, as representa-
tives of two free nations, set down and sub-
scribed to a declaration of principles common
to our peoples. We based, and continue to
base, our hopes for a better future for the world
on the realization of these principles. This
declaration is known as the Atlantic Chai'ter.
"A year ago today the nations resisting a
common, barbaric foe were units or small
groups, fighting for their existence.
"Now, these nations and groups of nations
in all the continents of the earth have united.
They have formed a great union of humanity,
dedicated to the realization of that common pro-
gram of purposes and principles set forth in
the Atlantic Charter, through world wide vic-
tory over their common enemies. Their faith
in life, liberty, independence and religious free-
dom, and in the preservation of human rights
and justice in their own lands as well as in
other lands, has been given form and substance
and power through a great gathering of peoples
now known as the United Nations.
"Freedom and independence are today in
jeopardy — the world over. If the forces of
conquest are not successfully resisted and de-
feated there will be no freedom and no inde-
pendence and no opportunity for freedom for
any nation.
"It is, therefore, to the single and suprejne
objective of defeating the Axis forces of ag-
gression that the United Nations have pledged
all their resources and efforts.
"When victory comes, we shall stand shoulder
to shoulder in seeking to nourish the great ideals
for which we fight. It is a worthwhile battle.
It will be so recognized through all the ages,
even amid the unfortunate peoples who follow
false gods today.
"We reafiirm our principles. They will bring
us to a happier world."
ORDERS TO AMEmCAN MILITARY FORCES IN INDIA
[Released to the press August 12]
The following statement of tliis Govern-
ment's policy has been made a part of the orders
to the American military forces in India:
'Bulletin of August 16, 1941, p. 125.
"1. The sole purpose of the American forces
in India is to prosecute the war of the United
Nations against the Axis powers. In the prose-
cution of the war in that area the primary aim
of the Government of the United States is to
aid China.
697
698
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULL^TEN
"2. American forces are not to indulge to the
slightest degree in activities of any other nature
unless India should be attacked by the Axis
powers, in which event American troops would
aid in defending India.
"3. American forces in India will exercise
scrupulous care to avoid the slightest participa-
tion in India's internal political problems, or
even the appearance of so doing.
"4. In event of internal disturbances Ameri-
can forces will resort to defensive measures only
should their own personal safety or that of
other American citizens be endangered or for
the necessary protection of American military
supplies and equipment."
PROCLAIMED LIST: REVISION m
[Released to the press August 14]
The Secretary of State, acting in conjunc-
tion with the Acting Secretary of the Treasury,
the Attorney General, the Secretai-y of Com-
merce, the Board of Economic Warfare, and
the Acting Coordinator of Inter-American Af-
fairs, pursuant to the proclamation by the Presi-
dent of July 17, 1941 providing for "The Pro-
claimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals", on
August 14 issued Revision III ^ of the Pro-
claimed List. Revision III supersedes and con-
solidates Revision II, dated May 12, 1942, and
the five supplements thereto.
No new additions to or deletions from the
Proclaimed List are made in this revision. Cer-
tain minor amendments are made.
Revision III follows the listing arrange-
ment used in Revision II. The list is divided
into two parts : Part I relates to listings in the
American republics and part II to listings in
countries other than the American republics.
Revision III contains a total of 9,712 listings,
of which 6,9G5 are in part I and 2,747 in part II.
RUBBER AGREEMENTS WITH TRINIDAD
AND BRITISH GUIANA
[Released to the press August 12]
The signing of rubber agreements with Trin-
idad and British Guiana was announced on Au-
gust 12 by the Department of State, the Rubber
Reserve Company, and the Board of Economic
Warfare.
Under the terms of the agreements the Rub-
ber Reserve Company will purchase, until De-
cember 31, 1946, all rubber produced in Trin-
idad and British Guiana which is not required
for essential domestic needs there.
American Republics
RELATIONS WITH THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE CONGRESS
[Released to the press by the White House August 13]
To THE Congress of tue United States :
The Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation
between the United States of America and the
Republic of Panama, effective on July 27, 1939,^
was a definitive step in the clarification of this
• Printed In 7 Federal Register 6282.
' Treaty Series 945.
Government's relations with the Republic of
Panama. The Panamanian Goverimient has
demonstrated its willingness to assume
promptly and wholeheartedly the burdens im-
posed upon it as partner in the defense of the
Panama Canal, a responsibility which was ac-
cepted by that Government under the provi-
sions of the new treaty.
AUGUST 15, 1942
699
The attitude of the Panamanian Government
in the present international crisis has been
thoroughly cooperative. On March 5, 1941 the
President of the Republic of Panama issued a
manifesto making available for use by the
United States certain defense sites in the terri-
tory of that Republic. Pending the conclu-
sions of final arrangements regarding the terms
on vs'hich these sites are to be used, the Pana-
manian Government has permitted our armed
forces to occupy and develop them. Immedi-
ately following the attack by the Japanese on
Pearl Harbor Panama declared war on the three
major Axis powers, and since has taken numer-
ous protective steps to cooperate with the other
American republics in the interest and security
of the Panama Canal and the defense of this
hemisphere.
This attitude is tangible evidence that the
relations between the two countries are now
firmly based upon a recognition of mutual
interest and a disposition to assume common
responsibilities.
In my opinion, the time has come for this
Government to make certain concessions which
have been desired by the Republic of Panama
over a period of years, and in this manner to
correct certain factors in the relations between
the two countries which do not make for confi-
dence and friendship between our two countries.
Accordingly, I deem it advisable that this
Government convey to Panama the water and
sewerage systems in the cities of Panama and
Colon ; that it relinquish its extensive real estate
holdings in the cities of Colon and Panama, so
far as these holdings are not essential to the
operation and protection of the Canal ; and that
it liquidate the credit of two and a half million
dollars made available to the Republic of Pan-
ama by the Export-Import Bank for the con-
struction of Panama's share of the Chorrera -
Rio Hato Highway, a road essential to our
defense requirements and constructed in accord-
ance with standards made essential by these
requirements.
It will be recalled that the interest of the
United States in the sanitation of the Canal
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Zone, together with that of the cities of Panama
and Colon, has been of outstanding importance.
Concurrent with the construction of the
Panama Canal, through agreement with Pan-
ama, the United States installed water and
sewerage systems in the cities of Panama and
Colon, and throughout subsequent years has
been responsible for the operation and mainte-
nance of these systems and for the sanitation of
the two cities.
I now propose to the Congress, that since in
accordance with Article VII of the Canal Con-
vention of 1903,' the "system of sewers and
waterworks shall revert to and become the prop-
erties of the cities of Panama and Colon" in the
j'ear 1957, it authorize the Government to con-
vey all its right, title and interest in the Panama
and Colon water and sewerage systems to the
Republic of Panama; ■provided, however, that
the Republic of Panama shall pay quarterly a
rate of B/0.09 per one thousand gallons or a
reasonable rate to be agreed upon by both Gov-
ernments to the appropriate Canal Zone author-
ities for water supplied at the Canal Zone
boundary; and provided, also, that the turning
over to the Government of the Republic of Pan-
ama of the physical properties of the water and
sewerage systems and the administration
thereof, including the collection of the water
rates, does not in any way modify the existing
arrangement for the responsibility for the
public health services of the cities of Panama
and Colon as specified in the second paragraph
of Article VII of the Convention between the
United States of America and Panama, signed
at Washington, November 18, 1903, which reads
as follows :
"The Republic of Panama agrees that the
cities of Panama and Colon shall comply in per-
petuity with the sanitary ordinances whether of
a preventive or curative character prescribed by
the United States and in case the Government of
Panama is unable or fails in its duty to enforce
this compliance by the cities of Panama and
Colon with the sanitary ordinances of the
' Treaty Series 431.
700
United States the Republic of Panama grants
to the United States the right and authority to
enforce the same."
This Government, in continuing to maintain
the health services in the cities of Panama and
Colon, will ask the Government of the Republic
of Panama to cooperate fully with the appro-
priate Canal Zone officials in carrying out the
proposal regarding increased participation of
Panamanian personnel in sanitation activities
in those cities as provided for in the exchange of
notes 1 accompanying the General Treaty of
March 2, 1936.
You will recall that the Panama Railroad
Company, a corporation whose stock is now
wholly owned by the United States, acquired
the Island of Manzanillo (the present site of
the city of Colon) through concessionary con-
tracts with the Republic of New Granada,
signed in 1850. 1856, and 1867. The railroad's
interest in this property was acquired for
ninety-nine years from August 1867, or until
August 1966. The reversionary rights to these
lands remained originally with the Republic of
Panama, which, however, in the Canal Conven-
tion concluded between the United States and
Panama in 1903, conveyed these rights to the
ITnited States. Thus until August 1966, the
Panama Railroad Company enjoys the usufruct
of the lands on which the city of Colon stands,
and thereafter the United States will acquire
title thereto, in perpetuity. As an element of
such ownership the railroad company has, of
course, over a period of years rented the prop-
erty in Colon to Panamanian citizens — mer-
chants, business men, and residents, and is, in
fact, the principal landlord in Colon. For ob-
vious reasons this is unsatisfactory.
I think, therefore, that this Government
should promptly withdraw from the real estate
business in the Republic of Panama and convey
to that country its rights, title and interest, as
well as its reversionary rights, to all the Pan-
ama Railroad Company land in the cities of
Panama and Colon which is not needed for the
' Published as a corporate part of the treaty, which
was signed on March 2, 1936 and proclaimed on July
27, 1939 (Treaty Series 945).
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operation of the railroad or for the operation,
maintenance, sanitation or protection of the
Canal. , . .
I also wish to invite your attention to the Act
approved July 20, 1939 (Public Numbered 200,
Seventy-sixth Congress, Chapter 335, First Ses-
sion) = authorizing an appropriation of not to
exceed $1,500,000 "to meet such expenses as the
President, in his discretion, may deem neces-
sary to enable the United States to cooperate
with the Republic of Panama in connection
with the construction of a highway between
Chorrera and Rio Hato in the Republic of
Panama".
I also wish to refer to the Act approved Au-
gust 9. 1939 (Public Numbered 361, Seventy-
s'ixth Congress, Chapter 633, First Session)^ en-
titled ''An Act Making Appropriations to Sup-
ply Deficiencies in Certain Appropriations for
the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1939 and June
30, 1840 and for Other Purposes", which con-
tains under the heading "Corps of Engineers"
the following appropriation :
"Chorrera and Rio Hato road. Republic of
Panama: To enable the United States to co-
operate with the Republic of Panama in con-
nection with the construction of a highway be-
tween Chorrera and Rio Hato, in the Republic
of Panama, as authorized by the Act approved
July 20, 1939 (Public Numbered 200, 76th Con-
gress), $1,500,000 fiscal year 1940, to remain
available until expended."
It is to be noted that, while the appropriation
of the United States for its share of the cost of
the highway amounted to $1,500,000, the Ex-
port-Import Bank, in a contract signed Febru-
ary 21, 1940 with the Banco Nacional of Pan-
ama and the Republic of Panama agreed, under
specific conditions, to cooperate in the financing
of the Panamanian share of the construction
cost to the extent of $2.-500,000.
In accordance with the provisions of the
aforesaid Acts of Congress and the arrange-
ments made by Panama with the Export-Im-
port Bank, the Ambassador of Panama in
Washington, representatives of the War De-
^ 53 Stat. 1071.
" 53 Stat. 1301.
AUGUST 15, 1942
701
partment, of the Export-Import Bank, and of
the Public Roads Administration, Federal
Works Agency, in 1940 reached a mutually ac-
ceptable basis on which the two governments
would cooperate in this work, and which pro-
vided that responsibility for the construction
of the highway would be in the hands of Pan-
amanian authorities but with the advice of en-
gineers of the Public Roads Administration.
The War Department, through the Public
Roads Administration, in 1941 stressed the ur-
gency of rapidly completing the Rio Hato
Highway and asked that every effort be made
immediately to transfer the responsibility for
this work from the Panamanian Government to
the Public Roads Administration.
The Panamanian Government agreed to this
request and the transfer of responsibility was
effected on December 29, 1941, with a request
by the Panamanian Government that, in ac-
cordance with conversations held between the
Panamanian Foreign Jlinister and the Under
Secretarj' of State in June 1941, Panama's in-
debtedness arising out of a credit made avail-
able by the Export-Import Bank be liquidated
at the earliest possible date.
With a view to effecting the proposed changes
indicated, I recommend to the Congress its con-
sideration of a draft Joint Resolution which is
hereto annexed.*
Franklin D Roosevelt
The White House,
August 13, 194B.
VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT OF CHILE
TO THE UNITED STATES
[Released to the press August 15]
An exchange of telegrams between the Presi-
dent of the United States and His Excellency
Juan Antonio Rios, President of the Repub-
lic of Chile, follows :
"The White House, August 13, 191^2.
"It would give me the greatest pleasure
were Your Excellency to find it possible to
visit this country as the guest of the Govern-
ment of the United States. In times like these
when the Republics of the Americas need more
than ever before to cooperate in the defense of
tlie Western Hemisphere and in order to insure
the preservation of the liberties of the peoples
of the Americas, I believe that the opportunities
afforded for personal meetings between the
Presidents of the American Republics serve a
singularly valuable purpose. It would give me
the greatest satisfaction to be afforded the op-
portunity of receiving Your Excellency as our
guest in Washington and thus be enabled to
confer with you with regard to problems which
vitally affect the interests of our two countries
and the interests of the Americas.
"If it were possible for you to leave Chile at
that period, I would suggest the coming month
of October as a most agreeable time for your
suggested visit.
"I trust that it may be possible for you to
honor us by the acceptance of this invitation.
"Please accept [etc.]
Franklin D Roosevelt"
* Not printed herein.
[Translation]
"Santiago, August H.
"I deeply appreciate the high honor which
Your Excellency has paid me in inviting me to
make a visit to the United States as a guest of the
Government, and I feel that the generous spon-
taneity of that invitation is most significant
of understanding and deference toward my
Government and me. I share without reserva-
tions Your Excellency's opinion that inter-
views of Chiefs of State, in circumstances as
highly serious as those under which the world is
living, serve a lofty purpose of cooperation and,
on a cordial plane of mutual respect, promote a
frank and sincere interchange of viewpoints
on the weighty problems which so vitally
concern our nations and the M'hole American
continent. With this conviction, I am very
honored to accept the invitation which Your
Excellency is good enough to extend to me for
conferences in Washington during the month
of October, and anticipating the pleasure of
exchanging views with Your Excellency, whose
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vigorous, democratic personality is so justly ad-
mired in Chile, I shall be very happy immedi-
ately to seek from the National Congress the
constitiitional authorization which will allow
me to leave the country for so lofty a purpose.
"I renow [etc.] Juan Antonio Kios'"
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COOPERA-
TION WITH BOLIVIA
[Released tn the press August 14 J
During their visit to the United States Dr.
Joaquin Espada, Minister of Finance of Bolivia,
and Dr. Alberto Crespo Gutierrez, Minister of
National Economy of Bolivia, have carried on
conversations with officials of the Government
of the United States concerning comprehensive
arrangements for economic and financial
cooperation between Bolivia and the United
States.
The economic and financial discussions with
the Bolivian Ministers have been based in large
part upon the studies made during a six-month
period in Bolivia by the United States Eco-
nomic Mission under the leadership of Mr. Mer-
win L. Bohan, a Foreign Service officer of the
United States. In addition to Mr. Bohan there
were seven other members of the Mission, in-
cluding experts in highway construction, agri-
culture, and mining. This Mission conducted a
survey in Bolivia with a view to recommending
a progi"im of economic development for Bolivia
which would include improved communications,
increased production of basic agricultural
products for export, various types of develop-
ment in the Bolivian mining industry, and the
development of the Bolivian petroleum in-
dustry.^
The discussions with Dr. Espada and Dr.
Crespo have resulted in the formulation of a
cooperative agreement for the financing by the
two Governments of the first stage of a program
of economic development through a Bolivian
development corporation. The plan thus de-
veloped will be submitted to the Bolivian Con-
gress.
' Bulletin of December 20, 1941, p. 563 ; and of July
11, 1942, iip. 621-22.
In accordance with the recommendations of
the Economic Mission the Government of the
United States has agreed to give favorable con-
sideration at the appropriate time to the prac-
ticability, under conditions then existing, of
extending, through the appropriate credit in-
stitution, credits for the financing of the second
stage of the long-term program.
The recent revision of the agreement by
which the Government of the United States
purchases a large part of Bolivian tin-produc-
tion was an integral part of the program of
economic and financial cooperation between
Bolivia and the United States. Moreover, dur-
ing the time that the Bolivian Ministers of
Finance and National Economy have been in
Washington arrangements have been com-
pleted for revision of the agreement by which
the Government of the United States purchases
Bolivian tungsten. The Government of the
United States has likewise recently entered into
an agreement with the Government of Bolivia
for the purchase of Bolivian production of raw
rubber.
The two Bolivian Ministers have discussed
with the president of the Foreign Bondholders
Protective Council, Incorporated, the possible
inauguration of discussions with a view to serv-
icing the Bolivian dollar debt, and the Minis-
ters have informed the Secretai-y of State that
they believe it may soon be possible to find a
mutually acceptable basis for subsequent for-
mal discussions.
NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY OF ECUADOR
[Released to the press August 10]
The President has addressed the following
telegram to His Excellency Carlos A. Arroyo
Del Rio, President of the Republic of Ecuador,
on the occasion of the national anniversary of
Ecuador :
"The White House, August 10, 191,2.
"On this national anniversary of Ecuador I
take the greatest pleasure in extending to Your
Excellency the heartiest best wishes of the Gov-
ernment and people of the United States for the
AUGUST 15, 1942
703
well being and prosperity of the Ecuadoran na-
tion. These solemn occasions afford the free
peoples of the Americas an opportunity soberly
to consider the bases of their national liberties
and the essential conditions of their mainte-
nance in the future. Your Government and
people may well feel the deepest gratification
for the constructive, courageous steps which
they have taken, under your leadership, to meet
the challenge of these critical times and to
counter the treacherous aims of the plotters of
world conquest. I share the profound sense of
appreciation with which the people of the
United States have welcomed the unfailing co-
operation in the defense of the freedom of the
New World of the Government and people of
Ecuador.
"Please accept [etc.]
Franklin D Koosevelt"
The Foreign Service
DIPLOMATIC CONFIRMATIONS
On August 13, 1942 the Senate confirmed the
following nominations :
Leland B. Morris, of Pennsylvania, now a
Foreign Service officer of class I and formerly
Charge of the American Embassy in Berlin, to
be American Minister to Iceland.
Thomas M. Wilson, of Tennessee, now a For-
eign Service officer of class I, to be Acting
American Minister Resident and Consul Gen-
eral to Iraq.
Treaty Information
HEALTH
Sanitation Agreement With Bolivia
By an exchange of notes dated July 15 and 16,
1942 an agreement was entered into between the
Government of the United States of America
and the Bolivian Government for the coopera-
tive development of a health and sanitation
program in Bolivia.
Under the terms of the agreement the Gov-
ernme(nt of the United States, through the
agency of the Coordinator of Inter- American
Affairs, will provide an amount not to exceed
$1,000,000 to be expended toward the develop-
ment of the program. A group of medical and
sanitation experts from the United States will
work in close cooperation with the appropriate
officers of the Bolivian Government, and tech-
nical advice and expert assistance by medical
and sanitation specialists will be made avail-
able by the United States to the Bolivian Gov-
ernment should the need for such consultation
arise. Arrangements for the detailed execu-
tion of each project, and the expenditure of the
funds for the purpose, will be agreed upon by
the Chief Medical Officer and the appropriately
designated officer of the Bolivian Government.
The projects include:
1. General disease control by epidemiologi-
cal procedures and by clinics and public
education.
2. Malaria control.
3. Yellow-fever control.
4. Care of lepers.
5. Environmental sanitation.
The agreement was concluded in accordance
with resolution XXX of the Third Meeting of
the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Ameri-
can Republics, which met at Rio de Janeiro
from January 15 to January 28, 1942. The
resolution reads as follows :
"XXX
"Improvement of Health and Sanitary
Conditions
'■'■Whereas:
"1. The American Republics are now under-
taking measures for the development of certain
common objectives and plans which will con-
tribute to the reconstruction of world order;
"2. The American Republics are now under-
taking measures seeking to conserve and de-
velop their resources of critical and strategic
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materials, to maintain their domestic economies
and eliminate economic activities prejudicial
to the welfare and security of the American
Republics ;
'*3. The defense of the Western Hemisphere
requires the mobilization of the vital forces,
human and material, of the American Repub-
lics; and
"4. Adequate health and sanitary measures
constitute an essential contribution in safe-
guardinjj the defensive powers and the ability
to resist aggression of the peoples of the Amer-
ican Republics,
"The Third Meeting of the Ministers of For-
eign Affairs of the American Republics
Resolves :
"1. To recommend that the Governments of
the American Republics take individually, or bj'
complementary agreements between two or
more of them, appropriate steps to deal with
problems of public health and sanitation, by
providing, in accordance with ability, raw mate-
rials, services and funds.
"2. To reconunend that to these ends there be
utilized the technical aid and advice of the
national health service of each country in coop-
eration with the Pan American Sanitary
Bureau."
CONSULAR
Convention With Mexico
[Released to the press August 13]
A consular convention between the United
States and Mexico was signed on August 12,
1942 at Mexico City by Mr. George S. Messer-
smith, American Ambassador at Mexico City,
and Senor Liceneiado Ezequiel Padilla, Mexi-
can Minister for Foreign Relations.
The convention defines and establishes the
duties, rights, privileges, exemj^tions, and im-
munities of consular officers of each country in
the territory of the other country. The provi-
sions of the convention are substantially similar
in most respects to the pro%'isions of consular
conventions with foreign countries signed by
the United States in recent years.
The convention will enter into force 30 days
from the date on which the ratifications of the
two Governments are exchanged. It will re-
main in force for an initial period of 5 years
and will continue in force thereafter until 6
months from the date on which either Govern-
ment shall have notified the other Govermnent
of an intention to modify or terminate the
convention.
MILITARY MISSIONS
Agreement With Bolivia
[Released to the press August 11 ]
In response to the request of tlie Government
of Bolivia an agreement was signed on xVugust
11, 1942 by the Honorable Cordell Hull, Secre-
tary of State, and Seiior Dr. Don Luis Fer-
nando Guachalla, Ambassador of Bolivia at
Washington, providing for the detail of a mili-
tary mission to Bolivia. The agreement is
effective for a period of four years beginning
with the date of signature. The services of
the mission may be extended beyond that period
at the request of the Government of Bolivia.
The agreement contains provisions similar in
general to provisions contained in agreements
between the United States and certain other
American republics providing for the detail
of officers of the United States Army or Navy
to advise the armed forces of those countries.
FINANCE
Agreement With Mexico for the Construction of
Highways
The Secretary of Commerce and the Sub-
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of
Mexico jointly announced on August 12, 19-12
AUGUST 15, 1942
705
that an agreement has been i-eached whereby
the Mexican Highway credit of $30,000,000, an-
nounced on November 19, 1941, may be used in
installments exceeding $10,000,000 a year in
order to expedite the completion of roads now
under construction, including the Inter-Ameri-
can Highway from Mexico City to the border
of Guatemala.
OPIUM
International Convention of 1912
Belgian Ctmgo - Ruanda-TJ fundi
By a note dated August 3, 1942 the Nether-
land Ambassador at Washington informed the
Secretary of State that the adlierence of the
Belgian Congo and the mandated territory of
Ruanda-Urundi to the International Opium
Convention, signed at The Hague on January
23, 1912, was notified by the Belgian Govern-
ment to the Government of the Netherlands on
July 29, 1942.
STRATEGIC MATERIALS
Agreement With Mexico
On August 12, 1942 the Secretary of Com-
merce and the Sub-Secretary of Finance and
Public Credit of Mexico jointly aimounced the
signing of an agreement under which the Ex-
port-Import Bank will extend credits up to
$6,000,000 to pay for new and second-hand
equipment and materials and for services in
the United States to aid the establishment of
the Altos Hornos steel plant at Monclova, State
of Coahuila, Mexico. Advances under the cred-
it will be evidenced by the direct obligations
of Nacional Financiera, S.A., unconditionally
guaranteed as to payment by the Govermnent
of Mexico. Expenditures for Mexican materi-
als, transportation, and services are being met
with proceeds from sale of stock of Altos Hor-
nos de Mexico, S.A., in Mexico.
Agreements With Trinidad and British
Guiana
An amioimcement regarding the signature
of agreements with Trinidad and British Gui-
ana under the terms of which the Rubber Re-
serve Company will purchase, until December
31, 1946, all rubber produced in Trinidad and
British Guiana which is not required for es-
sential domestic needs there, appears in this
Bulletin under the heading "The War".
GENERAL RELATIONS
General Treaty With Panama
A message from the President of the United
States to the Congress relating to the General
Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between
the United States and Panama, signed on March
2, 1936 and proclaimed on July 27, 1939 (Treaty
Series 945), appears in this Bulletin under the
heading "American Republics".
Legislation
Detail of officers and enlisted men to foreign govern-
ments [for the pui-pose of assisting the governments
of the other American republics in military and naval
matters]. S. Kept. 1578, 77th Cong., 2d sess., on
S. 2686. 2 pp.
The vote of Matthew Lyon, of Vermont, elected Thomas
Jefferson President in ISOl [authorizing the print-
ing of a manuscript of an article regarding this
event]. H. Kept. 2393, 77th Cong., 2d sess., on H. Res.
512. 2 pp.
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AUGUST 22, 1942
Vol. VII, No. 165— Publication 1789
G
ontents
The War p»e«
Crimes Against Civilian Populations in Occupied
Countries: Statement by the President : . . . . 709
Sinking of Five Brazilian Vessels 710
Declaration of War by Brazil on Germany and Italy . . 710
Transfer of United States Citizens From Canadian to
United States Armed Forces 711
Economic Assistance to French North Africa .... 713
Rubber Agreement With British Honduras 713
Exchange of Diplomatic and Consular Personnel and
Other Nationals 713
General
Bii-thday of the President of the Philippines 714
Commercial Policy
Mexican Exportation of Silver to the United States . . 714
The Near East
Nomination of Turkish Foreign Minister 714
International Conferences, Commissions, Etc.
Eleventh Pan American Sanitary Conference .... 715
The Department
Representation on Fisheries Committee of the War
Production Board 715
The Foreign Service
Estabhshment of Claim Board 715
Publications 715
Treaty Information
Strategic Materials: Rubber Agreement With British
Honduras ' 7i6
Armed Forces: Agreement With Canada Regarding
Transfer of United States Citizens From Canadian
to United States Armed Forces 716
Legislation 716
U. 8. SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS
SEP 8 1942
The War
CRIMES AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATIONS IN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
[Released to the press by the White House August 21]
The Secretary of State recently forwarded
to me a communication signed by the Ambassa-
dor of the Netherlands and the Ministers of
Yugoslavia and Luxembourg on behalf of the
Governments of Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg,
Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Yugoslavia, and the French National Commit-
tee in London, calling attention to the barbaric
crimes against civilian populations which are
being committed in occupied countries, par-
ticularly on the continent of Europe.
Li this communication, attention was invited
to the declaration signed in London on Jan-
uary 13, 1942 by the representatives of nine
governments whose countries are under Ger-
man occupation. This declaration afiBrmed
that acts of violence thus perpetrated against
the civilian populations are at variance with
accepted ideas concerning acts of war and po-
litical oifenses as these are understood by civi-
lized nations; stated that the punishment,
through the channel of organized justice of
those guilty and responsible for these crimes, is
one of the principal war aims of the contracting
governments; and recorded the determination
of the contracting governments in a spirit of
international solidarity to see to it that those
guilty and responsible, whatever their nation-
ality, are handed over to justice and tried and
that the sentences pronounced are carried out.
The communication which I have just re-
ceived from the chiefs of mission of the Nether-
lands, Yugoslavia, and Luxembourg states that
these acts of oppression and terror have taken
proportions and forms giving rise to the fear
480116
that as the defeat of the enemy countries ap-
proaches, the barbaric and unrelenting charac-
ter of the occupational regime will become
more marked and may even lead to the exter-
mination of certain populations.
As I stated on October 25, 1941 :
"The practice of executing scores of innocent
hostages in reprisal for isolated attacks on Ger-
mans in countries temporarily under the Nazi
heel revolts a world already inured to suffering
and brutality. Civilized peoples long ago
adopted the basic principle that no man should
be punished for the deed of another. Unable to
apprehend the persons involved in these attacks
the Nazis characteristically slaughter fifty or a
hundred innocent persons. Those who would
'collaborate' with Hitler or try to appease him
cannot ignore this ghastly warning.
"The Nazis might have learned from the last
war the impossibility of breaking men's spirit
by teri'orism. Instead they develop their
'lebensraum' and 'new order' by depths of
fright fulness which even they have never ap-
proached before. These are the acts of desper-
ate men who know in their hearts that they
cannot win. Frightfulness can never bring
peace to Europe. It only sows the seeds of
hatred which will one day bring fearful
retribution."
The Government of the United States has
been aware for some time of these crimes. Our
Government is constantly receiving additional
information from dependable sources, and it
welcomes reports from any trustworthy source
which would assist in keeping our growing
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fund of information and evidence up to date
and reliable.
The United Nations are going to win this war.
When victory has been achieved, it is the pur-
pose of the Government of the United States,
as I know it is the purpose of each of the United
Nations, to make appropriate use of the in-
formation and evidence in respect to these bar-
baric crimes of the invaders, in Europe and in
Asia. It seems only fair that they should have
this warning that the time will come when they
shall have to stand in courts of law in the very
countries which they are now oppressing and
answer for their acts.
SINiaNG OF FIVE BRAZILIAN VESSELS
tReleased to the press August 22)
An exchange of telegrams between the Presi-
dent of the United States of America and His
Excellency Getulio Vargas, President of the
United States of Brazil, follows :
"The White House, August £0, 1942.
"I have been outraged by the criminal sinking
of the five Brazilian vessels. This contemptible
action is barbaric in its utter disregard for all
decency and civilized conduct and utterly futile
in its desperate attempt to coerce and intimidate
the free people of Brazil. In this moment of
grave menace to the respect, the integrity, and
the destiny of Brazil, I reiterate once again the
abiding friendship of the people of the United
States for the people of Brazil, their profound
gratitude for the cooperation in the defense of
the hemisphere which already has resulted in
many sacrifices to Brazil, and their determina-
tion to defeat those who futilely seek to domi-
nate Brazil and all other countries that value
their freedom and independence.
"I want you to know that my thoughts and
sympathy are with you in this critical hour.
Frankun D Eoosevelt"
[Translation]
"Kio DE Janeiro, August 2£, 194^.
"In the name of the people and of the Govern-
ment of Brazil I wish to thank you and the
noble American people for your hearty and com-
forting message sent to me in connection with
the brutal assault of pirate Axis submarines
against Brazilian vessels aimed at intimidating
us and interi-upting our maritime communica-
tions. Such acts of vandalism can only
strengthen the principle of continental solidar-
ity and determined cooperation between our two
nations. We shall answer without fear disre-
garding any danger involved knowing that we
can count on the sympathy and adherence of the
American nations which are ready to defend
their sovereignty.
Getulio Vargas"
DECLARATION OF WAR BY BRAZIL ON GERMANY AND ITALY
[Released to the press by the White House August 22]
The following cablegram was dispatched by
President Roosevelt to His Excellency Getulio
Vargas, President of the United States of
Brazil :
"I have been informed that the United States
of Brazil has today recognized that a state of
war exists between Brazil, on one hand, and
Germany and Italy on the other hand.
"On behalf of the Government and people of
the United States I express to Your Excellency
the profound emotion with which this coura-
geous action has been received in this country.
This solemn decision more firmly aligns the
people of Brazil with the free peoples of the
world in a relentless struggle against the law-
less and predatory Axis powers. It adds power
and strength, moral and material, to the armies
ATTGUST 22, 1942
711
of liberty. As brothers in arms, our soldiers
and sailors will write a new page in the history
of friendship, confidence, and cooperation which
has marked since the earliest days of independ-
ence relations between your country and mine.
"The action taken today by your Government
has hastened the coming of the inevitable vic-
tory of freedom over oppression, of Christian
religion over the forces of evil and darkness.
"I send you my warmest personal regards
and expressions of the fullest confidence in the
success of our common cause."
[Released to the press August 22]
The following telegram has been sent by the
Secretary of State to His Excellency Oswaldo
Aranha, Foreign Minister of Brazil :
"August 22, 1942.
"I have received a note from the Brazilian
Ambassador in Washington informing me that
the Government of Brazil recognizes that a
state of war exists between Brazil on the one
hand and Germany and Italy on the other hand.
"The people of the United States welcome the
people of Brazil as brothers in arms and salute
their high resolve and defiant courage in taking
a position unequivocally at the side of the em-
battled freedom-loving nations of the world.
Today a heavy blow has been dealt the Axis
Powers, moral no less than military, when a
great, peaceful and law-abiding nation is driven
by improvoked acts of ruthless barbarity to
take up arms in self-defense. It comes as no
surprise to my coimtrymen that the proud Bra-
zilian Nation has chosen the risks and hardships
of battle when confronted with wanton attacks
on its sovereign dignity and rights.
"The action of the Axis Powers in attacking
your great country and people is a further dem-
onstration of the fact that those Powers will
strike at any peace-loving nation as and when to
do so will serve their purpose of world con-
quest, regardless of considerations of humanity
and international law. It also brings into bold
relief the basic principle upon which the solidar-
ity of the American republics rests, namely,
that an attack against any one of them is an
attack against all of them. Each of the twenty-
one American Republics are today equally in
danger.
"Together our two comitries will face the fu-
ture with serene confidence and high hearts.
"I take pleasure [etc.] Cordell Hull"
TRANSFER OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS FROM CANADIAN TO UNITED STATES
ARMED FORCES
[Released to the press August 20)
Through an exchange of notes at Ottawa on
March 18 and 20, 1942 the Canadian Govern-
ment agreed to the transfer to the armed forces
of the United States of certain United States
citizens and former United States citizens who
were serving in the Canadian armed forces. To
facilitate the return of these men the Canadian-
American Military Board, composed of mem-
bers of the various branches of the armed serv-
ices, was set up. Between May 5 and June 3
the Board visited many of the principal mili-
tary camps across Canada and effected the trans-
fer of over 2,000 Americans.
The texts of notes recently exchanged between
the two Governments with respect to these
transfers are quoted below.
480116—42 2
"July 10, 1942.
"Mt Dear Mr. Secretary :
"You may have been informed that, under the
terms of a recent agreement concluded between
our two Governments, approximately 2,058
United States citizens have transferred from
the Armed Forces of Canada to the Armed
Forces of the United States. As these transfers
are now virtually complete, I have been in-
structed to communicate to the United States
Government the gratitude of the Government
and people of Canada which is felt to those
United States citizens who have now left our
Forces for those of the United States.
"In this connection, the Prime Minister of
Canada recently made the following statement
in the House of Commons :
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" 'We shall be sorry to lose those United States
citizens who transfer to their own Forces. We
do not, however, wish to stand in their way if
they feel that they would sooner serve under
the flag of their own country. Whether they
are serving under our flag or under the United
States flag, they are serving in the Armed Forces
of the United Nations and are contributing to
the common victory.
" 'The Americans in our Forces came to us
when their country was still at peace. They
came because they knew that Hitler was as much
the enemy of the United States as he was the
enemy of Canada. We were grateful to them
for enlisting in our Forces — grateful because of
the assistance which they freely gave us and
grateful because they were living proofs — if
proofs were needed — of the sympathy and sup-
port of their country for our cause. We shall
always remain grateful to them. These six-
teen thousand men were forerunners of the hun-
dreds of thousands, the millions of their fellow
citizens who are today enlisted in the struggle
against the Axis.'
"Most of the United States citizens who have
been transferred to the Armed Forces of the
United States have come from the Eoyal Cana-
dian Air Force. On behalf of the Royal Cana-
dian Air Force, the Minister of National De-
fence for Air has written to the Prime Minister
of Canada as follows :
" 'The Joint Canadian-American Military
Board recently formed to repatriate American
citizens in the Canadian Armed Forces has com-
pleted its proceedings and to me, the time seems
appropriate to despatch a letter of appreciation
to the United States authorities for the services
rendered in Canada, and to the R.C.A.F. in par-
ticular, by those American citizens who early in
the war came to our as.sistance and, of their own
volition, volunteered for service in the initial
organization and operation of the British Com-
monwealth Air Training Plan, conducted under
the direction of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
" 'These young men from the United States
came to Canada and applied themselves whole-
heartedly to the early stages of our planning
and training programmes and without a doubt
their valued assistance has been greatly respon-
sible for the successes which have far surpassed
our original exjiectations.
" 'We know that, on repatriation to the
United States Armed Forces, the officers and
men who Iiave been so valuable to the Royal
Canadian Air Force will continue to apply
themselves to the war effort of the United States
of America in the same capable manner and
thereby further the common cause of our two
countries towards final victory. It is with sin-
cere regret, but pride in the part that they
played, that we part with the Americans who
fitted into our organization and formed such a
formidable team, with our own Canadian air-
men.
" 'The Royal Canadian Air Force would like
to have conveyed to these young men their
gratitude for past services, and sincere wishes
for their future successful careers with the
Armed Forces of the United States of America.
It is also desired to express appreciation for the
splendid and cooperative manner in which the
American personnel of the Joint Canadian-
American Military Board performed their du-
ties while in Canada and for the excellent im-
pression left, of their eagerness to complete the
task assigned to them. Such spirit is and will be
an inspiration to those serving under them and
go far in furthering our joint cause.'
"Believe me, my dear Mr. Hidl,
Yours very sincerely,
Leighton McCaetht"
"August 8, 1942.
"Mt Dear Mr. Charge d'Aitaikes :
"Reference is made to the Minister's note of
July 10, 1942, conmienting on the recent trans-
fer of over two thousand United States citizens
from the armed forces of Canada to the armed
forces of the United States and expressing tlie
appreciation of the Government and people of
Canada for the services which these men ren-
dered while serving with the Canadian forces.
AUGUST 22, 1942
713
"A copy of Mr. McCarthy's note was sent to
the Secretary of War who has requested me to
communicate the following message to the Ca-
nadian Government :
" 'The War Department wishes to express to
the Canadian Government its acknowledgment
and appreciation of the training which the Ca-
nadian Armed Forces, including the Royal
Canadian Air Force, have given to those United
States citizens who have now been transferred to
the Armed Forces of their own country. These
citizens return to us benefited by advantages of
training and experience provided to them by the
Dominion of Canada. That training and expe-
rience will not be lost to Canada, however, for
although the uniform worn by these men will
henceforth be different, the cause for which they
fight — the cause of Freedom, shared by all the
United Nations — remains the same. To the
Canadian Government, which gave its full co-
operation to the Canadian-American Military
Board in its work of arranging the transfers,
the War Department extends its gratitude.'
"I have also informed the Secretary of the
Navy of Mr. McCarthy's note and am now in
receipt of a letter from the Acting Secretary
who has asked me to express the sincere appre-
ciation of the Navy Department for the fine
cooperation shown the Canadian-American
Military Board during its trip through Canada
and to state that without this cooperation it
would have been impossible to have effected, in
such a short time and with such facility, the
transfer of American citizens fi'om the armed
forces of Canada to the United States armed
forces.
"In communicating the above to your Gov-
ernment, I should appreciate your adding my
personal view that these young men who have
now returned to serve in the American forces
will constitute a group of ambassadors of good
will to spread throughout the United States
the story of Canada's great contribution to the
common war effort.
"Sincerely yours,
CoRDELi, Hull"
ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO FRENCH
NORTH AFRICA
The exchange of goods with French North
Africa, under the terms of an economic accord,
has been resumed.^ Two French ships sailed
on August 9 from the United States for Casa-
blanca, carrying supplies of a non-military na-
ture for the use of the local population. These
are supplies of which French North Africa is
in great need and which under present condi-
tions can only be furnished by the United States.
American consular agents stationed in Morocco,
Algiers, and Tunisia will supervise their distri-
bution.
On August 11 two other ships sailed from
Casablanca, carrying a mixed cargo of cork,
tartar, olive oil, and other North African prod-
ucts for the United States.
RUBBER AGREEMENT WITH BRITISH
HONDURAS
[Released to the press August 18]
The signing of a rubber agreement with
British Honduras was announced on August
18 by the Department of State, the Rubber Re-
serve Company, and the Board of Economic
Warfai-e.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Rub-
ber Reserve Company will purchase, until De-
cember 31, 1946, all rubber produced in British
Honduras which is not required for essential
domestic needs there.
EXCHANGE OF DIPLOMATIC AND CON-
SULAR PERSONNEL AND OTHER NA-
TIONALS
The S.S. Grripshohn with 1,451 American and
other nationals on board is expected to arrive
at New York on August 25.
' Bulletin of April 11, 1942, p. 318, and April 18, 1942,
p. 337.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BtTLLETIN
In order to expedite the disembarkation of
the passengers, the governmental agencies con-
cerned in the examination of those arriving
have decided that no persons will be allowed
on the pier until examination is completed.
A list of passengers on the Gripsholm has
been issued as Department of State press release
416, of August 18, 1942.
General
BIRTHDAY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
PHILIPPINES
[Released to the press August 19]
The text of a message from the President
to His Excellency Manuel Luis Quezon on the
occasion of his sixty-fourth birthday follows:
"On the occasion of your birthday, I send you
greetings of warm friendship. In the past year
the Philipjjine people under your leadership
have shown what heights human beings can
reach when the love of freedom inspires and
guides them.
"I know that I speak for the people of the
United States when I say that we hope for you
today a continuance of the strength, fortitude,
and vision which have enabled you to serve your
people in their greatest trial and which will
enable you in the future to play your part in
bringing liberty and abundance to your people."
Commercial Policy
MEXICAN EXPORTATION OF SILVER
TO THE UNITED STATES
The Department of State and the Office of
Price Administration announced on August 23
that on the basis of discussions which have been
conducted with the Mexican Government the
Governments of Mexico and the United States
have agreed in principle to an increase in the
price at which silver may be imported into the
United States from 35 %0 an ounce to 45{S an
ounce, f.o.b. New York or San Francisco, to be
effective August 31. Details are still to be
worked out.
An amendment to the maximum price regu-
lation (no. 198) on imports of silver bullion will
shortly be issued, changing the maximum price
at which silver bullion may be imported from
any country into the United States from 35 %^
an ounce to 450 an ounce.
Mexico is the largest exporter of silver to the
United States. Lesser amounts also come in
from Canada, Peru, and Chile.
The Near East
NOMINATION OF TURKISH FOREIGN
MINISTER
[Released to the press August 19]
On August 15 the Secretary of State ad-
dressed the following message to His Excellency
Numan Menemencioglu on the occasion of his
nomination as Minister of Foreign Affairs of
the Turkish Republic :
"I send you, Mr. Minister, my warmest con-
gratulations upon your appointment as Min-
ister for Foreign Affairs, and felicitate the
Turkish Government upon its good fortune in
having so worthy a successor to your esteemed
predecessor."
A translation of the reply which has been
received from Mr. Menemencioglu follows:
"The cordial and friendly message which
Your Excellency was kind enough to address to
me on the occasion of my nomination to the post
of Minister of Foreign Affairs has touched me
AUGUST 22, 1942
715
deeply. I beg you to accept my warmest thanks
and to be assured of my most friendly senti-
ments."
International Conferences,
Commissions, Etc.
ELEVENTH PAN AMERICAN SANITARY
CONFERENCE
The Eleventh Pan American Sanitary Con-
ference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
September 7-18, 1942. Invitations have been
issued to all the American republics to be repre-
sented. National leaders in the field of public
health and sanitation are expected to be present.
The Conference assumes unusual significance
at the present time because of the need for main-
taining the health of the civilian population in
this period of crisis and for considering health*
problems which might have a bearing on mili-
tary operations. One of the subjects which will
receive most careful study will be the mainte-
nance of an adequate supply of drugs and medi-
cal and hospital supplies. Other matters re-
lating to public health will also be reviewed,
especially cooperation in problems of hemi-
spheric scope in order to secure uniformity of
action and avoid duplication of effort.
The Department
REPRESENTATION ON FISHERIES COM-
MITTEE OF THE WAR PRODUCTION
BOARD
On August 15, 1942 the Department of State
issued a notice regarding the establishment
within the War Production Board of a Fisheries
Committee consisting of representatives of Fed-
eral agencies having functions to perform with
respect to production of fishery products, par-
ticularly as a source of food supply. Mr. Leo
D. Sturgeon, Assistant to the Assistant Secre-
tary of State, Mr. Breckinridge Long, has been
designated to serve as the Department's repre-
sentative on the Committee and as liaison ofBcer
of the Department with the Office of Fishery Co-
ordination of the Department of the Interior.
Mr. Charles I. Bevans, of the Treaty Division
of the Department of State, will serve as alter-
nate liaison officer with the Office of Fishery
Coordination.
The Foreign Service
ESTABLISHMENT OF CLAIM BOARD
On August 20, 1942 the Secretary of State
issued Departmental Order 1082, establishing a
Claim Board, the members of which include
the Assistant Secretary of State designated as
Budget Officer, the Legal Adviser, and the
Chief of the Division of Foreign Service Ad-
ministration, "in order to facilitate the prepa-
ration of claims for personal losses of officers
and employees of the Foreign Service for such
legislative action as may be desirable as soon
as possible after such claims arise".
Publications
Depabtment of State
Index to the Department of State Bulletin, vol. VI, nos.
132-157, January 3 - June 27, 1942. Publication 1781.
27 pp.
716
Treaty Information
STRATEGIC MATERIALS
Rubber Agreement With British Honduras
An announcement concerning the signing of
a rubber agreement with British Honduras ap-
pears in this Bulletin under the heading "The
War".
ARMED FORCES
Agreement With Canada Regarding Transfer of
United States Citizens From Canadian to
United States Armed Forces
The texts of notes exchanged between the Sec-
retary of State and Canadian officials with re-
gard to action taken by the Joint Canadian-
American Military Board under the provisions
of the agreement with Canada regarding the
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transfer of United States citizens from Cana-
dian to United States armed forces, signed
March 18 and 20, 1942 (Executive Agreement
Series 245), appear in this Bulletin under the
heading "The War".
Legislation
Censorship Between Territories and the United States.
n. Kept. 2397, 77th Cong., on H. R. 7151. 3 pp.
Refugee and Foreign War Relief Programs : Message
From the President of the United States Transmitting
Report to Congress on the Refugee and Foreign War
Relief Programs for the Period Beginning July 1,
1&40, and Ending April 30, 1942. H. Doc. 807, 77th
Cong, viii, 61 pp.
An Act To facilitate the disposition of prizes captured
by the United States during the present war, and for
other purposes. Approved August 18, 1942. [H. R
7211.] Public Law 704, 77th Cong. 2 pp.
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C
ontents
The War Pag*
Radio Address by the Former American Ambassador
to Japan 719
Declaration of War by Brazil on Germany and Italy . 723
Australasia
Visit to Washington of the New Zealand Prime Min-
ister 723
American Republics
Rubber Agreement With El Salvador 723
National Anniversary of Uruguay 723
International Conferences, Commissions, Etc.
Eleventh Pan American Sanitary Conference .... 724
Treaty Information
Labor: Convention Concerning Statistics of Wages
and Hours of Work in the Principal Mining and
Manufacturing Industries, Including Building and
Construction, and in Agriculture 724
Commerce : Inter- American Coffee Agreement .... 724
Strategic Materials:
Agreement With Brazil 725
Rubber Agreement With El Salvador . 725
The Department
Appointments 725
Publications 725
U. S. SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS
SEP 14 1942
The War
RADIO ADDRESS BY THE FORMER AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN '
First of all, I should like to say how deeply
we have been moved, my associates and myself,
who have just returned on the exchange ship
Gripskolm, by the many greetings of friends
and the great volume of messages of welcome
which have come to us from all over the coun-
try. The welcome given us has warmed our
hearts, and it is one that we can never forget;
nor can we ever forget the really inexpressible
joy of coming home after the difficult months
and moments through which we have passed in
Ja2:)an and Japanese-occupied territories. It
may be impossible to answer all those messages
individually. Please let me express now to all
who hear me our most grateful thanks for them.
Never before has my native land looked to me
so beautiful. Never before has a homecoming
meant so much. I think you will realize a little
of what it meant to us when I tell you of those
last seven days at anchor off Yokohama before
our evacuation vessel finally sailed from Japa-
nese waters. We were awaiting the completion
of the negotiations for our exchange, not know-
ing whether those negotiations would be suc-
cessful and whether, if they were unsuccessful,
we might not all be returned to our imprison-
ment in Japan. Among us were many Ameri-
cans— missionaries, teachers, newspaper corre-
spondents, businessmen — who had spent the
preceding six months in solitary confinement in
small, bitterly cold prison cells, inadequately
clothed and inadequately fed and at times sub-
jected to the most cruel and barbaric tortures.
I will not go into the nature of those tortures.
' The Honorable Joseph C. Grew. Released to the
press and broadcast over the facilities of the Columbia
Broadcasting Systerti, Washington, August 30, 1942.
which were many, except to mention an incident
on the Gripsholm when three elderly Americans,
one of them over 70 years old, gave me a demon-
stration of the water-cure which had repeatedly
been inflicted uf)on them. We went up to the
bow of the ship early in the morning where a
friend posed as the subject of the torture. He
was tied up with his knees drawn up to his chin,
his neck being attached to his knees and his
hands securely bound behind him so that the
cords in the actual torture had penetrated deep
under the skin. He was then rolled over with
his face up and water was poured into his nose
and mouth. It was a realistic performance, but
only from the oral description of those men
could I visualize what the actual torture must
have been. Six large buckets of water were used
by the Japanese police, so that the subject
lost consciousness and then was brought back
to consciousness merely to have the same thing
repeated. One of those elderly missionaries
was given the water-cure six separate times
in order to make him divulge information
which he was supposed to have acquired as an
alleged spy. Nearly all the American mission-
aries, teachers, newspaper correspondents, and
businessmen were regarded as potential spies.
The stupidity of those Japanese police was only
surpassed by their utter cruelty. That same
American told me that once while he was lying
tied on the floor a Japanese had ground his
boot-sole into his face and then had brutally
kicked him, smashing a rib. When he was
finally untied, he could barely stand and he said
he feared that a rib had been broken. One of
the Japanese police asked where the broken rib
was and began to feel liis body. As the Japa-
719
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nese came to the broken bone he said, "Is that
the place?" and when the man answered "Yes",
the policeman hauled off with his fist and hit
that broken rib as hard as he could. In another
case, a well-known American has been seriously
maimed as a result of the gangrene which was
caused by the ill-treatment that he received in
his prison cell. I had known him in years gone
by and seldom have I had so great a shock as
when I saw him on the ship, a mere shadow of
his former self. There were many, many other
cases.
I had heard indirectly of the horrible atroci-
ties perpetrated in the rape of Nanking and of
the fearful things done in Hong Kong when
soldiers who had been taken as prisoners of war
were bayoneted to death. But on shipboard we
had direct evidence, for the dying shrieks of
those soldiers were heard by a woman, a fellow
passenger of ours, who herself told me the ter-
rible story. This was no second-hand evidence
but the reports of reliable first-hand witnesses
and, in the case of the torture, the first-hand
evidence of those who had suffered the tortures
themselves.
Do you wonder that during those seven days
of waiting in the harbor of Yokohama several
of those people told me that if the negotiations
for our exchange failed they would commit sui-
cide rather than return to their imprisonment in
Japan ?
And then came one of the greatest of all mo-
ments. I awoke at 1 a.m. on June 25 sensing that
something was happening. I looked out of the
porthole and saw a piece of wood slowly moving
past in the water. Another piece of wood moved
faster. We were at last under way, slowly ac-
celerating until the ship was finally speeding at
full steam, away from Yokohama, away from
Japan, pointing homeward. Ah, what a mo-
ment that was, even though we had 18,000 miles
to cover and 70 days in all before we should pass
the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor and
repeat to ourselves, with tears pouring down
many a face,
Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land?
I shall have something to say tonight about
the Japanese military machine which brought
on this war and against which we are fighting
today. But before turning to that subject there
is something else which I cannot leave unsaid.
I have lived for 10 years in Japan. I have had
many friends in Japan, some of whom I ad-
mired, respected, and loved. They are not the
people who brought on this war. As patriots
they will fight for their Emperor and country,
to the last ditch if necessary, but they did not
want this war and it was not they who began it.
Even during our imprisonment in Tokyo many
of those friends used to contrive to send us
gifts in spite of the usual obstruction of the
Ijolice who wished to cut us off completely from
the outside world. They were not the usual
gifts of flowers but gifts of food, sometimes a
piece of meat, which was the most precious gift
they could confer because they themselves could
seldom get meat. For 10 years I have broken
bread in their houses and they in mine. They
were personally loyal to me to the end.
But there is the other side to the picture, the
ugly side of cruelty, brutality, and utter besti-
ality, the ruthlessness and rapaciousness of the
Japanese military machine which brought on
this war. That Japanese military machine and
military caste and military system must be ut-
terly crushed, their credit and predominance
must be utterly broken, for the future safety
and welfare of the United States and of the
United Nations and for the future safety and
welfare of civilization and humanity. Let us
put it in a nutshell : there is not sufficient room
in the area of the Pacific Ocean for a peaceful
America, for any of the peace-loving United
Nations, and a swashbuckling Japan.
I shall come back to that subject, but first it
may interest you to know something about the
last hours in Tokyo preceding the dastardly
attack on Pearl Harbor. That story is of im-
portant interest.
Late in the evening of December 7 I received
a telegram from our Secretary of State, Mr.
Hull, containing a message from the President
which I was to communicate to the Emperor at
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721
the earliest possible moment. I immediately
asked for an appointment with the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, Mr. Togo, around midnight,
and drove at once to the Minister's official resi-
dence and requested an audience with the Em-
peror in order to present the President's mes-
sage. Mr. Togo said that he would present my
request to the Throne, and I left him at about
12:30 a.m. This must have been only a few
hours — Japan time — prior to the attack on
Pearl Hai-bor.
At 7 a.m. on the morning of December 8 1 was
awakened by a telephone call from the Foreign
Minister's secretary, who asked me to come to
the Minister's residence as soon as possible. He
said that he had been trying to telephone to me
ever since 5 a.m. but had been unable to get con-
nection. I hurriedly dressed and arrived at the
official residence at about 7 : 30. Mr. Togo en-
tered the room grim and formal and handed to
me the reply to the President's message to the
Emperor, whom I was told he had seen at about
3 a.m., presumably just after the news of the at-
tack on Pearl Harbor. At the same time he
handed me a long memorandum ending with the
statement: "The Japanese Government regi'ets
to have to notify hereby the American Govern-
ment that in view of the attitude of the Ameri-
can Government it cannot but consider that it is
impossible to reach an agreement through fur-
ther negotiations."
I asked the Minister if he bad presented to
the Emperor my request for an audience. The
Minister merely replied that he had no intention
of standing between myself and the Throne.
He then made a little speech thanking me for
my efforts to preserve peace and as usual came
downstairs to see me off at the door. He said
nothing whatever about the outbreak of war be-
tween our countries and I returned to the Em-
bassy in entire ignorance that developments
more serious than the breaking off of the conver-
sations had occurred. It was not until at least
an hour or more later that a press bulletin was
released announcing the attack on Hawaii and
the outbreak of war between Japan and the
United States and Great Britain. When the
bulletin was handed to me I could liardly believe
that the news was true. However, it was soon
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confirmed from other sources, and later in the
morning an official of the Foreign Office brought
to my secretary the official note declaring war.
Almost immediately afterward the Embassy's
gates were closed and locked by the police, and
from that moment we were regarded and treated
as prisoners. A gi'oup of Japanese radio experts
then immediately came and went through all
our houses with a fine-toothed comb, taking
away all short-wave radio sets so that thereafter
we should have no contact with the outside
world save through the Japanese newspapers
which were regularly delivered to us.
I had long known of Japan's preparations for
war and I kept my Government currently ad-
vised of the information which came to my
knowledge on that subject.
And now, before closing, I should like to tell
you something about the Japanese military ma-
chine against which we are fighting today.
That machine has been trained and perfected
through many years, for it has always had in
view, even before the invasion of Manchuria in
1931, the prospect of eventually sweeping not
only to the north against Russia but to the west
and south in order to control what the Japanese
have latterly termed "The Co-Prosperity Sphere
of Greater East Asia including the South
Seas". It need hardly be said that the phrase
"Co-Prosperity Sphere" denoted in fact the in-
tention to exert Japanese control, politically,
economically — absolutely — over all those far-
flung territories.
In 1931 came their invasion of Manchuria.
In 1937 came their invasion of China south of
the wall, and while their Army eventually
floundered in China, due to the magnificent
fighting spirit of Chiang Kai-shek, his coura-
geous armies, and his determined people, never-
theless the warfare which then ensued proved
a practical training for the Japanese soldiers
and sailors, who tirelessly developed and per-
fected the tactics which they subsequently used
in their landings and conquests to the south.
The idea should not for a moment be enter-
tained that the failure of the Japanese forces in
China has discouraged the Japanese people. It
has instead served to steel them for still greater
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sacrifices and to prepare them better for the war
to the death upon which they have finally em-
barked. As the realization came home to them
of the need for greater and greater efforts, they
accepted the inevitable war-footing reorganiza-
tion of the country's life with characteristic
calmness and determination.
Probably no other factor has contributed
more heavily to the preliminary victories
achieved by the Japanese in this war than the
offensive spirit which permeates all the armed
forces of the Empire. This spirit, recognized
by competent military men as the most vital
intangible factor in achieving victory, has been
nourished and perpetuated since the foundation
of the modern Japanese Army. The Japanese
High Command has counted implicitly upon the
advantages this would give them over less ag-
gressive enemies. They have put great store in
what they consider to be the white man's flabbi-
ness. They look upon us Americans as consti-
tutional weaklings, demanding our daily com-
forts and unwilling to make the sacrifices
demanded for victory in a war against a mili-
tary machine which has prepared and trained
itself in Spartan simplicity and the hardness
and toughness demanded by war. They attach
gi-eat importance to the former disunity in the
United States over the war issue, and they still
count on an appreciable interval before an
aroused nation can find itself and develop a
fighting spirit of its own. By that time, they
feel, Japan will be in complete control of ail
East Asia. When they struck they made nn
provision for failure; they left no road open
for retreat. They struck with all the force and
power at their command. And they will con-
tinue to fight in the same manner until they are
utterly crushed.
We shall crush that machine and caste and
system in due course, but if we Americans think
that, collectively and individually, we can con-
tinue to lead our normal lives, leaving the spirit
of self-sacrifice to our soldiers and sailors, let-
ting the intensification of our production pro-
gi-am take care of itself, we shall unquestion-
ably risk the danger of a stalemate in this wax^
of ours with Japan. I say this in the light of
my 10 years' experience in Japan, my knowledge
of the power of the Japanese Army and Navy
and of the harcbiess and fighting spirit of the
Japanese. I feel it my bounden duty to say
this to my fellow countrymen. I know my own
country even better than I know Japan, and I
have not the slightest shadow of doubt of our
eventual victory. But I do not wish to see tha
period of our blood, sweat, and tears indefi-
nitely and umiecessarily prolonged. That pe-
riod will be prolonged only if our people fail to
realize the truth of what I have just said : that
we are up against a powerful fighting machine,
a people whose morale cannot and will not be
broken even by successive defeats, who wiU cer-
tainly not be broken by economic hardships, 'a
people who individually and collectively will
gladly sacrifice their lives for their Emperor
and their nation, and who can be brought to
earth only by physical defeat, by being ejected
physically from the areas which they have tem-
porarily conquered or by a progressive attrition
of their naval power and merchant marine
which will finally result in cutting off their
homeland from all connection with and access
to those outlying areas — by complete defeat in
battle.
I need say no more. I have told you the truth
as I see it from long experience and observation.
I have come home with my associates in the Far
East to join our war effort with yours and I
realize, perhaps better than anyone else, that
nothing less than the exertion of our maximum
capacities, individually and collectively, in a war
of offense will bring our beloved country safely
through these deep waters to the longed-for
haven of a victorious peace.
We are fighting this war for the preservation
of righteousness, law, and order, but above all
for the preservation of the freedoms wliich have
been conferred upon us by the glorious heritage
of our American citizenship and for these same
freedoms in other countries of the United Na-
tions; and while we are fighting against the
forces of evil, lawlessness, and disorder in the
world, we are primarily fighting to prevent the
enslavement which actually threatens to be im-
posed upon us if we fail. I am convinced that
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723
this is not an overstatement. Surely ours is a
cause worth sacrificing for and living for and
dying for if necessary. "Though love repine
and reason chafe, there came a voice without
reply ; 'tis man's perdition to be safe, when for
the truth he ought to die."
DECLARATION OF WAR BY BRAZIL
ON GERMANY AND ITALY
[Beleased to the press August 26]
The translation of a telegram received by the
Secretary of State from His Excellency Oswaldo
Aranha, Minister of Foreign Relations of Bra-
zil, follows :
"August 25, 1942.
"I thank Your Excellency for your telegram
and for your generous statements.^ Once more
our countries find themselves united as, after all,
they invariably [and] always were, in the de-
fense of the noble ideals which constitute the
common moral heritage of the peoples of this
Hemisphere. Once more our peoples gather
their strength, their unbreakable faith in the im-
mortal principles of right and of justice for the
defense of the great American family and of
human dignity itself. The people and the au-
thorities of Brazil have serene confidence in the
cause which together we defend and face this
critical hour of humanity with manly courage
and inflexible determination. I am deeply
grateful to Your Excellency for the noble senti-
ments which you were kind enough to express to
me. I renew to Your Excellency the assurances
of my deepest respect and of my great personal
esteem.
Oswaldo Aranha"
Australasia
VISIT TO WASHINGTON OF THE NEW
ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER
[Released to the press August 25]
The Right Honorable Peter Eraser, Prune
Minister of New Zealand, will arrive at the
' Bulletin of August 22, 1942, p. 711.
National Airport, Washington, D.C., on Au-
gust 26 for a brief visit in the United States.
He will be a guest of tlie President at the White
House for the night, following which he will go
to the Blair House, where he will reside for the
remainder of his stay in Washington.
The Prime Minister will be met upon arrival
by the Secretary of State, the Honorable Walter
Nash, Minister of New Zealand, and other offi-
cials of the Government.
The Honorable Patrick J. Hurley, American
Minister to New Zealand, is accompanying the
Prime Minister.
American Republics
RUBBER AGREEMENT WITH
EL SALVADOR
[Released to the press August 24]
The signing of a rubber agreement with the
Republic of El Salvador was annomiced on Au-
gust 24 by the Department of State, the Rubber
Reserve Company, and the Board of Economic
Warfare.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Rubber
Reserve Company will purchase, until December
31, 1946, all rubber produced in El Salvador
which is not required for essential domestic
needs.
NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY OF URUGUAY
[Released to the press August 25]
The text of a telegram from the President of
the United States to His Excellency General
Alfredo Baldomir, President of the Oriental Re-
public of Uruguay, on the occasion of the anni-
versary of the declaration of the independence
of Uruguay, follows :
"The White House, August 26, 19 J^.
"On this aimiversary of the declaration of the
independence of Uruguay, I am afforded a wel-
come opportunity not only of expressing to Your
Excellency my cordial best wishes for the future
progress and prosperity of your admirable coun-
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try, but at the same time of thanking Your Ex-
cellency and the Government and people of
Uruguay for the wholehearted cooperation and
support which they have extended to the cause to
the success of which the free nations of the world
are pledged. During the past year particularly
the friendship between Uruguay and the United
States, based as it is upon similar traditions and
ideals, has been greatly strengthened by the fact
that our two peoples have achieved a common
understanding of the challenge of those who
would enslave the world and have shown a com-
mon determination to meet that challenge.
"Please accept [etc.]
Franklin D Eoosevblt"
International Conferences,
Commissions, Etc.
ELEVENTH PAN AMERICAN SANITARY
CONFERENCE
I Released to the press August 26] " ' 'JrK
This Government has accepted the invitation
of the Brazilian Government to be represented
oflBcially at the Eleventh Pan American Sani-
taiy Conference, which will be held at Rio de
Janeiro from September 7 to September 18, 1942.
With the approval of the President, the follow-
ing Delegation will represent the United States
of America at the Conference :
Surgeon General Thomas Parian. Public Health Service,
chairma/ti
Dr. E, h. Bishop, Director of Health, Tennessee Valley
Authority
Surgeon G. L. Dunahoo, Public Health Service, Chief
of the Quarantine Office at the Port of Miami,
Miami, Fla.
Dr. George C. Dunham, Director, Health and Sanitation
Division, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-Ameri-
can Affairs; Brig. Gen., Medical Corps, United
States Army
Surgeon W. H. Sebrell, Jr., Public Health Service
Capt. Charles S. Stephenson, Medical Corps, U.S.N.,
Bureau of Medicine and Surgfry, United States
Navy
Ur. Abel Wolman, School of Public Health, Johos Hop-
kins University, Baltimore, Md.
Philip P. Williams, Third Secretary, American Em-
bassy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; secretary
The periodic Pan American Sanitary Con-
ferences have a supervisory responsibility over
the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, which is the
central coordinating agency for public health in
the Western Hemisphere. The forthcoming
Conference will consider sanitation and health
problems affecting the 21 American republics in
the light of war conditions.
Treaty Information
LABOR
Conventiou Concerning Statistics of Wages and
Hours of Work in the Principal Mining and
Manufacturing Industries, Including Building
and Construction, and in Agriculture
Meodco
According to a circular letter from the League
of Xations dated July 24, 1942 the ratifica-
tion by Mexico of the Convention Concerning
Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work in the
Principal Mining and Manufacturing Indus-
tries, Including Building and Construction, and
in Agriculture, adopted on June 20, 1938 by the
International Labor Conference at its twenty-
fourth session, was registered with the Secre-
tariat on July 16, 1942.
The convention has been ratified by the fol-
lowing countries: Australia, Denmark, Egypt,
Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Sweden, Switzerland, and Union of South
Africa.
COMMERCE
Inter-American Coffee Agreement
An announcement regarding the termination
of Executive Order 8863, which allocated for the
present quota-year the quota provided by article
VII of the Inter- American Coffee Agreement
(signed at Washington November 28, 1940 and
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725
printed as Treaty Series 970) for countries not
signatories of the agreement, and the decision
not to allocate the non-signatory quota for the
year beginning October 1, 1942, appeared in the
Bulletin for July 18, 1942 on page 635.
The Bureau of Customs has announced that
beginning September 1, 1942 provisions will be
made at customs ports of entry to permit im-
porters to present entries for consumption cover-
ing coffee produced in countries not signatories
of the agreement.
No order will be issued allocating the non-
signatory quota for the year beginning October
1, 1942. The unexhausted portion of the quota
as of August 15, 1942 was said to be approxi-
mately 15,000,000 pounds.
STRATEGIC MATERIALS
Agreement With Brazil
According to an announcement from the
Board of Economic Warfare an agreement has
been entered into with Brazil for the purchase
by the Commodity Credit Corporation of the
entire exportable surplus of Brazilian babassu
and castor oil. The oil stocks will replace tung
and cocoanut oil formerly imported from the
southwest Pacific. The agreement provides that
if shipping is not available within 30 days
after the stocks are offered for sale the Corpo-
ration will pay the agreed prices and store the
oil in warehouses.
Rubber Agreement With El Salvador
An announcement concerning the signing of
a rubber agreement with the Republic of El
Salvador appears in this Bulletin under the
heading "American Republics".
The Department
APPOINTMENTS
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Assistant and Executive Secretary to the Com-
mittee for Reciprocity Information, effective
August 27, 1942 (Departmental Order 1084).
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ontents
The War
Address by tlie President to the International Student
Assembly 729
Third Anniversary of the German Attack on Poland :
Message From the President of the United States
to the President of Poland 732
Radio Address by Assistant Secretary Berle . . . 733
Agreements for Reciprocal Lend-Lease Aid to the
United States and Its Armed Forces 734
United States Technical Mission to Brazil 740
Relief for American Prisoners of War Held by Japan . 741
Radio Address by the Former American Ambassador
to Japan 742
Proclaimed List : Supplement 1 to Revision III . . . 742
International Confeeences, Commissions, Etc.
Inter-American Congress on Social Plamiing .... 743
The Department
The Division of Departmental Personnel 743
Appointment of officers 744
Treaty Information
Mutual Guaranties : Agreement With the United King-
dom, Australia, New Zealand, and the French
National Committee 744
Restriction of War: Convention Relating to the Treat-
ment of Prisoners of War 745
Publications 745
Legislation '. 745
U. 8. SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS
SEP 19 1S42
The War
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT
ASSEMBLY '
[Released to the press by the White House September 3]
It may interest the members of this Assembly
of tlie International Student Service that dur-
ing the past week the Axis radio has given un-
usual comment to your sessions and to the speech
which you are hearing at this moment.
Our listening stations have picked up an in-
creasing volume of Axis broadcasts, including
controlled stations in France, Hungary, the
Netlierlands, and elsewhere, referring to this
meeting of the younger generation from all the
United Nations in terms of growing hate and,
of course, complete falsehood. Our listening
stations report that they expect that at this mo-
ment the air in all Axis-dominated nations will
be thoroughly jammed — blacked out — in order
that no sound of what I am saying, either in
English or in translation, will be heard by any
restless young people who are under Hitler's
heel.
The Nazi radio in Paris, for example, tells the
youth of France that Roosevelt was solely re-
sponsible for the defeat of France, that Roose-
velt is not qualified to address a message to the
youth of the world because America is a nation
that has done nothing for youth.
Berlin reports that four French youth organi-
zations have protested in advance against this
speech, since Roosevelt must be blamed for the
death of more than 100,000 young Frenchmen.
Incidentally, it would be interesting to know
how many real Frenchmen there are in these,
so-called French youth organizations.
'Broadcast on September 3 in connection with the
International Student Assembly, in session at Washing-
ton, D. C, September 2-5, 1942.
A radio in Tokyo says that I am admitting
to you at this moment that my people are de-
cadent— weaklings — playboys — spoiled by jazz
music and Hollywood pictures. Of course, this
broadcast did not originate from any of the
Japanese who bumped into our playboys in the
Southwest Pacific.
The reason for this hysterically defensive at-
titude toward this gathering is not hard to find.
For many years they have made their hypocrit-
ical appeal to youth ; they have tried, with all
their blatant publicity, to represent themselves
as the champions of youth.
But now the world knows that the Nazis, the
Fascists, and the militarists of Japan have noth-
ing to offer to youth except death.
On the other hand, the cause of the United
Nations is the cause of youth itself. It is the
hope of the new generation and the generations
that are to come — hope for a new life that can
be lived in freedom and justice and decency.
This fact is becoming clearer every day to
the young people of Europe, where the Nazis
are trying to create youth organizations built
on the Nazi pattern. It is not a pattern devised
by youth for youth. It is a pattern devised by
Hitler and imposed upon youth by a form of
mental forcible feeding— a diet of false facts,
distortions, and prohibitions — all backed up by
the guns of the Gestapo.
If you have any doubt as to what the decent
youth of Europe think about the false promises
the Axis masters make to the young people of
the world, look to the brave young men of
France and all the occupied countries who pre-
fer to face the firing squads rather than a life-
time of slavery and degradation under Hitler.
729
730
In such unfortunate countries as Finland,
Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Italy, whose
Governments have found it necessary to submit
to Hitler and do his bidding, the Quislings have
organized youth movements too — but these are
only movements of youth by the tens of thou-
sands to the slaughter of the Eastern front,
where the Nazis need cannon-fodder in their
desperate attempts to shatter the stalwart Rus-
sian Army.
In China heroic youth has stood steadfast for
more than five years against all of Japan's at-
tempts to seduce and disarm them with such
transparent lies as the promise of "Asia for the
Asiatics". For the Chinese know that this only
means "all of creation enslaved by the Japa-
nese".
We exult in the thought that it is the young,
free men and women of the United Nations and
not the wound-up robots of the slave states who
will mold the shape of the new world.
The delegates to this International Student
Assembly represent the 29 United Nations.
They also represent, in spirit at least, the
younger generation of many other nations who,
though they are not now actively at war on our
side, are with us heart and soul in aspiration for
a secure and peaceful world.
Before the first World War very few people
in any country believed that youth had the
right to speak for itself as a group or to partici-
pate in councils of state.
We have learned much since then. We know
that wisdom does not come necessarily with
years, that old men may be foolish and young
men may be wise. But in every war it is the
younger generation which bears the burden of
combat and inlierits all the ills that war leaves
in its wake.
In the economic crises that followed the false
prosperity after the first World War, many
young men and women suffered even more than
did their elders. For they were denied the
primary opportunities for education, for train-
ing, for work, or even for food enough to build
up healthy bodies. As a result, they were
tempted to seek some simple remedy not only
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for their own individual problems but for all
the problems that beset the world. Some
listened to alien, siren voices which offered glib
answers to all the questions. "Democracy is
dead", said these voices. "Follow us, and we
will teach you efficiency. We will lead you to
world conquest. We will give you power over
inferior races. And all that we ask you to give
in return is your freedom."
Other young people in the democracies
listened to gospels of despair. They took
refuge in cynicism and bitterness.
However, the day finally came when all
theory had to give way to fact — the terrible,
tangible fact of dive bombers, panzer divisions,
the actual threat to the security of every home
and every family in every free country in the
world. And when that fact became clear to
our youth they answered the call to arms— many
millions of them; and today they are deter-
mined to fight until the forces of aggression
have been utterly destroyed.
What I am saying here in Washington is
being heard by several million American
soldiers, sailors, and marines, not only
within the continental limits of the United
States but in far-distant points: in Central
and South America, in the islands of the At-
lantic, in Britain and Ireland, on the coasts of
Africa, in Egypt, in Iraq and Iran, in Russia, in
India, in China, in Australia, in New Zealand,
in many islands of the Pacific, and on all the
seas of the world. There — in all those places —
are our fighting men.
And to them I should like to deliver a special
message, from their Commander in Chief and
from the very hearts of their countrymen :
You young Americans today are conducting
yourselves in a manner that is worthy of the
highest, proudest traditions of our Nation.
No pilgrims who landed on the uncharted
New England coast, no pioneers who forced
their way through the trackless wilderness,
showed greater fortitude, greater determina-
tion than you are showing now.
Neither your own fathers, in 1918, nor your
fathers' fathers, in 1863 or 1776, fought with
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731
greater gallantry or more selfless devotion to
duty and country than you are now displaying
on battlefields far from home.
And what is more, you know why you are
fighting. You know that the road which has
led you to the Solomon Islands or to the Red
Sea or to the coast of France is in fact an ex-
tension of Main Street, and that when you fight,
anywhere along that road, you are fighting in
the defense of your own homes, your own free
schools, your own churches, your own ideals.
We here at home are supremely conscious of
our obligations to you, now and in the future.
We will not let you down.
We know that in the minds of many of you
are thoughts of interrupted education, inter-
rupted careers, delayed opportunities for getting
a job. The solution of such problems cannot
be left, as it was last time, to mere chance. This
Government has accepted the responsibility for
seeing to it that, wherever possible, work has
been provided for those who were willing and
able but who could not find work. That re-
sponsibility will continue after the war. And
when you come home we do not propose to in-
volve you, as last time, in a domestic economic
mess of our own making.
You are doing first things first — fighting to
win this war. For you know that should this
war be lost all our plans for the peace to follow
would be meaningless.
Victory is essential ; but victory is not enough
for you — or for us. We must be sure that when
you have won victory you will not have to teU
your children that you fought in vain — that you
were betrayed. We must be sure that in your
homes there will not be want, that in your
schools only the living truth will be taught, that
in your churches there may be preached without
fear a faith in which men may deeply believe.
The better world for which you fight — and for
which some of you give your lives — will not
come merely because we shall have won the war.
It will not come merely because we wish very
hard that it would come. It will be made pos-
sible only by bold vision, intelligent planning,
and hard work. It caimot be brought about
overnight but only by years of effort and perse-
verance and unfaltering faith.
You young soldiers and sailors, farmers and
factory workers, artists and scholars, who are
fighting our way to victory now, all of you wiU
have to take your part in shaping that world.
You will earn it by what you do now ; but you
will not attain it if you leave the job for others
to do alone. When you lay aside your gun at
the end of the war, you cannot at the same time
lay aside your duty to the future.
What I have said to our American soldiers
and sailors applies to all the young men and
women of the United Nations who are facing our
common enemies. There is a complete unanim-
ity of spirit among all the youth of all kinds
and kindreds who fight to preserve or to regain
their freedom.
In Norway and Holland, Belgium and France,
Czechoslovakia and Poland, Serbia and Greece
there is a fighting spirit that defies the harsh
oppression, the barbarous cruelty and terrorism
of the Nazis. Although disarmed, the imcon-
querable people still strike at their oppressors.
Although forbidden to know the truth, they lis-
ten at the risk of their lives to radio broadcasts
from afar; and, by word of mouth and by secret
newspaper passed from one patriot to another,
they still spread the truth. When the time
comes for these peoples to rise. Hitler's "new
order" will be destroyed by the hands of its own
victims.
Today the embattled youth of Russia and
China are realizing a new individual dignity,
casting off the last links of the ancient chains of
imperial despotism which had bound them so
long.
This is a development of historic importance.
It means that the old term "Western Civiliza-
tion" no longer applies. World events and the
common needs of all humanity are joining the
culture of Asia with the culture of Europe and
of the Americas to form for the first time a real
world civilization.
In the concept of the Four Freedoms, in the
basic principles of the Atlantic Charter, we
732
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BTJLLETEN
have set for ourselves high goals, unlimited
objectives.
These concepts and these principles are de-
signed to form a world in which men, women,
and children can live in freedom and in equity
and, above all, without fear of the horrors of
war. For no soldiers or sailors in any of our
forces today would so willingly endure the rig-
ors of battle if they thought that in another 20
years their own sons would be fighting still an-
other war on distant deserts or seas or in far-
away jungles or skies.
We have profited by our past mistakes. This
time we shall know how to make full use of
victory. This time the achievements of our
fighting forces will not be thrown away by polit-
ical cynicism and timidity and incompetence.
There is still a handful of men and women in
the United States and elsewhere who mock and
sneer at the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic
Charter. They are few in number, but some of
them have the financial power to give our ene-
mies the false impression that they have a large
following among our citizenry. They play
petty politics in a world crisis. They fiddle
with many sour notes while civilization burns.
These puny prophets decry our determination to
implement our high concepts and sound princi-
ples. And the words of these little men of little
faith are quoted with gleeful approval by the
press and radio of our enemies.
We are deeply aware that we cannot achieve
our goals easily. We cannot attain the fullness
of all our ideals overnight. We know that this
is to be a long and hard and bitter fight — and
that there will still be an enormous job for us to
do long after the last German, Japanese, and
Italian bombing planes have been shot to earth.
But we do believe that with divine guidance
we can make — in this dark world of today and
in the new post-war world — a steady progress
toward the highest goals that men have ever
imagined.
We of the United Nations have the technical
means, the physical resources, and, most of all,
the adventurous courage and the vision and the
will that are needed to build and sustain the
kind of world order which alone can justify the
tremendous sacrifices now being made by our
youth.
But we must keep at it ; we must never relax,
never falter, never fear ; and we must keep at it
together.
We must maintain the offensive against evil in
all its forms. We must work and we must fight
to insure that our children shall have and shall
enjoy in peace their inalienable rights to free-
dom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom
from want, freedom from fear.
Only on those bold terms can this total war
result in total victory.
THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE GERJMAN ATTACK ON POLAND
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE PRESIDENT OF POLAND
[Released to the press August 31]
The American Ambassador to the Polish
Government in London has been instructed to
deliver the following message from the Presi-
dent of the United States to the President of
Poland on August 31, 1942, the anniversary of
the German attack on Poland :
"On this the Third Anniversary of the unpro-
voked and wanton attack by the Nazi hordes on
your country I express to you on behalf of the
American people and myself the deep admira-
tion felt by freedom-loving peoples for the
courage, fortitude and indomitable spirit shown
by your countrymen during this trying period.
"The forces of ruthless aggression unleashed
by Hitler three years ago are now opposed by
the overwhelming might of all the United Na-
tions. Their combined efforts in the common
cause to which Poland is making such contribu-
tions assui'e victory and the liberation of all op-
pressed peoples under a just and enduring
peace."
SEPTEMBER 5, 1942
733
RADIO ADDRESS BY ASSISTANT SECRETARY BERLE '
[Released to the press September 2]
Before dawn on the first of September 1939 the
German divisions crossed the Polish frontier.
At that moment the war fires which had been
kindled by the Axis throughout the world burst
into flame.
The attack was well prepared. Lies about Po-
land, and particularly about Polish treatment
of Germans, had been prepared in all forms and
were being systematically circulated not only in
Europe but in North and South America as well.
The German General Staff had advised Hitler
that the Polish campaign would be only "a
bloody promenade". Arrangements were made
for a campaign of killing and torture, and these
were to be put into pictures so that the pictures,
circulated also in North and South America,
might strike fear into the hearts of any people
which thought of resisting the German arms.
Three years ago, this day, the plan was put into
execution.
It is true that Hitler had given his solemn
pledge that the Polish frontier should be invio-
late. It is true he had promised to Poland ever-
lasting friendship. It is true that he had as-
sured the world that he had no intention or de-
sign to make war or to seize territory. He had
made these false pledges and these promises at
the very moment that his agents were planning
to seize and to enslave the entire Polish people.
More than that : the Nazis included and now
include a list of peoples throughout the world
who were to be slaves or servants of Nazi mas-
ters. In that list were not only European peo-
ples but peoples of North and South America.
To the free citizens of free countries, European
and American, the Nazi rule assigned particular
badges of slavery. For instance, South Ameri-
cans were supposed to be fit for field labor and
for house servants. This was, and still is, a part
of the Nazi doctrine and the Nazi plan. Poland
was the first great example.
But this plan failed to reckon with one great
' Broadcast in Spanish over the short-wave facilities
of the National Broadcasting Company September 1,
1942.
human fact. A nation is undefeated as long as
the soul of its people survives.
At the very moment when the German legions
were reaping a bloody harvest on the Polish
plain, the mills of the gods began to grind.
They ground courage in a people faced with
impossible odds.
They ground hope out of despair. They
ground out an iron resolve that these murder-
ing oppressors should find no inch of Polish soil
on which they could be safe.
The mills of the gods ground out the seed of
a world-wide resistance and the resentment of
a world-wide horror. Fii'st England, then
other nations, took up arms. They ground the
slow accumulation of a terrible force which has
grown in three j'ears to a great army of nations.
They have ground out a unity among free peo-
ples, as each realizes that the freedom of one is
essential to the safety of all.
They have begun to grind the great plan of
restitution. They have begun to make a design
for a stronger world, in which there shall be
freedom from fear and freedom from want.
On the Polish plain there is no defeat. It is
sown with armed men who wait their time.
It is sown with German dead and wounded
from the Eussian campaign. The work of
justice is already begun.
This is not the first time in history that
nations have attempted to bring about the
death of Poland. Indomitable, she has risen
again, stronger than before. From her example
we who are also engaged in that common strug-
gle must draw an iron determination to wif)e
tyranny out of the earth.
Our ancestors in the New World challenged
the mightiest empires and made themselves
free. To deserve that freedom, as to make
ourselves safe, we must now make freedom
universal.
An emblem of our certain victory must be the
restitution of freedom to the deathless Poland —
the Poland of history, the Poland of arts, the
Poland of Chopin's music, tlie Poland of un-
conquerable soul.
734 DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
AGREEMENTS FOR RECIPROCAL LEND-LEASE AID TO THE UNITED STATES
AND ITS ARMED FORCES
IKeleased to the press September 3)
Agreements specifying the principles and
procedures applicable to the provision of aid to
the United States and its armed forces by the
Governments of the United Kingdom, Aus-
tralia, and New Zealand were concluded on
September 3 by exchanges of notes between the
Secretary of State and the British Ambassador,
Lord Halifax; the Australian Minister, Sir
Owen Dixon; and the New Zealand Minister,
Mr. Walter Nash. A similar agreement con-
cerning the provision of aid by Fighting France
was concluded in London on September 3 by an
exchange of notes between Brig. Gen. John E.
Dahlquist, Acting Military Representative of
the United States of America, and M. Maurice
de Jean, representing the French National Com-
mittee. The texts of these documents are
printed below.
These agreements formalize the principles
and procedures applicable to the provision of
aid to the armed forces of the United States by
the other parties on the same terms as those
under which the United States supplies aid to
them in accordance with the provisions of the
Lend-Lease Act. Each of them, without await-
ing conclusion of a formal agreement, has been
providing such aid on these terms as occasion
required since the passage of the Lend-Lease
Act. This aid is rapidly increasing in impor-
tance as the intensity of the American war
effort increases in the various theaters of opera-
tions concerned.
Each of these agreements specifies that the
general principle governing the provision of
mutual aid is that the war production and war
resources of each contracting party should be
used in ways which most effectively utilize the
available materials, manpower, production fa-
cilities, and shipping space. The agreements
further specify that a maximum of the articles
and services provided by each party to the other
shall be in the form of reciprocal aid so that
the need of each for the currency of the other
may be reduced to a minimum. Each of the
other parties agrees to provide the armed forces
of the United States with military equipment,
munitions, military and naval stores, other sup-
plies, materials, facilities, and services when
they can most effectively be procured in their
respective countries.
The agreements with the Governments of
Australia and New Zealand also make applica-
ble to their relations with this Government the
principles of the agreement between the Gov-
ernments of tlie United States and the United
Kingdom on the principles applying to mu-
tual aid, signed in Washington on February
23, 1942.^
Note From the British, Amhassador to the
Secretary of State
Sir:
In the United Nations declaration of January
1, 1942, the contracting governments pledged
themselves to employ their full resources, mili-
tary or economic, against those nations with
which they are at war and in the Agreement of
February 23, 1942, each contracting government
undertook to provide the other with such ar-
ticles, services, facilities or information useful
in the prosecution of their common war under-
taking as each may be in a position to supply.
It is further the understanding of the Govern-
ment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland that the general principle
to be followed in providing mutual aid as set
forth in the said Agreement of February 23,
1942, is that the war production and the war
resources of both Nations should be used by the
armed forces of each and of the other United
Nations in ways which most effectively utilize
the available materials, manpower, production
facilities and shipping space.
With a view, therefore, to supplementing
Article 2 and Article 6 of the Agreement of Feb-
ruary 23, 1942, between our two Governments for
the provision of reciprocal aid, I have the honour
to set forth below the understanding of the Gov-
' Bulletin o£ February 28. 1042, p. 190. Also printed
as Executive Agreement Series 241.
SEPTEMBER 5, 1942
735
ernment of the United Kangdom of Great Brit-
ain and Northern Ireland of the principles and
procedures applicable to the provision of aid by
the Government of the United Kangdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the
armed forces of the United States and the man-
ner in which such aid will be correlated with
the maintenance of those forces by the United
States Government.
1. While each Government retains the right
of final decision, in the light of its own poten-
tialities and responsibilities, decisions as to the
most effective use of resources shall, so far as
possible, be made in common, pursuant to com-
mon plans for winning the war.
2. As to financing the provision of such aid,
within the fields mentioned below, it is the un-
derstanding of the Government of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire-
land that the general principle to be applied,
to the point at which the common war effort is
most effective, is that as large a portion as pos-
sible of the articles and services which each
Government may authorize to be provided to
the other shall be in the form of reciprocal aid
so that the need of each Government for the
currency of the other may be reduced to a
minimum.
It is accordingly the understanding of the
Government of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland that the United
States Government will provide, in accordance
with the provisions of, and to the extent author-
ized under, the Act of March 11, 1941, the share
of its war production made available to the
United Kangdom. The Government of the
United Kingdom will provide on the same terms
and as reciprocal aid so much of its war produc-
tion made available to the United States as it
authorizes in accordance with the Agi'eement of
February 23, 1942.
3. The Government of the United Kingdom
will provide the United States or its armed
forces with the following types of assistance as
such reciprocal aid, when it is found that they
can most effectively be procured in the United
Kingdom or in the British Colonial Empire :
(a) Military equipment, munitions and mili-
tary and naval stores.
(b) Other supplies, materials, facilities and
services for the United States forces, except for
the pay and allowances of such forces, adminis-
trative expenses, and such local purchases as its
official establishments may make other than
through the official establishments of the Gov-
ernment of the United Kingdom as specified in
paragraph 4.
(c) Supplies, materials and services needed in
the construction of military projects, tasks and
similar capital works required for the common
war effort in the United Kingdom or in the
British Colonial Empire, except for the wages
and salaries of United States citizens.
( d ) Supplies, materials and services needed in
the construction of such military projects, tasks
and capital works in territory other than the
United Kingdom or the British Colonial Empire
or territory of the United States to the extent
that the United Kingdom or the British
Colonial Empire is a more practicable source of
supply than the United States or another of the
United Nations.
4. The practical application of the principles
formulated in this note, including the procedure
by which requests for aid by either Government
are made and acted upon, shall be worked out as
occasion may require by agreement between the
two Governments, acting when possible through
their appropriate military or civilian adminis-
trative authorities. Bequests by the United
States Government for such aid will be presented
by duly authorized authorities of the United
States to official agencies of the United Kingdom
which will be designated or established in Lon-
don and in the areas where United States forces
are located for the purpose of facilitating the
provision of reciprocal aid.
5. It is the understanding of the Government
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland that all such aid, as well as
other aid, including information, received
under Article 6 of the Agreement of February
23, 1942, accepted by the President of the
United States or his authorized representa-
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736
DEPAHTMENT OF STATE BTTTiTiKTIN
tives from the Goveniment of the United
Kingdom will be received as a benefit to the
United States under the Act of March 11, 1941.
In so far as circumstances will permit, appro-
priate record of aid received under this ar-
rangement, except for miscellaneous facilities
and services, will be kept by each Government.
If the Government of the United States con-
curs in the foregoing, I would suggest that the
present note and your reply to that eileet be
regarded as placing on record the understand-
ing of our two Governments in this matter.
I have [etc.] Halifax
Note From, the Secretary of State to fhe British
Arribassador
Excellency :
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your note of today's date concerning the
principles and procedures applicable to the pro-
vision of aid by the Government of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire-
land to the armed forces of the United States
of America.
In reply I wish to inform you that the Gov-
ernment of the United States agrees with the
understanding of the Government of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire-
land as expressed in that note. In accordance
with the suggestion contained therein, your
note and this I'eply will be regarded as placing
on record the imderstanding between our two
Governments in this matter.
This further integration and strengthening
of our common war effort gives me great satis-
faction.
Accept [etc.] Cordell Hull
Note From the AustrnJian Minister to tlie
Secretary of State
Sih:
As contracting parties to the United Nations
Declaration of January 1, 1942, the Governments
of the United States of America and the Com-
monwealth of Australia pledged themselves to
employ their full resources, military and eco-
nomic, against those nations with which they
are at war.
AVith regard to the arrangements for mutual
aid between our two governments, I refer to the
agreement signed at Washington on February
23, 1942 between the Governments of the United
States of America and the United Kingdom on
principles applying to mutual aid in the present
war authorized and provided for by the Act of
Congress of March 11, 1941, and have the honour
to inform you that the Government of the Com-
monwealth of Australia accepts the principles
therein contained as governing the provision of
mutual aid between itself and the Government
of the United States of America.
It is the understanding of the Government of
the Commonwealth of Australia that the general
principle to be followed in providing such aid is
that the war production and war resources of
both nations should be used by the armed forces
of each, in the ways which most effectively uti-
lize available materials, manpower, production
facilities and shipping space.
I now set forth the unilerstanding of the Gov-
ernment of the Commonwealth of Australia of
the principles and proceduie applicable to the
provision of aid by the Government of the Com-
monwealth of Australia to the armed forces of
the United States and the manner in which such
aid will be correlated with the maintenance of
those forces by the United States Government.
1. AVhile each Government retains the right
of final decision, in the light of its own poten-
tialities and I'esponsibilities, decisions as to the
most effective use of resources shall, so far as
possible, be made in common, pursuant to com-
mon plans for winning the war.
2. As to financing the provision of such aid,
within the fields mentioned below, it is my un-
derstanding that the general principles to be ap-
plied to the point at which the common war ef-
fort is most effective, is that as large a portion
as possible of the articles and services which
each Govermiient may authorize to be provided
to the other shall be in the form of reciprocal aid
so that tlie need of each Government for the cur-
rency of the other- may be reduced to a minimum.
SEPTEMBER 5, 1942
737
It is accordingly my understanding that the
United States Government will provide, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of, and to the ex-
tent authorized under, the Act of March 11,
1941, the share of its war production made
available to Australia. Ihe Government of
Australia will provide on the same terms and
as reciprocal aid so much of its war production
made available to the United States as it au-
thorizes in accordance with the principles enun-
ciated in this note.
3. The Government of Australia will provide
as reciprocal aid the following types of assist-
ance to the armed forces of the United States in
Australia or its territories and in such other
cases as may be determined by common agree-
ment in the light of the development of the
war: —
(a) Military equipment, ammunition and
military and naval stores;
(b) Other supplies, material, facilities and
services for the United States forces except for
the pay and allowances of such forces, adminis-
trative expenses, and such local purchases as its
official establishments may make other than
through the official establishments of the Aus-
tralian Government as specified in paragraph 4.
(c) Supplies, materials and services needed
in the construction of military projects, tasks
and similar capital works required for the com-
mon war effort in Australia and in such other
places as may be determined, except for the
wages and salaries of United States citizens.
4. The practical application of the principles
formulated in this note, including the proce-
dure by which requests for aid by either Gov-
ernment are made and acted upon, shall be
worked out as occasion may require by agree-
ment between the two Governments, acting
when possible through their appropriate mili-
tary or civilian administrative authorities. Re-
quests by the United States Government for
such aid will be presented by duly authorized
authorities of the United States to official agen-
cies of the Commonwealth of Australia which
will be designated or established in Canberra
and in the areas where United States forces are
located for the purpose of facilitating the pro-
vision of i-eciprocal aid.
5. It is my understanding that all such aid
accepted by the President of the United States
or his authorized representatives from the Gov-
ernment of Australia will be received as a bene-
fit to the United States under the Act of March
11, 1941. Insofar as circumstances will permit
appropriate record of aid received under this
arrangement, except for miscellaneous facilities
and services, will be kept by each Government.
If the Government of the United States con-
curs in the foregoing, I would suggest that the
present note and your reply to that effect be re-
garded as placing on record the understanding
of our two Governments in this matter.
I have [etc.] Owen Dixon
Note From the Secretary of State to the
Ausfraliam, Minister
Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of
your note of today's date concerning the princi-
ples and procedures applicable to the provision
of aid by the Government of the Commonwealth
of Australia to the armed forces of the United
States of America.
In reply I have the honor to inform you that
the Government of the United States of Amer-
ica likewise accepts the principles contained
in the agreement of February 23, 1942 between
it and the Government oi the United Kingdom
as governing the provision of mutual aid be-
tween the Governments of the United States
and of the Commonwealth of Australia. My
Government agrees with the understanding of
the Government of the Commonwealth of Aus-
tralia as expressed in your note of today's date,
and, in accordance with the suggestion con-
tained therein, your note and tliis reply will be
regarded as placing on record the understand-
ing between our two Governments in this
matter.
This further integration and strengthening
of our common war effort gives me great
satisfaction.
Accept [etc.] Cordell Hwl
738
Note From the New Zealand Minister to the
Secretary of State
Sir:
As contracting parties to the United Nations
Declaration of January 1, 1942, the Govern-
ments of the United States of America and New
Zealand pledged themselves to employ their
full resources, military and economic, against
those nations with which they are at war.
In the Agreement of February 23, 1942, be-
tween the Governments of the United Kingdom
and of the United States of America, the pro-
visions and principles of which the Govern-
ment of New Zealand considers applicable to
its relations with the 'Government of the United
States, each contracting Government under-
took to provide the other with such articles,
services, facilities or information useful in the
prosecution of their common war undertaking
as each may be in a position to supply.
It is the understanding of the Government
of New Zealand that the general principle to
be followed in providing such aid is that the
war production and war resources of both na-
tions should be used by each, in the ways which
most effectively utilize available materials,
manpower, production facilities and shipping
space.
I now set forth the understanding of the
Government of New Zealand of the principles
and procedure applicable to the provision of aid
by the Government of New Zealand to the
armed forces of the United States and the man-
ner in which such aid will be correlated with
the maintenance of those forces by the United
States Government.
1. Wliile each Government retains the right
of final decision, in the light of its own poten-
tialities and responsibilities, decisions as to the
most effective use of resources shall, so far as
possible, be made in common, pursuant to com-
mon plans for winning the war.
2. As to financing the provision of such aid,
within the fields mentioned below, it is my lui-
derstanding that the general principle to be
applied, to the point at which the common war
effort is most effective, is that as large a portion
as possible of the articles and services to be pro-
DEPARTMKNT OF STATE BULI<E>TIN
vided by each Government to the other shall
be in the form of reciprocal aid so that the need
of each Government for the currency of the
other may be reduced to a minimum.
It is accordingly my understanding that the
United States Government will provide, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of, and to the ex-
tent authorized under, the Act of March 11,
1941, the share of its production made available
to New Zealand. The Government of New
Zealand will provide on the same terms and as
i-eciprocal aid so much of its production made
available to the United States as it authorizes
in accordance with the principles enunciated in
this note.
3. The Government of New Zealand will pro-
vide the United States or its armed forces with
the following types of assistance, as such recip-
rocal aid, when it is found that they can most
effectively be procured in New Zealand.
(a) Military equipment, munitions and mili-
■ tary and naval stores ;
(b) Other supplies, materials, facilities and
services for the United States forces, except for
the pay and allowance of such forces, admin-
istrative expenses, and such local purchases as
its official establisliments may make other than
through the official establishments of the Gov-
ernment of New Zealand as specified in Para-
graph 4.
(c) Supplies, materials and services needed
in the construction of military projects, tasks
and similar capital works required for the com-
mon war effort in New Zealand, except for the
wages and salaries of United States citizens.
(d) Supplies, materials and services needed
in the construction of such military projects,
tasks and capital works in territory other than
New Zealand or territory of the United States
to the extent that New Zealand is a more prac-
ticable source of supply than the United States
or another of the United Nations.
4. The practical application of the prin-
ciples formulated in this note, including the
procedure by which requests for aid by either
Government ai-e made and acted upon, shall be
worked out as occasion may require by agree-
ment between the two Governments, acting
SEPTEMBER 6, 1942
739
when possible through their appropriate mili-
tary or civilian administrative authorities.
5. It is my understanding that all such aid
accepted by the President of the United States
or his authorized representatives from the Gov-
ernment of New Zealand will be received as
a benefit to the United States under the Act
of March 11, 1941. In so far as circumstances
will permit, appropriate record of aid received
under this arrangement, except for miscellane-
ous facilities and services, will be kept by each
Government.
If the Government of the United States con-
curs in the foregoing, I would suggest that the
present note and your reply to that effect be
regarded as placing on record the understand-
ing of our two Governments in this matter.
I have [etc.] Walter Nash
Note From the Secretary of State to the New
Zealand Minister
Sik:
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of
your note of today's date concerning the prin-
ciples and procedures applicable to the provi-
sion of aid by the Government of New Zealand
to the armed forces of the United States of
America.
In reply I have the honor to inform you that
the Government of the United States of Amer-
ica likewise considers the provisions and prin-
ciples contained in the agreement of February
23, 1942 between it and the Government of the
United Kingdom as applicable to its relations
with the Government of New Zealand. My
Government agrees with the understanding of
the Government of New Zealand as expressed in
your note of today's date, and, in accordance
with the suggestion contained therein, your note
and this reply will be regarded as placing on
record the understanding between our two Gov-
ernments in this matter.
This further integration and strengthening
of our common war effort gives me great
satisfaction.
Accept [etc.] CordellHuli.
Note From the French National Committee to
the Acting Military Representative of the
United States
The French National Committee sets forth
below its understanding of the principles gov-
erning the provision of reciprocal aid by the
United States of America to Fighting France
and by Fighting France to the United States :
1. The United States of America will con-
tinue to supply Fighting France with such de-
fense articles, defense services, and defense in-
formation as the President shall authorize to
be transferred or provided.
2. Fighting France will continue to contrib-
ute to the defense of the United States of Amer-
ica and the strengthening thereof and will pro-
vide such articles, services, facilities or infor-
mation as it may be in a position to supply.
3. The fundamental principle to be followed
in providing such aid is that the war produc-
tion and war resources of Fighting France and
of the United States of America should be used
by the armed forces of each in the ways which
most effectively utilize available materials,
manpower, production facilities and shipping
space. While each retains the right of final de-
cision, in the light of its own potentialities and
responsibilities, decisions as to the most effec-
tive use of resources shall, so far as possible, be
made in common, pursuant to common plans for
winning the war.
4. As to financing the provision of such aid,
within the fields mentioned below, it is the Com-
mittee's understanding that the general prin-
ciple to be applied, to the point at which the
common war effort is most effective, is that as
large a portion as possible of the articles and
services to be provided by each to the other
shall be in the form of reciprocal aid.
It is accordingly the Committee's under-
standing that the United States Government
will provide, in accordance with tlie provisions
of, and to the extent authorized under, the Act
of March 11, 1941, the share of its war produc-
tion made available to Fighting France. Fight-
ing France will provide on the same terms and
as reciprocal aid so much of its war production
740
made available to the United States as it author-
izes in accordance with the principles enunci-
ated in this note.
5. Within the territories under the control of
Fighting France, or within the same theater
of operations, the National Committee will pro-
vide the United States or its armed forces
with the following types of assistance, as such
reciprocal aid, when it is found that they can
most effectively be procured in territory under
the control of Fighting France :
(a) Military equipment, munitions and mili-
tary and naval stores;
(b) Other supplies, materials, facilities and
services for the United States forces, except for
the pay and allowances of such forces, adminis-
trative expenses, and such local purchases as its
official establishments may make other than
through the official establishments of Fighting
France as specified in paragraph 6.
(c) Supplies, materials and services, except
for the wages and salaries of United States citi-
zens, needed in the construction of military
projects, tasks and similar capital works re-
quired for the common war effort in territory
under the control of Fighting France, or in the
same theater of operations, to the extent that
such territory is the most practicable source of
supply.
6. The practical application of the principles
formulated in this note, including the procedure
by which requests for aid are made and acted
upon, shall be worked out by agreement as occa-
sion may require through the appropriate mili-
tary or civilian administrative authorities. Be-
quests by the United States forces for such aid
will be presented by their duly authorized
authorities to official agencies of Fighting
France which will be designated or established
in the areas where United States forces are
located for the purpose of facilitating the pro-
vision of reciprocal aid.
7. It is the Committee's understanding that
all such aid accepted by the President of the
United States or his authorized representatives
from Fighting France will be received as a
benefit to the United States under the Act of
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
March 11, 1941. In so far as circumstances will
permit, appropriate record of aid received
under this arrangement, except for miscel-
laneous facilities and services, will be kept by
each.
If the Government of the United States con-
curs in the foregoing, the present note and a
reply to that effect will be regarded as placing
on record the understanding in this matter.
Note From the Acting Military Representative
of the United States to the French National
Committee
The Govermnent of the United States of
America agrees with the understanding of the
National Committee, as expressed in the Eng-
lish text of the Committee's note of today's
date, concerning the principles and procedures
applicable to the provision of aid by Fighting
France to the armed forces of the United States
of America and, in accordance with the sugges-
tion contained therein, that note and this reply
will be regarded as placing on record the under-
standing in this matter.
UNITED STATES TECHNICAL MISSION
TO BRAZIL
[Released to the press by the White House September 2]
The President announced on September 2 that
a special United States technical mission of in-
dustrial engineers, headed by Morris Llewellyn
Cooke, will leave soon for Brazil to cooperate
with experts of that country in developing
Brazilian industi-y and war production.
At the request of the Brazilian Government
the mission has been organized by the Board of
Economic Warfare, the Department of State,
and the War Production Board. The general
plan of the cooperative mission was agreed upon
several weeks ago, and a group of Brazilian in-
dustrial experts has already been selected to
work with the United States technicians. The
scope and urgency of their work have been con-
siderably increased as a result of Brazil's decla-
ration of war against Germany and Italy.
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741
The basic objectives of the mission are : (a) to
increase local production of essential products,
especially those which formerly were imported
from the United States, in order to save ship-
ping space; (b) to convert local industries to
the use of substitute raw materials, replacing
supplies ordinarily imported; (c) to maintain
and improve transportation facilities; and (d)
to lay the foundation for a long-range strength-
ening of Brazil's whole industrial economy.
The program will be directed toward a further
increase in Brazil's already important contribu-
tion of vital materials for her own and the
United Nations' joint war effort.
Large shipments of machinery and plant
equipment will not be involved in the develop-
ment program. It will be based largely on prac-
tical recommendations for the application of
mass-production methods and modern indus-
trial techniques, in addition to adjustment and
conversion measures.
Fuel and power are primary problems in the
Brazilian industrialization program. The mis-
sion will consider measures to increase Brazil's
power production or to convert its plants to
alternative fuels. Expansion of existing ore-
reduction plants in Brazil will be studied, with
the purpose of releasing considerable equipment
in the United Nations and at the same time sav-
ing thousands of tons of vital shipping space.
Textile and other general manufacturing plants
will be surveyed in an effort to use Brazil's sur-
plus textile fibers and to increase production of
essential consumer goods. These and many
other specific problems will be considered in the
general program.
Mon-is Llewellyn Cooke, who will direct the
United States mission, is an outstanding indus-
trial engineer with an unusually wide range of
practical experience. He has served as chair-
man of the Mississippi Valley Commission and
of the Great Plains Commission. He was Ad-
ministrator of the Rural Electrification Admin-
istration from 1935 to 1937. In 1941 Mr. Cooke
was named by the President as expert for the
evaluation of the United States petroleum prop-
erties expropriated by Mexico.
Through the facilities of the Brazilian Inter-
American Development Commission, the Of-
fice of the Coordinator of Inter-American
Affairs will cooperate in the development of an
enlarged force of trained workers to man Bra-
zil's expanding war production program.
RELIEF FOR AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR HELD BY JAPAN
[Eeleaaed to the press August 31]
The following message concerning relief for
prisoners of war held by Japan has been trans-
mitted by the Acting Secretary of State to the
Japanese Government through the Swiss au-
thorities :
"1. The Japanese Government has agreed to
apply the provisions of the Geneva Prisoners
of War Convention of 1929 to American pri-
soners of war and civilian internees. Article
37 of that Convention provides for the receipt
by prisoners of supplies of food and clothing
supplemental to those which it is the duty of
the detaining power to furnish, in as much as
it states that prisoners shall be allowed to re-
ceive parcels intended to supply them with food
or clothing. It further states that such parcels
shall be delivered to the prisoners.
"2. The American Red Cross assumed that
the Japanese Government would grant safe
conduct for a Red Cross ship to transport sup-
plemental supplies of food and clothing des-
tined to American and other prisoners of war
and civilian internees in Japanese custody as
German and Italian Governments have done
and are continuing to do for supplies being
sent for prisoners and internees in their cus-
tody. Accordingly, the American Red Cross
chartered the neutral Swedish motorship Kan-
angoora to carry such supplies and the ship
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is now ready to sail from San Francisco 'with
the supplies. It is to be operated by the Inter-
national Red Cross Committee, a representative
of which, who will be a citizen of a neutral
country, will be the only person on board be-
sides the Swedish citizens composing the crew.
"3. The American Red Cross has requested,
through the channels of the International Red
Cross Committee, the consent of the Japanese
Government for the voyage of the ship to Man-
ila via Kobe, Shanghai and Hong Kong, with
the supplies. The United States Government
also has officially asked for that consent through
the channels of the Swiss Government repre-
senting the interests of the United States in
Japan. Through both channels the Japanese
Government has now replied refusing such con-
sent. It states that it does not object, however,
to such shipments on vessels exchanging Jap-
anese and United States nationals at Louren^o
Marques.
"4. The motorship Oripsholm used by the
United States Government in the exchange of
Japanese and Americans at Lourengo Marques
does not have sufficient cargo carrying capacity
to transport the amount of supplies which it is
desired to send to prisoners and internees in
the Far East. Moreover, the exchange ship
does not provide a means of continued trans-
portation of such supplies. Additional ship-
ping must therefore be employed if the prison-
ers and internees are to receive supplementary
supplies as provided for by the Convention.
"5. If the Japanese Government will not per-
mit the Kariangoora to proceed on its proposed
voyage to the Far East with the supplies in
question, then the United States Government
proposes that the Japanese Government agree
that the Kanangoora or other Red Cross ship
shall proceed from the United States with the
supplies to Macau or to LourenQo Marques, to
which port the Japanese Government will sim-
ilarly send a Red Cross ship to receive the sup-
plies and transport them for delivery to the
prisoners and internees. The United States
Government desires to point out in this con-
nection that it is incumbent upon the Japanese
Government to facilitate by whatever means
may be available, the delivery of parcels in-
tended for prisoners in fulfillment of the obli-
gation of the detaining power to allow prisoners
to receive parcels and to deliver the parcels to
them as provided by Article 37 of the Geneva
Prisoners of War Convention. The United
States Government, while looking to the Japa-
nese Government to fulfill its obligations under
the Convention in this matter, is fully conscious
of its own obligations thereunder."
RADIO ADDRESS BY THE FORMER
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN
The Department of State, on August 31, 1942,
issued as press release no. 430 the text of an
address by the Honorable Joseph C. Grew,
former American Ambassador to Japan, which
was broadcast on August 30, 1942. As the text
of this address was available before last week's
issue of the Bulletin went to press, it was in-
cluded in that issue, beginning on page 719.
PROCLAIMED LIST: SUPPLEMENT 1
TO REVISION III
[Released to the press Angiiet 31]
The Secretary' of State, acting in conjunction
with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attor-
ney General, the Secretary of Commerce, the
Board of Economic Warfare, and the Coordi-
nator of Inter-American Affairs, on August 31
issued Supplement 1 to Revision III of the
Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals,
promulgated August 10. 1942.'
Part I of this supplement contains 296 addi-
tional listings in the other American republics
and 45 deletions. Part II contains 216 addi-
tional listings outside the American republics
and 27 deletions.
With the issuance of this supplement the
Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals
' 7 Federal Register 6847.
SEPTEMBER 6, 1942
743
has been extended to include certain cases in
Spanish Morocco and Tangier International
Zone.
The Department
International Conferences,
Commissions, Etc.
INTER-AMERICAN CONGRESS ON SOCIAL
PLANNING
[Released to the press September 1]
This Government has accepted the invitation
of the Chilean Government to be represented
at the Inter-American Congress on Social Plan-
ning, which will be held at Santiago, Chile,
September 10-16, 1942. The President has ap-
proved the designation of the following delega-
tion to represent the United States at the
Congress :
Delegates:
Arthur J. Altmeyer, Ph.D., Chairman, Social Security
Board, Federal Security Agency; chairman of
the delegation
A. Ford Hinrichs, Ph.D., Acting Commissioner, Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor
George St. J. Perrott, Chief, Division of Public Health
Methods, National Institute of Health, Public
Health Service
Emile Rieve, President of the Textile Workers of
America, and Vice President of the Congress
of Industrial Organizations, Washington, D. C.
Technical Adviser:
Wilbur Cohen, Technical Adviser to the Social
Security Board, Federal Security Agency
Secretaries:
John M. Clark, Ph.D., Director, Emergency Rehabili-
tation Division, Office of the Coordinator of
Inter-American Affairs
Sheldon T. Mills, Second Secretary, American Em-
bassy, Santiago, Chile
The forthcoming Congress will give attention
to broad questions of social planning, particu-
larly the organization and admipistration of
social-security systems and a review of desir-
able facilities to be made available to bene-
ficiaries.
THE DIVISION OF DEPARTMENTAL
PERSONNEL
On August 31, 1942 the Secretary of State
issued Departmental Order 1086, the provisions
of which were to become effective September
1, 1942. The text of the order follows :
"The Division of Personnel Supervision and
Management is hereby abolished and its func-
tions transferred to a newly created Division of
Departmental Personnel.
"Mr. John C. Ross is hereby designated Exec-
utive Officer of the Department of State and
Chief of the Division of Departmental Per-
sonnel. Under the general direction of the
Assistant Secretary of State and Budget Officer
or, in his absence, under the Secretary of State,
he shall plan, direct, control, and have responsi-
bility for all administrative aspects of the
formulation and execution of policy, and shall
serve as principal adviser and coordinator of
the Department in such matters.
"As the Executive Officer of the Department,
Mr. Ross shall have responsibility :
"(1) for appraising existing policy making,
policy executing, and administrative functions
of the Department of State and the interrela-
tionships of such functions with the policy mak-
ing, policy executing, and administrative func-
tions of other departments and agencies and of
interdepartmental and intergovernmental agen-
cies;
"(2) for developing sound principles of au-
thority, responsibility, organization, and ad-
ministration which will insure effective coordi-
nation of policy and action ; he shall have final
authority in carrying out such principles after
approval by the Assistant Secretary of State
and Budget Officer or, in his absence, the Sec-
retary of State ;
"(3) for defining the functions, responsibili-
ties, and authority of the divisions and offices
of the Department ; and
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"(4) for maintaining surveillance over
trends in foreign and domestic policy, in so far
as they affect or have a hearing on the functions
of the Department of State, with a view to fore-
seeing the need for new or revised policies and
to planning, initiating, and coordinating ad-
ministrative action to give effect to such policies
concurrently with their adoption.
"In carrying out these functions, he shall con-
sult with and advise the Secretary, Under Secre-
tary and Assistant Seci-etaries of State, the
Special Assistants to the Secretary, the Advisers
on Political Relations, the Adviser on Inter-
national Economic Affairs, and the Chiefs of
the divisions and offices ; work in close collabora-
tion with the Chiefs of the Division of Foreign
Service Personnel and of the Division of For-
eign Service Administration in the coordination
of Departmental and Foreign Service adminis-
tration ; and particiioate, as consultant and
adviser, in meetings of intradepartmental and
interdepartmental groups and intergovern-
mental agencies whenever problems of au-
thority, responsibility, organization or adminis-
tration in the formulation and execution of
policy are under consideration.
"As Chief of the Division of Departmental
Personnel, Mr. Ross shall direct and have gen-
eral supervision over its functions embracing
organizational; procedural; fiscal and budg-
etary, including the administration of the Ap-
propriation, 'Salaries, Department of State';
classification; recruitment; appointment; effi-
ciency rating; leave; retirement; personnel
relations; training; and related personnel func-
tions involved in the administration of the
Departmental Service ; and the preparation of
nominations and commissions.
"The Executive Officer and Chief of the Divi-
sion of Departmental Personnel shall serve as
a member of the Council of Personnel Adminis-
tration, and as liaison officer with the Civil
Service Conunission, the Central Statistical
Board, with military and Selective Service
officials in matters relating to deferments of
Departmental personnel from military training
or service, and with other executive departments
and agencies of this Government in all matters
relating to his functions. He shall have cus-
tody of the Seal of the United States. He shall
certify payrolls and vouchers covering expendi-
tures for salaries for the Department proper
and other expenditures of appropriated funds
where certifying authority has not otherwise
been specifically delegated, as directed imder
the written authorization of the Assistant
Secretary of State and Budget Officer or, in his
absence, another Assistant Secretary of State.
He shall certify to the correctness of emploj'ees'
service records and to the amounts credited to
the Civil Service Retirement Fund in accord-
ance therewith ; and he shall sign and certify
such other papers as may be necessary in the
performance of his functions in so far as not in
conflict with existing laws and regulations.
"The symbol designation of the Division of
Departmental Personnel shall be DP. . . ."
APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
Mr. Jacques J. Reinstein was appointed an
Assistant Chief of the Foreign Funds Control
Division, effective September 1, 1942 (Depart-
mental Order 1087).
Mr. Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., was desig-
nated an Acting Assistant Chief of the Foreign
Funds Control Division, effective September 2,
1942 (Departmental Order 1088).
Mr. Frederick T. Merrill was designated an
Acting Assistant Chief of the American Hemi-
sphere Exports Office, effective September 3,
1942 (Departmental Order 1089).
Treaty Information
MUTUAL GUARANTIES
Agreements With the United Kingdom, Aus-
tralia, New Zealand, and the French National
Conimittee
A statement regarding the agreements con-
cluded on September 3, 1942 between the United
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745
States of Amei'ica and the United Kingdom,
Australia, New Zealand, and the French Na-
tional Committee specifying the principles and
procedures applicable to the provision of aid to
the United States and its armed forces; the
texts of the notes exchanged at Washington be-
tween the Secretary of State and the British
Ambassador, the Australian Minister, and the
New Zealand Minister ; and the texts of the notes
exchanged at London between Brig. Gen. John
E. Dahlquist, Acting Military Representative
of the United States of America, and M. Maur-
ice de Jean, representing the French National
Committee, appear in this Bulletin under the
heading "The War".
RESTRICTION OF WAR
Convention Relating to the Treatment of
Prisoners of War
The text of a message concerning relief for
prisoners of war held by Japan, which was
transmitted by the Acting Secretary of State
to the Japanese Government through the Swiss
authorities, appears in this Bulletin under the
heading "The AVar".
Publications
Department of State
The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals.
Supplement 1, August 28, 1942, to Revision III of
August 10, 1942. Publication 17S8. 23 pp. Free.
Legislation
National Defense Migration: Hearings Before the Se-
lect Committee Investigating National Defense Migra-
tion, House of Representatives, 77th Cong., 2cl sess.,
pursuant to H. Res. 113, a resolution to inquire fur-
ther into the interstate migration of citizens, empha-
sizing the present and potential consequences of the
migration caused by the national defense program.
Part 33. Washington hearings. May 22, June 11, 19,
1942. [Testimony of George H. Winters, Assistant
Chief, Division of the American Republics, Depart-
ment of State, p. 12440 ; symposium ou the question of
need for importation of Mexican labor: statement by
Laurence Duggan, Adviser on Political Relations,
Department of State, p. 12455.] pp. x, 12413-13053.
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ontents
The War'
Advisory Technical Mission to India
Staff Conferences at London
British Military Operations in Madagascar ....
Reply to French Protest Against Bombiags in France
Military and Naval Cooperation With Cuba ....
Protest to Marshal Petain by Two French Patriots .
American Republics
Anniversary of Brazilian Independence
Rubber Agreements With Guatemala and Mexico .
General
Celebration of the Jewish New Year .
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Appointment of Officers 752
Treaty Information
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Strategic Materials: Rubber Agreements With Gua-
temala and Mexico ■ 753
Legislation 753
Publications 753
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The War
ADVISORY TECHNICAL MISSION TO INDIA
[Released to the press September 12]
A joint statement by the Governments of the
United States and India regarding the submis-
sion of the final report of the Technical Mission
to India ^ follows :
"The final report of the American Technical
Mission has been submitted by its Chairman,
Dr. Henry F. Grady, to the Governments of
India and the United States. The report con-
tains much factual data concei-ning the produc-
tion in India of essential war materials and the
recommendations of the Mission for the expan-
sion of such production. The two Goverimients
are now engaged in studying the Mission's re-
port and the manner m which its various recom-
mendations may be implemented.
"The function of the Mission was to investi-
gate the industrial resources of India and to
recommend ways and means by which these re-
sources could be developed to augment produc-
tion for war purposes. The work of the Mission,
therefore, was directly related to the common
war effort of the United Nations and was not
connected with the post-war mdustrial and com-
mercial problems of India. The report of the
Mission contains a survey of the principal indus-
tries of India ancillary to the war effort and its
principal industrial requirements. For each of
these, the Mission made recommendations sug-
gesting action by either the Government of
India or the Government of the United States.
In those instances in which additional output
was shown to be required, the Mission recom-.
'Bulletin of March 7, 1942, p. 209; March 14, 1942,
p. 230 ; and March 28, 1942, p. 260.
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mended the erection of new plants or the instal-
lation of additional machinery in existing
plants. It also suggested the rearrangement of
existing machinery in order that maximum effi-
ciency in production might be attained. The
congestion at certain Indian ports i-eceived the
attention of the Mission, which made various
recormnendations designed to expedite the load-
ing, unloading, and i-epair of ships. In addi-
tion, it called attention 1 o the overburdened con-
dition of the railways and suggested measures
for its alleviation. Vigorous steps have already
been taken by the Government of India to im-
plement some of the recommendations contained
in the preliminary report of the Mission ; and in
this program it is being assisted by equipment
and material from the United States and the
United Kingdom.
"With the full approval of the Government
of India, the Mission recommended that a num-
ber of production engineers and technicians be
sent fi'om the United States to advise and assist
in increasing the industrial production in India.
Steps have already been taken to secure the
services of these experts and a number of them
will soon be departing to undertake their new
and imi^ortant assignments.
"The Governments of India and the United
States have been impressed with the compre-
hensive character of the Mission's report. Its
recormnendations appear to be both constructive
and timely. The Governments concerned will
determine the extent to which the Mission's pro-
gram is to be implemented and will seek
promptly to execute their decision."
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STAFF CONFERENCES AT LONDON
[Released to the press by the White House September 8)
Announcement was made at the White House
on September 8 of a conference held in London
in July between British and American officials.
The representatives of the United States Gov-
ernment were Harry L. Hopkins, Personal Rep-
resentative of the President; General George C.
MarshaU, Chief of Staff of the Army ; and Ad-
miral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Opera-
tions. The American Chiefs of Staff and Mr.
Hopkins held important meetings covering a
period of 10 days with the British Chiefs of
Staff and the British Prime Minister. At these
conferences the whole conduct of the war was
thoroughly canvassed and, with the approval of
the President, the necessary decisions regarding
military operations were made.
Stephen Early, Secretary to the President,
was in London at the same tune for conferences
with Brendon Bracken, British Minister of
Public Information.
On the return trip from London the American
conferees visited Iceland and inspected the
American bases there.
BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS
IN MADAGASCAR
[Released to the press September 10]
The Government of the United States has
been informed by the Government of the United
Kingdom that developments in Madagascar sub-
sequent to the occupation of Diego-Suarez have
not resulted in adequate safeguards against
Axis penetration in other parts of the island.
In the circumstances the British Govermnent,
with the approval of the Government of the
United States, has deemed it absolutely neces-
sary to undertake further military operations
in that area.
The Government of the United States recog-
nizes that military considerations must be para-
mount in reaching such a decision. The pene-
tration or occupation of any part of Mada-
gascar by the Axis powers would constitute a
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definite and a serious danger to the United Na-
tions. The full military occupation of the
island by British forces will therefore not only
contribute to the successful conduct of the war
against the Axis forces but will be in the in-
terest of the United Nations.
As stated in the State Department's an-
nouncement of May 4, 1942 ^ the Governments
of the United States and the United Kingdom
are in accord that Madagascar will be restored
to France after the war or at any time that the
occupation of the island is no longer essential
to the common cause of the United Nations.
REPLY TO FRENCH PROTEST AGAINST
BOMBINGS IN FRANCE
[Released to the press September 8]
The American Charge in Vichy, Mr. S. Pink-
ney Tuck, on September 7 was called in by Mon-
sieur Laval who said that in recent bombings of
Le Havre and Rouen by combined military
forces of the United Nations a number of people
were killed and others wounded and that he, M.
Laval, desired to enter a protest to the American
Government since it was reported some Ajneri-
can flyers participated. Mr. Tuck's immediate
reply was that these air forces were bombing
military plants in the employ of Germany and
that, of course, the Americans do not desire to
see the French people suffer any more than can
be avoided since they have already suffered to
an incalculable extent under German occupation
but that M. Laval must be assured that the
military plants operated by or for Germany and
other German military properties in France wiU
be bombed at every opportunity in the future.
MILITARY AND NAVAL COOPERATION
WITH CUBA
[Released to the press September 7]
Word has been received from the Honorable
Spruille Braden, American Ambassador to
Cuba, of the signature on September 7 by the
' Bulletin of May 9, 1942, p. 391.
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751
Minister of State of Cuba and by the Ambassa-
dor in behalf of the United States, of an agree-
ment on military and naval cooperation between
the two Governments.
This agreement, which was negotiated on the
part of the United States by representatives of
the Departments of State, War, and Navy and
by the highest civilian and military authorities
of the Cuban Govermnent, coordinates all the
special military and naval measures between
Cuba and the United States which have been
taken since the beginning of the war and facili-
tates the taking of new measures, for the dura-
tion of the war, of military and naval security
by the appropriate authorities of the respective
armed forces as the necessity arises and without
the need for individual negotiations in each
case.
The rapidity with which United States and
Cuban authorities negotiated and concluded
the agreement is conclusive evidence of the
unanimity of views of the two Governments.
Although details of the agreement cannot be
released for reasons of military security, it may
be stated that the agreement outlines the re-
spective responsibilities of the armed forces of
the two countries in the zone affected and pro-
vides for coordination of their efforts and com-
plete cooperation on the basis of reciprocity.
PROTEST TO MARSHAL PfiTAIN BY TWO
FRENCH PATRIOTS
At the press conference of the Secretary of
State on September 11, 1942 a correspondent
remarked that from an undisclosed place prob-
ably near Lyon, France, the Mayor of Lyon and
former Premier, Edouard Herriot, and another
French patriot, Jules Jeanneney, former Presi-
dent of the French Senate, addressed a letter to
Marshal Petain in which they accused him of
going beyond the powers vested in him by the
French people and, in effect, of betraying his
trust.
In reply to a request for comment, the Secre-
tary of State said that to us and to the French
people generally, there is a tremendous signifi-
cance in the utterances of those two noted
Frenchmen, one of whom he thought belonged
to what they call the Right and the other per-
haps to the Left Center. With rare courage, the
Secretary continued, they were proclaiming
what this Government has joined with all lovers
of liberty and human rights and popular insti-
tutions in France in proclaiming for some time.
The Secretary added that their words will al-
ways live in history and that this Government is
naturally gratified to be associated with patri-
otic Frenchmen who have the courage again to
proclaim all the rights and liberties and the
popular institutions that made the great French
Republic forever historic.
American Republics
ANNIVERSARY OF BRAZILIAN
INDEPENDENCE
[Released to the press September 7]
The texts of telegrams transmitted by the
President of the United States to His Excel-
lency Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, and
by the Secretary of State to His Excellency Os-
waldo Aranha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, on
the occasion of the aimiversary of the inde-
pendence of Brazil, follow :
"September 7, 1942.
"On this anniversary of the independence of
the Brazilian nation the historic words pro-
claimed at Ypiranga one hundred and twenty
years ago assume a special significance. I and
my fellow citizens in sending you these greetings
of courage and friendship today derive deep
satisfaction from the knowledge that the people
of your country and mine are joined in the com-
radeship of arms as free citizens of the Amer-
icas fighting our common enemy.
"I am happy to send Your Excellency my
sincere good wishes for your personal welfare
to lead the great Brazilian nation to a victorious
and lasting peace.
Fbanklin D Roosevelt"
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"September 7, 1942.
"I take very special pleasure in sending Your
Excellency and through you to your Govern-
ment my good wishes on this anniversary of the
independence of the Brazilian nation. I know
that I express the feeling of the peojjle of the
United States who have so long been joined with
the people of Brazil in ties of friendship when I
say that our joint efforts in the war are the best
assurance for the attainment of the high objec-
tives for which the free peoples of the continent
have always striven.
"Please accept [etc.] Cordell Hull"
RUBBER AGREEMENTS WITH GUATE-
MALA AND MEXICO
[Released to the press September 10]
The signing of a rubber agreement with
Guatemala was announced on September 10 by
the Department of State, the Rubber Reserve
Company, and the Board of Economic Warfare.
Under the terms of the agreement the Rubber
Reserve Company will purchase, imtil December
31, 1946, all rubber produced in Guatemala
which is not required for essential domestic
needs.
[Released to the press September 11]
The signing of a rubber agreement with
Mexico was announced on September 11 by the
Department of State, tlie Rubber Reserve Com-
pany, and the Board of Economic AVarfare.
Under the terms of the agreement the Rubber
Reserve Company will purchase, until December
31, 1946, any exportable surplus of tree rubber
and all guayule and other plant rubber produced
in Mexico during that period. The agreement
also contains provisions with respect to the limi-
tation of the use of rubber products in Mexico.
Under the terms of the agreement a substantial
development fund is to be established by the
Rubber Reserve Company for the purpose of
obtaining the maximum production of wild rub-
ber in Mexico.
General
CELEBRATION OF THE JEWISH NEW
YEAR
[Released to the press September 11]
The Secretary of State has issued the foUow-
mg message on the occasion of the celebration
of the Jewish New Year :
"On the occasion of the observance of the
Jewish New Year, I take particular pleasure in
extending my greetings to all Americans of the
Jewish faith. At this period of anguish for so
many of their co-religionists, it is inspiring to
see how this esteemed and loyal group of our
fellow citizens are united in their determination
to contribute in every possible waj' to the victory
against our enemies which will come as a result
of a complete defeat of the Axis powers."
The Department
APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
Mr. Warden McK. Wilson, a Foreign Service
officer of class III, was designated an Assistant
Chief of the Caribbean Office, and Acting Chief
during the temporary absence from the Depart-
ment of Mr. Coert duBois, effective from
August 14, 1942 (Departmental Order 1083).
Treaty Information
MILITARY AND NAVAL COOPERATION
Agreement With Cuba
An announcement regarding the conclusion
of an agreement on military and naval coopera-
tion with the Government of Cuba appears in
this Bulletin under the heading "The War".
SEPTEMBER 12, 1942
STRATEGIC MATERIALS
Rubber Agreements With Guatemala and
Mexico
Announcements regarding the signing of
agreements with the Governments of Guatemala
and Mexico for the purchase of rubber appear
in this BulUthi under the heading "American
Republics".
Legislation
Investigation of the National Defense Program : Hear-
ings Before a Special Committee Investigating the
National Defense Program, U. S. Senate, 77th Cong.,
pursuant to S. Res. 71. Part 11. March 5, 24, 26, 27,
31 and April 1, 2, 3, 7, 1942. Rubber. [Testimony of
Assistant Secretary Berle, pp. 4.506-4515.] pp. xlv,
4261-4955.
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Amending Law Detailing Military Personnel to South
American Countries [so as to include, during wartime,
other countries outside the Western Hemisphere if
the President deems such details to be in the public
interest]. H. Rept. 2439, 77th Cong., on S. 2686. 3 pp.
Publications
Department or State
Exchange of Official Publications : Agreement Between
the United States of America and Bolivia — Effected
by exchange of notes signed January 26 and 31, 1942 ;
effective January 31, 1942. Executive Agreement
Series 242. Publication 17S6. 9 pp. 5«f.
Principles Applying to Mutual Aid in the Prosecution of
the War Against Aggression : Preliminary Agreement
Between the United States of America and the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland —
Signed at Washington February 23, 1942 ; effective
February 23, 1942. Executive Agreement Series 241.
Publication 1790. 3 pp. 50.
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Transfer of a Warship to Norway Under the Lend-Lease
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Address by the Former American Ambassador to Japan,
September 14
Address by the Former American* Ambassador to Japan,
September 18
Negotiations for Relief to American Prisoners of War
Held by Japan
Reported Plans for Conscription of French Labor for
Use in Germany
Attempt to Conscript Citizens of Luxembourg for the
German Army
Appointment of Special Assistant in London in Charge
of Economic- Warfare Activities
American Republics
Anniversaries of Independence:
Brazil
ChUe
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Rubber Agreement With Panama
Death of Ex-President Terra of Uruguay
The Far East
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TRANSFER OF A WARSHIP TO NORWAY UNDER THE LEND-LEASE ACT
[Released to the press by the White House September 16]
At the Washington Navy Yard on September
16, upon the occasion of the transfer of a ship
to tlie Norwegian Government under the Lend-
Lease Act, the President and Her Royal High-
ness the Crown Princess Martha of Norway
spoke as follows:
YouK Royal Highness, Mk. Ambassador:
If there is anyone who still wonders why
this war is being fought, let him look to Nor-
way. If there is anyone who has any delusions
that this war could have been averted, let him
look to Norway. And if there is anyone who
doubts the democratic will to win, again I say,
let him look to Norway.
He will find in Norway, at once conquered and
unconquerable, the answer to liis questioning.
We all know how this most peaceful and inno-
cent of countries was ruthlessly violated. The
combination of treachery and brute force which
conquered Norway will live in history as the
blackest deed of a black era. Norway fought
valiantly with what few weapons thei"e were at
hand — and fell.
And with Norway fell the concept that either
remoteness from political controversy or use-
fulness to mankind could give any nation im-
munity from attack in a world where aggression
spread unchecked.
But the story of Norway since the conquest
shows that while a free democracy may be
slow to realize its danger, it can be heroic
when aroused. At home, the Norwegian peo-
ple have silently resisted the invader's will
with grim endurance. Abroad, Norwegian
ships and Norwegian men have rallied to the
cause of the United Nations. And their assist-
ance to that cause has been out of all propor-
tion to their small numbers. The Norwegian
merchant marine has lost some 200 ships and
1,300 seamen in carrying the supplies vital to
our own and Allied forces overseas. Nor has
the Norwegian Navy been less active. Norse
fighting ships battled valiantly but vainly
against the invader, destroying one third of
the German invasion fleet before they were
overwhelmed by superior forces. Right now
the blue cross of Norway flies on the fourth
largest Navy of the United Nations — a Navy
whose operations extend from the North Sea
to the Indian Ocean.
It is today the privilege of the people of the
United States, through the mechanism of the
lend-lease law, to assist this gallant Navy in
carrying out its present heavy duties.
Your Royal Highness, as a token of the
admiration and friendship of the American
people toward your country and her Navy, I
ask you to receive this ship. We Americans,
together with the millions of loyal Norwegians,
are glad that this ship is being given today
the name of the King of Norway — a leader
well versed in the ways of the sea, a true
leader who, with his people, has always stood
for the freedom of the seas for all nations.
May this ship long keep the seas in the battle
for liberty. May the day come when she will
carry the Norwegian flag into a home port in
a free Norway !
Mr. President:
On behalf of the King and the Government
of Norway I am very happy to accept this ship
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of war. which under the provisions of the Lend-
Lease Act vou have today transferred to mv
countTT. Having jtisi returned from London.
I am in a position to bear personal witness
to the deep appreciation with which your
friendly and generous action is being received
by those who lead the Norwegian people in its
fight for freedom.
But not only the leaders — also Norwegian
men and women everywhere, on sea and on land,
on the home front, and on the external front —
are stirred at what is taking place here today.
It is not alone what this admirable, technically
complete submarine chaser means as an addition
to our fighting Navy but also, and not the least,
what it signifies as an expression of the friend-
ship and common purpose of our great comrade
in arms, the American people.
The beautiful and generous words just ex-
pres^d by you, ^Ir. President, about the Nor-
wegian people and its contribution to oiu- com-
mon catise. will ultimately find their way to
everv Norwegian home, every Norwegian ship
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on the seven seas — yes, everywhere on this globe
where Norwegian men and women are praying
and working and fighting to regain the free and
happy Norway of our deepest longing.
Especially coming from one whose clear
vision and imfalterrng courage has contributed
immeasurably to rally the forces of freedom,
vour words will bring hope and renewed faith
in deliverance from the yoke of the barbarians.
The tidings of America's rapidly increasing
mobilized manpower and war production, of
the flaming spirit of America's fighting forces
already manifested in engagements on land, sea,
and in the air are every day telling otrr hard-
tried people that with such an ally we cannot
fail
The Koyal Norwegian Navy is proud and
happv to call their own this ship, named after
our beloved leader. King Haakon \ ii. Those
who are going to take her into the thick of our
common battle tell me that their greatest ambi-
tion shall be to show themselves worthy of their
flag and of the trust and friendship of the Presi-
dent and the people of the United States.
ADDRESS BY THE FOKNIER AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN. SEPTEMBER 14
;Reies.5eC tu tte press S*jte=;:.e-r 15;
Mb. Chaibmax A2fD Gevtleacex : -
Yours is the first large group of fellow coun-
trymen that I have had the privilege and pleas-
ure of meeting face to face since returning from
Japan. For me it is therefore a thoroughly
memorable occasion. But the real inspiration of
this meeting springs from what you are, what
von have done, and what you are doing. You
symbolize the backbone of the civilian partici-
pation in the war effort of our country, and in
yotir contribution to that effort you have
achieved outstanding success. Permit me to ex-
press my sincere and hearty congratulations to
the workers and the management of the Reming-
ton Armg Company on your having won the
thanks of our Government and counirv sis ex-
'DeUvered by the Honorable Joseph C. Grew at the
BemingtOD Anns Companr. Bridgeport. Conn., and
broadcast bj the Xational Broadcasting Company.
pressed in the award of the five "E's" which you
receive today. Effort, efficiency, and effective-
ness. Whatever those "E's" may officially and
specifically stand for. those three words seem to
me accurately and appropriately to represent
your record and your achievement up to date.
There is still a long road, probably a very long
and difficult road, ahead. You have given con-
crete evidence that you can, and clear indication
that you will — to the end — meet the test.
Other speakers will have dealt with the statis-
tics of the expansion and production achieved by
vou in this time of war. I confine myself to the
simple statement that this well-merited honor
stands as a splendid example to our country and,
more than that, it stands as a ringing plea, a plea
that this great record of yours, this record of
strikeless effort, efficiency, and effectiveness, this
record of almost unexcelled expansion and pro-
gressive intensiveness in production be emulated
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from end to end of our embattled but still grop-
ing land.
Our still groping land. Groping for what ?
Well, I will try to tell vou of my impressions on
returning home after long and difficult years
abroad. From many talks with many different
elements of our people I sense the most earnest
desire of all to contribute, individually and col-
lectively, their mayimum potentialities of serv-
ice to our national effort toward winning this
war. But many of those with whom I have
talked seem to have no real comprehension of
what we are up against, no real comprehension
that we are not fighting distant enemies merely
to preserve our national "interests" but, in fact,
to preserve our national life — our existence as a
free and sovereign people. Make no mistake
about this. I know at least one of our enemies
intimately, the Japanese, and I know beyond
peradventure that the dearest wish and inten-
tion of that enemy is so to extend their victories
and conquests and power that ultimately they
will be in a position to subject us also to the
status of the people of the lands already con-
quered. That means just one thing. Our free-
dom, the freedom of our priceless American
heritage, disappears. Yes. that is their dearest
wish : to control not only their Oriental neigh-
bors but Occidental peoples, esjjecially those of
America. Megalomania — ^if you will — ^but it's
true. Hitler suffers from the same diseaa. and
it needs no doctor to diagnose the symptoms. "It
can't happen here." But. alas, it can. Pearl
Harbor couldn't happen. But it did. And all
the rest of it will happen if some of our coimtry-
men continue to grope — ^to grope blindfold for
the facts which are clear before them if they wUl
only remove the bandage from their eyes. Little
by little I hope to bring before my fellow coun-
trymen the salient facts concerning the widely
misunderstood effectiveness and power and the
all-out. do-or-die. fanatical spirit of the Japanese
military machine against which we are fighting
today. Unless that effectiveness and power and
spirit are correctly assessed by the American peo-
ple as a whole, our road to victory will be doubly
long and hard and bloody.
And now, another side of the picture. Many
have said to me that the American people are
ready but that our leaders must show us the way.
.Show the way ? If anyone feels that our leaders
have not pointed out the way, let him read
again and again the statements and declarations
of our President, of our Secretary of State and
others of our high officials, with the fullest sup-
port and cooperation of many other leaders of
public thought. Haven't our leaders month in
and month out given us our bearings, charted
our course, told us what lay ahead, what we now
are fighting for. and what we may expect if we
f aU in that fight ? Haven't they asked for our
maximum efforts in production, for our indi-
vidual and collective self-sacrifice of the non-
essentials of life, for hard thinking and resolute
action on our part, not in terms of our daily
convenience but of our daily contribution ?
Why waste invaluable time and energy in bick-
ering about details, about non-essentials ? Why
not let come to the fore and give full play to our
American initiative and resourcefulness and the
inherent toughness of earlier difficult days ? A
very great ntimber of our feUow countrymen are
imbued with the finest spirit of self-sacrifice and
determination to go aU out in their war effort.
They are wide-awake and functioning to their
full capacities. Others among our fellow coun-
trymen are similarly eager to serve but are not
yet fully awake to the realities of the situation.
They have failed to analyze the dangers which
confront us or to realize the full grimness and
potential desperate demands of this war which
we are waging actually to preserve our liberty —
waging to preserve the very principle of liberty.
Others among our fellow countrymen are quite
simply still asleep.
Let me merely say to you this. Since coming
to Washington I have seen at close hand, per-
sonally and intimately, the grim determination
and decisiveness of those leaders of ours. The
problems which they have to face are among the
greatest and most difficult in the history of our
Nation. But those problems, one by one. are
being faced and dealt with in that very spirit
of determination and decisiveness which fills me
with patriotic pride. I was in Washington in
1917. The war effort of our country then was
amateurish compared with our war effort now.
I have talked directlv with the officers of our
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joint Chiefs of Staff, with large groups of our
Army and Navy officers, with the production
management, with the members of our strategic
services, and with many others from the Presi-
dent down. Some of their problems seem almost
insuperable, but the spirit of their determination
to solve those problems is absolutely invincible,
and they are solving them, hour by hour and day
by day. If only our people, our people as a
whole, will realize the dangers which we are up
against, what we stand to lose by failure, what
we must and will gain by victory — if only our
people as a whole will get in and push to the
maximum of their several capacities !
Do you know what use the foreign propa-
ganda radio stations are making of this groping
of the American people? They constantly
broadcast our disunity, our domestic bickerings,
our strikes and political schisms. Every in-
stance of such disunity that appears in our press
is avidly seized upon and amplified and flaunted
throughout the enemy countries. They believe
or pretend to believe — those enemies of ours —
that we are an effete nation, reared in the lap
of personal comfort, vitiated by luxury, unable
to meet the supreme test of war.
You, the employers and managers and work-
ers of this company, are proving the utter fu-
tility and falsity of that propaganda. Your
record and accomplishments stand forth for all
to see. May your example inspire others from
end to end of our beloved land.
And now a woi-d about the Japanese, espe-
cially the Japanese workers. To you, I am
sure there is nothing unusual about free woi'k-
ers and free management assembling in a free
country. Benjamin Franklin once said that
we never miss the water until the well runs dry.
I have spent the last 10 years in a country where
the well of liberty has always been dry. A
meeting such as this in Tokyo or Osaka or
Nagoya would be unthinkable. Neither in those
cities nor anywhere else in Japan is the worker
more than an unresisting pawn of the militarists
who are driving his country to destruction.
Indeed, I can picture the worker of Japan
only in his working clothes, bearing upon his
back a huge Japanese character, the name of
his employer. Each man bears upon his back
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this rubber stamp, a symbol of his servitude, a
symbol of the fact that he is merely an im-
personal tool in the hands of those who rule
his country's destiny— a tool to be used indis-
criminately and without regard for his personal
and individual well-being.
The Japanese worker has nothing to say about
his wages, which before the war were barely
enough for his subsistence and still undoubtedly
are. He has nothing to say about his hours,
which are long and back-breaking. If he has
any union at all, it dare not lift its voice. It
has been driven underground by the brutal
methods of the "thought control" police. In
fact, there is almost nothing that he has any
say about, from the moment that he comes into
the world until the moment when, worn out by
unhealthful working conditions, long hours, and
poor diet, he takes his leave of it forever.
This is what it means to be a worker in Japan.
This, or far worse, is what it means to be a
worker in any country which falls before Japan's
armed forces.
Yet we must not be misled by the abject pov-
erty and regimentation of our enemies. The
conditions I have described would lead free
Americans to revolt. But Japan is a country
far different from our own in every conceivable
way. Under these conditions the Japanese
workers have docilely toiled to build a military
machine which has swept across eastern Asia
like a tidal wave and will sweep still farther
if allowed to do so.
The Jai^anese people have been accustomed to
regimentation since the very birth of their
nation. There are Japanese living today who
were born when their country was still a feudal
land, when every feudal lord held the power of
life and death over his so-called common people.
We in the West shook off feudalism many cen-
turies ago. In Japan it existed so recently that
it has left a vast heritage of almost prostrate
subservience to birth and authority.
The men who rule Japan today have taken
full advantage of the docility of the Japanese
people to create a formidable military and eco-
nomic machine. If a man will yield himself
to hypnotism, it is as easy to convince him that
lie is a roaring tiger as to make him believe
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he is a gentle lamb. The Japanese militarists
have hypnotized their fellow countrymen into
believing they are roaring tigers, and they will
continue to try to act like tigers until the black
spell has been broken.
These ruthless architects of aggi-ession have
carried out their plans with diabolical clever-
ness. Their campaign of propaganda has been
long and incessant. Even Japan's handicaps
have been used to strengthen her for war. The
low standard of living of the Japanese people,
for example, has been used to inure them to a
Spartan life. Today the Japanese soldier on
the fighting front, the Jajjanese sailor in his
cramped ship, and the Japanese worker in his
gloomy factory can alike live on a diet so meager
that any American on the same diet would soon
collapse. The traditional subservience to au-
thority has been used to lead the Japanese work-
ers to accept a degree of regimentation which
in some respects exceeds that of better known
Nazi Germany. And this regimented industrial
machine has been turned to one purpose: the
production of the tools of war. The very fail-
ure of Jaj^an's war against China has been used
to induce the Japanese people to accept placidly
severe measures of control and rationing — meas-
ures of such severity that without the psychol-
ogy of war they would surely lead to revolt.
Above all, the men who rule Japan have used
their efficient propaganda machine to instil in
every Japanese a fanatical devotion to his coun-
try. Even those who hate their nation's entry
into this present war have buried their personal
feelings. Even they have come to accept the
belief that the future of their country depends
upon the outcome. We would be deluding our-
selves if we believed that any personal sacri-
fices which the Japanese people might be called
upon to make would lead to any cracking of
their morale. Yamato Damashi, the spirit of
Japan, has been stronger during recent months
than ever before. The undeniable successes of
their Armies, sweeping across Malaya, Burma,
the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies,
and many of the islands of the southwest Pacific,
have given them tremendous confidence in their
ability to win. They know that they have a
long and difficult fight before them. They be-
lieve that by grim endurance they will grasp
victory.
This confidence is based not only on the suc-
cesses of their own forces but on false contempt
for the fighting ability of their enemies. The
Japanese are well aware of the technical achieve-
ments of the Western powers — so well aware,
indeed, that they have taken many of these
achievements and adapted them to their own
use. They are well aware of the high standard
of living of Western peoples. But they be-
lieve that this high standard has brought a
softness — even a degeneracy — to Western civili-
zation. They believe that we Americans and
our allies are too complacent, too well fed to be
willing to make the sacrifices necessary for
victory.
This is the real challenge to America — the
challenge of a people who have been hypnotized
into believing that democracy weakens those
who possess it, that a high standard of living
weakens those who enjoy it, that peace and the
love of peace weaken those who cherish them.
It may come as a shock to some of us to realize
how scornful of us are those with whom our
relations have been too often governed by a
careless sense of superiority. Too long have we
nurtured the illusion that the Japanese is an
insignificant person whose achievements are
poor imitations of our own achievements. The
Japanese is physically small, but he is sturdy.
We might say that he is half starved, but he is
Spartan. He is imitative, but he is also capable
of adapting himself easily and quickly to new
conditions and new weapons. He is subservient,
but his very subserviency is the expression of a
fanatical loyalty toward his country and his
Emperor. He is a clever and dangerous
enemy — one who will compel us to use all the
intelligence and all the strength of which we are
capable in order to bring about his defeat.
And as for us, what is our answer to this
cliallenge from across the Pacific? What is
our reply to these little islanders who believe
that we are weak and of divided mind in our
hour of peril ?
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I do not know that I have been back in the
United States long enough to have a final answer
to this question. But I do believe that I have
seen enough and talked to enough people to get
something of the feel of my native country in
this year of crisis. Perhaps the very fact that
I have been away from America for some time
may enable me to see somewhat more clearly
the changes which have taken place in the
transition from peace to war than if I had been
here to live through them from day to day.
No one rettirning to this country after a long
absence can fail to be impressed by the way our
great industrial capacity has been converted to
the production of munitions. No one can fail
to be impressed by the vast armies which are
being mustered around us and the great fleets
which are being hammered into shape. But we
have by no means neared the limits of achieve-
ment. WHiat we have done to date we have
accomplished through the comparatively easy,
first stages of transformation of our industrial
machinery and our vast store of manpower from
the purposes of peace to those of war. We are
like a football team running through its practice
plays against the scrubs. The players cany out
their assignments; but the punch, the deter-
mined plunge which brings victory in the big
game, is lacking. We must pull ourselves up
short. We must stop groping. Let us make
no mistake. This is the real thing, played for
keejjs. An easy-going transformation is not
enough. Our effort must be an extraordinary
one — one which exceeds anything that we have
undertaken heretofore. In winning this broad
continent which is our heritage, in preserving
it from attack within and without, the American
people in the past have performed the tasks of
giants. Today we face the greatest task in our
history.
A friend of mine recently wrote me: "You
will find this country sound in feeling, but still
unable to realize that we are involved in a
desperate war."
I understand very well how difficult it is for
the people of this country, many thousands of
miles from the fronts where the actual fighting
is taking place, to realize fully just what this
war means. I myself sometimes find it difficult
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to believe that but a few short weeks ago I was,
for all practical purposes, a prisoner in a coun-
try ruled by fanatics determined to destroy the
United States and all that she stands for. But
we must not allow this remoteness from the
battle front to lull us into a sense of false secu-
rity. This is war to the finish. The Japanese
understand this — peasants as well as admirals
and generals. They have gambled everything
on their belief that we are too soft, too divided
among ourselves, to stand before the fury of
their attack — indeed a furious attack. This war
was bred by fanatical militarism. That fanati-
cism is being met now by the heroism and the
righteous fury of our own air forces, by daunt-
less frontal attack by our marines, by the ships,
the guns, and the heroic men of our Navies and
our Armies. I need not recount for you how
our men on the firing lines face to face with the
enemy, and our women behind those lines — with
their spirit, determination, effectiveness, and
sacrifice — are beating back the enemy's ambi-
tious will to conquer. They at the fighting
fronts can handle anything the Japanese can
send against them if, and it is an important
"if", each and every one of us — you and I —
gives them his utmost support. The ruthless
will which is driving the Japanese Nation
toward conquest knows neither gentleness nor
mercy. It is utterly ruthless, utterly cruel, and
utterly blind to any of the values which make
up our civilization. The only way to stop that
will is to destroy it.
It is up to each one of us, to every American,
to see the picture as a whole, to realize that we
are fighting for our individual and national
existence and for everything that each one of us
holds dear, to gain from that realization in-
spiration, zeal, courage, and determination to
harness all our energies into a tremendous effort,
an epochal effort that will make our victory sure.
Each individual must pour out everything
which he has to accomplish his individual task
at hand and to make the most of every oppor-
tunity for service. Each and every one of us
must realize that through his individual and col-
lective efforts new and broader and more effec-
tive avenues of service will steadily be opened
up, and thus each and all of us will gain the
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opportunity to contribute in ever-increasing
measure to getting the job done with maximum
speed and with maximum effectiveness.
This is our task — the task of our own great
country and of our Allies of the United Nations.
Let us stop groping. It is a task in which you,
employers and workers of America, have an im-
mense part, a vital part to play. Play it well.
If you fail — please mark my words — you pass
into slavery and all America passes into slavery
witli you. But you will not fail ; we will not
fail, because we are free men living in a free
country, able and determined that we, our coun- .
try, shall remain free, that our homes, our tra-
ditions, our civilization, our principles, our
standards, our humanity shall remain free, and
that henceforth we shall also be and shall re-
main secure.
ADDRESS BY THE FORMER AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN, SEPTEMBER 18
[Released to the press September 18]
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen : ^
The privilege of attending this important
gathering is highly appreciated, and I wish at
once to express my hearty thanks for the wel-
come that you have so kindly and generously ac-
corded me. If the fighting spirit of our Nation
is typified by the spirit of this great meeting in
your progressive city of Syracuse, we need not
fear for the eventual outcome of the war.
In November 1939, at a time when the Japa-
nese Army was floundering unsuccessfully in
China, I wrote in my diary :
"To await the hoped-for discrediting in Japan
of the Japanese Army and the Japanese military
system is to await the millenium. The Japanese
Army is no protuberance like the tail of a dog,
which might be cut off to prevent the tail from
wagging the dog. It is inextricably bound up
with the fabric of the entire nation. Certainly
there are plenty of Japanese who dislike the
Army's methods; there is plenty of restiveness
at the wholesale impressment of young men to
fight in China, at the death and crippling of
many, and at the restrictions and handicaps in
everyday life entailed by the expenses of the
China campaign. But that the Army can be
discredited in the eyes of the people to a degree
where its power and prestige will become so
effectively undermined as to deprive it of con-
trol, or at least of its preponderant influence in
shaping national policy, is an hypothesis which
I believe no one conversant with Japan and the
Japanese would for a moment entertain.
' Delivered by the Honorable Joseph C. Grew at a
war-rally luncheon at the Hotel Syracuse, Syracuse,
N. Y., and broadcast over the red network of the
National Broadcasting Company.
484597—42 2
Should a coup d^etat occur in Japan through
social upheaval, there is little doubt that it
would lead immediately to a ruthless military
dictatorship."
That entry in my diary was almost three years
ago. A good deal of water has run under the
mill since then, but those comments are just as
true today as they were then — except in one
fundamental respect. I then wrote that the
Japanese Army was inextricably bound up with
the life of the people, and when I wrote of the
Army I alluded to the whole great military ma-
chine which includes the Navy too. So it is
today. From every village and farm and fac-
tory and home, sons and brothers and fellow
workers have been taken for military or naval
service throughout the nation. That whole ma-
chine is closely integrated with every phase of
the national life. But I also wrote at that time
that that military machine could not be dis-
credited in the eyes of the people. Today I
amend that statement. The Japanese military
machine can and will be discredited in the eyes
of the Japanese people, and we, the United States
of America, will bring that about.
Two questions. First, why? Answer: be-
cause until it is so discredited, permanent peace
never can and never will be restored in the Pa-
cific area. Second, how ? Answer : by utter and
complete defeat by the armed forces of the
United States of America and of the other
United Nations. Only when that Japanese mili-
tary machine is rendered physically impotent,
physically incapable of carrying on its far-flung
campaign of crushing and conquering and en-
slaving— yes, literally enslaving — those who fall
beneath the wheels of its ruthless and utterly
pitiless car of juggernaut, only then will the
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Japanese people as a whole come to the realiza-
tion that crime does not pay, that they have been
forced to follow false gods, and that the ways of
j^eace are in all respects preferable to the ways
of war. And when that time comes — as it as-
suredly will come in due course— many a Japa-
nese, many a patriotic and loyal Japanese, loyal
to his Emperor, loyal to the spirits of his ances-
tors, and loyal to his nation, j'et who did not
want this war, wlio had nothing whatever to do
with the bringing on of this war, will sigh with
profoundest relief. And this I say with 10 long
years of intimate knowledge and experience of
Japan and all her works.
Now how is that defeat to be brought about?
Our strategists and tacticians will take care of
that. As a layman in military and naval mat-
ters, I should say that two main courses will
have to be followed simultaneously. First, the
gradual but progressive dislodgement of the
Japanese forces from the bases and areas that
they have temporarily occupied. You know
from the published reports what our marines,
our sailors, our soldiers, our ships, and our
planes are doing in the South Seas today. They
have a tough job ahead, but they themselves are
made of iron. They will not fail. Second, the
gradual but progressive destruction of the Japa-
nese Navy, merchant marine, and air force —
])roducing an attrition which must finally so
reduce and weaken their combatant power and
their attenuated lines of supply that the home-
lajid will be isolated from every area which they
have occupied. This will not be the end, but it
will be the beginning of the end. Let us leave
tlip roup dc grace to our tacticians. They will
not fail.
And how about the rest of us? Shall we fail?
Shall we fail so to integrate our war effort into
the life of the Nation that our men and boys,
valiantly fighting overseas against that all-
powerful and equally valiant enemy, shall be
depri\ed of a single ship or plane or gun or
shell which might have reached them but did
not reach them because in some respects our
efforts at home had been geared to our creditable
but not our maximum capacity? Aye, there's
the rub. To attain our maximum capacity — our
maximum collective capacity to be attained only
if and when every one of us, hour by hour and
day by day, exerts his maximum individual
capacity.
Burns once wrote : "And if I seek oblivion of
a day, so shorten I the stature of my soul." Let
us readjust those lines : "And if I seek oblivion
of a day, so lengthen I the travail of my land."
Can there be any man or woman in our great
embattled Nation who seeks even a day's oblivion
when his country is in dire peril, as it surely is
today ?
The other day a friend, an intelligent Ameri-
can, said to me : "Of course there must be ups
and downs in this war; we can't expect victories
every day. But it's merely a question of time
before Hitler will go down to defeat before the
steadily growing power of the combined air and
naval and militiarj-* forces of the United
Nations — and then we'll mop up the Japs."
Mark well those words, please : "And then we'll
mop up the Japs."
My friends, let's get down to brass tacks. I
know Germany ; I lived there for nearly 10 years.
I came out on the last train with my chief, Am-
bassador Gerard, when in 1917 we broke rela-
tions with Germany and shortly afterwards
were forced to declare war on that aggressor. I
know the Germans well : truculent and bullying
and domineering when on the crest of the wave;
demoralized in defeat. The Germans cracked
in 1918. I have steadfastly believed and I be-
lieve today that when the tide of battle turns
against them, as it assuredly will turn, they will
crack again.
I know Japan; I lived there for 10 years. I
know the Japanese intimately. The Japanese
will not crack. They will not crack morally or
psycliolugically or economically, even when
eventual defeat stares them in the face. They
will pull in their belts another notch, reduce
their rations from a bowl to a half-bowl of rice,
and fight to the bitter end. Only by utter
physical destruction or utter exhaustion of their
men and materials can they be defeated. That
is the difference between the Germans and the
Japanese. That is what we are up against in
fighting Japan.
That gives food for thought, doesn't it ? You
who have never lived in Japan can have no con-
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ceptioii of tlie overweening confidence of the
Japanese Army and Navy, their overweening
ambition, and their determination to conquer
and subjugate portions of the Occident just as
tliey ah'eady have temporarily possessed them-
selves of lai-ge sections of the Orient. You real-
ize that the Japanese are already in the Aleutian
Islands, don't you ? Not far from Alaska. Not
so far from other parts of our country. Our
own armed forces are dealing with that situa-
tion. I mention it merely as a concrete indica-
tion of what the armed forces of Japan hope to
do and what they intend to do — and what they
will do if they can : first to bomb impoitant
American centers and then, eventually, invade
America.
And let us not allow ourselves to be deluded
into thinking that these hopes are merely pipe
dreams, impo.ssible of fulfilment. The Japanese
may seem to us fanatics and, at times, barbar-
ians. But in building their Army they have
been extremely practical and level-headed,
forging a military nation which today must be
recognized as one of the most formidable in the
world.
Let me tell you a little stoiy which throws
light upon the spirit which animates these grim
warriors. Last year when our country and
Japan were .still at peace I received from the
Chinese Government the name of a Japanese
who had been taken prisoner in China and who
wished his family at home in Japan to know
that he was alive and well. I communicated
the information to the Government in Tokyo
and received, in due course, the official reply.
It was brief and to the point. The Japanese
Government was not interested in receiving such
information. So far as they, the Government,
were concerned, and also so far as his own fam-
ily was concerned, that man was officially dead.
Were he to be recognized as a prisoner of war,
shame would be brought upon not only his own
family but his government and his nation.
"Victory or death" is no mere slogan for these
soldiers. It is a plain, matter-of-fact descrip-
tion of the military policy which controls their
forces from the highest generals to the newest
recruit. The man who allows himself to be
captured has disgraced himself and his country.
Let us take a somewhat more intimate and
extensive look at this Army which today is hop-
ing to bivouac on the Wliite House lawn. One
of the best and most accurate assessments of that .
Army as it exists today was prepared by our
assistant military attache in Tokyo, Lieutenant
Colonel C. Stanton Babcock, and I believe that
no better conception of that Army can be con-
veyed to you than by my presenting, sometimes
A'erbatim, some of the facts and comments set
forth in that report.
The Japanese Army has one great advantage
over her enemies in the Far East : the advan-
tage of five years of hard fighting in the China
War. They have paid dearly for it. Estimates
of their casualties run as high as a million men.
But for this grim price in blood they obtained a
proving gi-ound where they could build a tough,
veteran army trained in that greatest of all mili-
tary schools, war itself.
But the Japanese were not content witli this.
They gave their men further training in special
areas where the terrain and climatic conditions
approximate those in the regions where thej'
were to fight. The units and commanders for
the various sectors were selected months in ad-
vance and put to work. The Malayan Army
trained in Haman and Indochina, the Philip-
pine force in Formosa, and both units practiced
landing operations during the late summer and
fall of 1941 along the south China coast. Even
the divisions chosen to attack Hong Kong were
given rigorous training in night fighting and
in storming pillboxes in the hills near Canton.
So realistic were these maneuvers that the troops
are reported to have sutfered "a number of
casualties".
The Japanese High Command was able to
make these careful preparations because of years
of study of the areas where they expected to
wage future campaigns. This study was based
on a first-class espionage system. Japanese com-
mentators have not even attempted to hide the
fact that the High Command was fully informed
for a year before the war of the strength, dis-
positions, and likely plans of their potential en-
emies. A good deal of this information is said
to have been obtained by "observing" maneuvers
in the Philippines and in Malaya. We can seri-
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ously question ■whether much of this informa-
tion was gathered by official observers. The
eyes of the High Command were probably re-
serve officers, disguised as humble members of
the Japanese community scattered throughout
the world.
In making use of this highly valuable infor-
mation the various branches of the Japanese
armed forces — land, sea, and air — worked to-
gether in complete unity. This was the more
surprising, in as mucli as the great political ac-
tivity of both ai-med services in Tokyo had led
to a considerable amount of suspicion and jeal-
ousy on the home front. Apparently none of it
carried over to the fighting front, for Japanese
Army-Navy teamwork left nothing to be de-
sired. "Task forces" organized during the sum-
mer of 1941 trained and worked together con-
tinuously. Details of command, supply, and
other matters which might have given rise to
controversy were carefully worked out in ad-
vance and clearly understood by all concerned.
In developing these task forces gi-eat impor-
tance was laid upon the attainment of air supe-
riority. Admitting frankly their enemies'
greater potential air power, the Japanese never-
theless believed that they could seize, and main-
tain for a long time, command of the air in east
Asia. Once again events proved them right.
Air-force units, both of the Army and of the
Navy, concentrated their strength against en-
emy air fields, and not imtil the opposing air
strength was thoroughly crushed was any con-
siderable part of the available Japanese forces
diverted to other missions.
The use of dive and light bombers as a kind
of long-range artillery was closely patterned on
German tactics, as the Japanese themselves ad-
mit. This flying artillery was especially eflPec-
tive in the early stages of the Malayan cam-
paign, where the terrain made observation diffi-
cult and the emplacement of large numbers of
ground batteries was virtually impossible.
The Japanese have borrowed more from the
Germans than their tactics in the use of dive and
light bombers. Like the Nazi High Command,
they refuse to achnit tliat there are any natural
obstacles which their forces cannot cross. How
often have the German Armies shown how the
Allied commanders had made the mistaken as-
sumption that terrain which is merely difficult
is impassable! In their lightning campaigns
of last winter the Japanese made the same point
over and over again. Indeed, the Japanese
themselves have said that their tactics have fre-
quently been based on the principle of attacking
through a particular area in the knowledge that
their enemies have been lulled into a false sense
of security and complacency by the very assump-
tion of its impassability. And the Japanese
emphasize the disastrous effect on the defenders'
morale once a so-called impregnable area has
been pierced.
But above all, according to both the Japanese
themselves and outside observers, the most im-
portant factor contributing to Japanese vic-
tories is the spirit which permeates all the armed
forces of the Empire. This spirit, recognized
by competent military men as the most vital
intangible factor in achieving victory, has been
nourished and joerpetuated since the foundation
of the modern Japanese Army. The High Com-
mand have counted heavily on the advantages
that this would give Japan over her less aggres-
sive enemies. They were well aware of the psy-
chological effect produced on the British, the
Dutch, and the Americans by reliance on de-
fense. They put great store in the flabbiness
produced in the white man after nearly a cen-
tury of easy and luxurious life in the Far East.
They attached great importance to the disunity
in tlie United States over the war issue and
counted on an appreciable interval before an
aroused nation could find itself and develop a
figlitiug spirit of its own. By that time, they
still feel, Japan will be in complete control of
all east Asia.
The Japanese themselves have developed a
tremendous fighting spirit in their armed serv-
ices and people alike. Indeed, the Japanese
armed services and the Japanese Nation have
become so closely identified that it is difficult to
tell wliere one stops and the other begins. Every
Japanese male, of course, must perform military
service under a system of universal conscrip-
tion. Thus, in every family the father or son or
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brother has served or is serving in the Army or
Navy. Every house in Japan, down to the low-
liest hovel, proudly flies the Japanese flag at its
front door when one of its men is in military
service.
The people of Japan are wholly united in
their support of their armed forces and of this
war simply because it is declared to be the will
of the Emperor. To oppose the will of the
Throne, the will of the Son of Heaven, is un-
thinkable in Jaj^an. Disloyalty to the Em-
peror, too, would shame their own ancestors;
and ancestor worship, the patriotic faith called
Shintoism, is the fundamental faith of the
entire country.
Not, I hasten to add, that the Japanese Gov-
ernment has ever succeeded in obtaining univer-
sal conformity among its subjects. Even among
the Japanese there are a few bold spirits who
are unwilling to accept dictation from above and
who insist on thinking for themselves. There
could be no attitude more dangerous to an au-
tocracy, and all such thoughts are labeled by the
Japanese police as "dangerous thoughts". Many
a Japanese finds himself in a solitary prison
cell, undergoing long months of intensive inves-
tigation, on the basis of a mere indiscreet word
uttered in the hearing of some stranger or even
friend.
We may well ask ourselves how so many of
our people came to pay so little attention to this
formidable military machine, a machine which
dominated the lives of the Japanese people long
before Pearl Harbor. Partly, of course, we can
lay it to our remoteness as a nation from the
place where this machine was in action. This
remoteness served not only to keep us from ob-
taining first-hand impressions of the activities
of the Japanese Army but also to lull us into a
false sense of security. Many believed that be-
cause the Pacific was between us and Japan we
were safe. That thought was relentlessly ham-
mered home here in America by the head-in-
the-sand school of political leaders. I may add
that it was with considerable joy that the
leaders of Japan observed what I am sure was
the unintentional cooperation of the American
isolationists in Japan's plans to fool us. Often
have I seen the public speeches of those isola-
tionists flaunted under big headlines in the Jap-
anese press.
Nevertheless, the Japanese ability in decep-
tion and concealment played a very considerable
part in keeping our j)eople ignorant of the true
meaning of what was going on in eastern Asia.
Many, for example, took the apparent failure of
the Japanese Army to drive to victory in the
four years of the China War as evidence of the
weakness and inefficiency of the Japanese mili-
tary forces. It has become more and more ap-
parent since Pearl Harbor that, however much
we hoped for peace in Asia, the Japanese them-
selves throughout the China War were husband-
ing their resources for the greater struggle
which they felt lay beyond. In this connection,
tlie Japanese budget figures released to the press
are extremely interesting. They indicate that
only 40 percent of the appropriation voted to
the defense forces was expended for the conduct
of the so-called China Incident. Sixty per-
cent— nearly two thirds of the total appropria-
tion— was used to prepare the services and the
industrial plants for the greater emergency yet
to come. Similarly, of the materials and weap-
ons furnished the services, only one fifth was
sent to China — the rest being used to expand
and modernize the armies and fleets which were
to be called upon when the super-war really
broke.
Oversimplified and inconclusive though these
figures are, the Japanese themselves neverthe-
less use them to suppoi't their promise that the
war in China has left Japan stronger rather
than weaker and in a better position than ever
before to strike at her enemies.
Nevertheless, despite its strength Japan's new
empire should certainly not be considered in-
vulnerable. It has definite weaknesses which,
if we take full advantage of them, will lead ulti-
mately to the collapse of her whole position.
Japan, despite an unparalleled expansion
over an area of many thousands of square miles
in the campaigns of the past winter, has not
succeeded in removing strong Allied positions
on the flanks of her defensive chain. It is, of
course, an axiom of conquest that each time you
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advance you are creating a future need for a
further advance to protect your new position.
Nevertheless, Japan hoped that by lier concerted
campaigns she could drive her enemies back to
such a distance that she would be able to halt
her forces on natural defensive lines.
This she has not been able to do. The United
Nations still hold bases on and from which it is
possible for them to organize and launch strik-
ing forces to attack the Japanese positions, both
new and old. These will be used amply and
effectively as the war progresses.
And finally, it must be considered a weakness
of the Japanese defensive ring that communica-
tions and transport must be carried on very
largely by water. As we have seen only too
clearly here at home, sea-borne communications
are extremely vulnerable to attack. At worstr
they may be cut; at best they compel the de-
fensive country to divert much of her naval
strengtii to convoy and anti-submarine patrol.
Japan is not a country which can replace her
shipping losses easily, and it may well turn out
that the steady attrition of her shipping, both
mercantile and naval, may play a considerable
part in her ultimate defeat.
But let me emj^hasize once again that these
weaknesses will certainly not of themselves
cause Japan to be defeated. They must be ex-
ploited— taken advantage of — by determined
aggressive action by the United Nations. And
that in turn can come about only if our Govern-
ment has the determined and aggi-essive support
of every one of us here at home. For in the
ultimate analysis victory or defeat does not rest
in tlie hands of fighting men thousands of miles
away. It does not rest with the generals and
the admirals. It does not depend upon the
Government in Washington. Victory depends
upon us who are gathered here — ourselves and
our millions of fellow countrymen who make
up the American people.
The strength of the Japanese people lies in
their fanatical obedience to authority. The
great strength of the American people lies in
their ability to think and act for themselves
without waiting for orders from above. Our
fathers tamed a continent without waiting for
someone to tell them how to do it. It took no
directive from the High Command to call the
Minute Men from their plows to battle. We
ourselves can do no less. Let us not wait for
our Government to do all our thinking for us.
Our leaders in Washington already bear an im-
mense burden. Let us not add to it by expecting
them to lead us by the hand every step of the
road to victory.
Let us remember one thing: it is our war.
NEGOTIATIONS FOR RELIEF TO AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR HELD BY JAPAN
[Released to the press September 18]
Immediately following the Japanese occupa-
tion of the Philippine Islands, efforts were made
by the American Red Cross to locate a neutral
ship of sufficient cargo capacity and cruising
radius for the carriage of prisoner-of-war sup-
plies to the Far East, including the Philippine
Islands.
In the spring a suitable vessel was located, the
Swedish ship Vasaland, then at Gothenburg.
Efforts made by the American Red Cross
through the International Red Cross to secure
the assent of the German authorities to the
departure of this ship from the Baltic proved
fruitless, following which the Kanangoora, a
Swedish vessel now on the Pacific coast, was
chartered with the expectation that it could be
used for this purpose.
Supplementing the repeated efforts of the
American Red Cross, made through the inter-
mediary of the International Red Cross, to
obtain from the Japanese Government a guar-
anty of safe conduct for this ship to carry relief
supplies for American prisoners of war and
civilian internees in Japanese custody, messages
dated July 30, August 29, and September 18,
1942, respectively, were sent by the Secretary of
State to the Japanese Government through the
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Swiss Government representing American inter-
ests in Japan. The message dated August 29
was printed in the BuUetin of September 5,
1942, page 741. Tlie texts of the other messages
read as follows :
"July 30, 1942.
"Please request that Swiss Minister Tokyo
he instructed to press for consent of Japanese
Government to voyage from San Francisco to
Manila via Kobe, Shanghai and Hong Kong of
Swedish motorship Kanangoor-a which is being
chartered by American Red Cross and operated
by the International Red Cross to carry supplies
for prisoners of war and civilian internees in the
Far East. Please expedite report."
"September 18, 1942.
"The Government of the United States has
noted the Japanese Government's statement that
it has never refused and will not refuse in the
future to accept and to deliver parcels contain-
ing foodstuffs and clothing as provided for
under Article 37 of the Geneva Prisoners of
War Convention and is gratified to have official
confirmation that supplies sent by the American
Red Cross on the exchange ships will be distrib-
uted to American prisoners of war and civilian
internees in Japan, in the Philippines, and in
other areas under Japanese occupation.
"The Government of the United States also
has noted the statement of the Japanese Gov-
ernment that it must maintain for the moment
its refusal to allow, for strategic reasons, any
vessel to cross the western Pacific and that the
Japanese Government has no intention of send-
ing to LoureiiQO Marques Japanese ships other
than the exchange vessels.
"The Government of the United States desires,
however, to point out that the supplies already
sent to the Philippine Islands are insufficient in
quantity adequately to satisfy the continuing
needs of American prisoners of war and civilian
internees detained by the Japanese authorities
there. Furthermore, sufficient cargo space is
not available on the exchange vessels to permit
the shipment of sufficient supplementai-y sup-
plies to serve the continuing needs of American
nationals detained by the Japanese authorities
in the Philippine Islands and in other areas
under Japanese occupation.
"The Government of the United States, there-
fore, proposes again that the Japanese Govern-
ment consent to the appointment of a neutral
International Red Cross Committee delegate in
the Philippine Islands to whom funds might be
sent from the United States to be used in the
purchase of local produce for distribution
among American nationals in Japanese custody
there. This Government confidently expects
that as soon as the strategic reasons which the
Japanese Government states are at present in-
fluencing it in refusing to permit neutral vessels
to cross the western Pacific are no longer con-
trolling, the Japanese Government will give safe
conduct for the shipment of supplementary sup-
plies fi'om this country. Until that time, how-
ever, it is only by opening a means whereby
funds may be provided to and used by a neutral
Red Cross representative in the Philippine Is-
lands that American nationals in Japanese cus-
tody in the Philippines may be furnished on a
continuing basis the supplementary supplies
which prisoners of war are entitled to receive
under the Convention, which both Governments
have agreed reciprocally to apply and to extend
to civilian internees. In this connection, this
Government desires to point out that the dietary
habits of Americans are different from those of
the Japanese people and that this Government
is accordingly anxious to supplement the basic
Japanese I'ations by supplies of a type more
characteristic of the usual American diet.
"The attention of the Japanese Government is
drawn to the fact that International Red Cross
Committee delegates are permitted to function
freely in the continental United States and the
Territory of Hawaii in the distribution of relief
among persons of Japanese nationality detained
in the United States and Hawaii.
"The Govermiient of the United States desires
to know urgently whether or not the Japanese
Government will henceforth grant full reciproc-
ity in these respects."
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
REPORTED PLANS FOR CONSCRIPTION
OF FRENCH LABOR FOR USE IN GER-
MANY
A correspondent at the press conference of
the Secretary of State on September 15 asked
the Secretary whether he had any comment on
the policy of the Vichy Government to con-
script labor for possible use in Germany. In
reply the Secretary said:
"Naturally this Government has been observ-
ing with special interest the recent reports about
plans of the French Government at Vichy to
send many thousands of French laborers into
Germany for the purpose of furnishing labor
to the German Government. This action, if car-
ried out, would be of such aid to one of our
enemies as to be wholly inconsistent with
France's obligations under international law.
The Govei-nment here is naturally observing
closely this more recent announcement about
the conscription of French labor, with a view to
seeing whether it is part of the plan oi' purpose
of the original undertaking which seems to have
failed, according to reports, of getting great
numbers of French laborers into Germany.
This Govenmient is accordingly observing, as I
say, the developments with the same special in-
terest as the first reports to which I have
referred.
"I think today too is the deadline as it is
called in relation to another policy which itself
is astonishing and that relates to measures taken
during recent weeks by the same governmental
authorities against a large number of unfortu-
nate people who sought to obtain refuge in
France in accordance with its traditional hos-
pitality. These policies include the delivery of
these unhappy people to enemies who have an-
nounced and in considerable measure executed
their intention to enslave, maltreat, and eventu-
ally exterminate them under conditions of the
most extreme cruelty. The details of the meas-
ures taken are so revolting and so fiendish in
their nature that they defy adequate descrip-
tion."
ATTEMPT TO CONSCRIPT CITIZENS OF
LUXEMBOURG FOR THE GERMAN
ARMY
[Released to the press September 13]
The Secretary of State, having been informed
by the Minister of Luxembourg that Hitler is
attempting to incorporate the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg into the Reich and to impose con-
scription into the German Army of the people
of the Grand Duchy, an action which has
brought about a general strike in Luxembourg,
has sent the following note to Minister Hugues
Le Gallais:
"Sir:
''The American people have followed with
deep concern the attempt of the German Reich
not only to force servitude upon the proud peo-
ple of Luxembourg but in this, the latest effort,
to compel the youth of that country to serve in
the German armed forces. The answer of the
people of Luxembourg to this was a general
strike. German force and cruelty may crush
this strike, but it can never crush the indomita-
ble spirit of the people of Luxembourg. Wliat-
ever badge of servitude Hitler may attempt to
force upon the youth of that country, the Amer-
ican people are confident their spirit will always
remain that of free men striving for their coun-
try's independence.
"Accept [etc.] Cordell Hull"
APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL ASSISTANT
IN LONDON IN CHARGE OF ECONOMIC-
WARFARE ACTIVITIES
[Released to the press September 14]
Mr. Winfield Riefler, of the Board of Eco-
nomic Warfare, has been appointed Special As-
sistant to the American Ambassador in London,
with tlie rank of Minister, and has arrived in
London.
Mr. Riefler will supervise the activities of the
Economic Warfare Division of the Embassy,
the channel for communication between the
Department of State, the Board of Economic
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771
Warfare, and other United States Government
agencies (except the armed forces) and the
Britisli Ministry of Economic Warfare.
Mr. Riefler spent several months in London
earlier this year as a special representative of
tlie Board of Economic Warfare, attached to the
staff of the American Embassy. He has re-
turned to London to assume the duties of his
new assignment which, among others, will be to
analyze, report on, and maintain representation
on committees concerned with economic-warfare
activities in which the United States and Great
Britain are jointly engaged.
American Republics
ANNIVERSARIES OF INDEPENDENCE
BRAZIL
[Released to the press September 16]
The following telegram has been received by
the Secretary of State from the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Brazil in reply to the for-
mer's telegram upon the occasion of the anni-
versary of the independence of Brazil : '
"September 14, 1942.
"At this time when the Brazilian people,
together with the people of the American States
and those of the other free and civilized nations,
is fighting against aggression in defense of the
ideals of justice and freedom, it was a special
pleasure to me to receive the congratulations
which Your Excellency was so good as to send
to my Government and to me personally on the
occasion of the anniversary of Brazil's inde-
pendence. Thanking you once more for your
demonstration of solidarity, I beg you to accept
the wishes which I express for Your Excellency's
(personal happiness.
OswALDO Aranha"
' Bulletin of September 12, 1942, p. 752.
CHILE
[Released to the press September 18]
The following telegram was sent by the Presi-
dent of the United States to His Excellency
Juan Antonio Rios, President of the Republic
of Chile, upon the occasion of the anniversary
of the declaration of independence of Chile :
"September 18, 1942.
"Upon this anniversary of the declaration of
the independence of Chile it gives me pleasure
to send to Your Excellency my most cordial
greetings and sincere wishes for the progress
and prosperity of your great country. The
people of the United States share with the people
of Chile and with the other free peoples of the
world a common responsibility to uphold the
principles of democracy and those individual
fieedoms which are the essence of a progressive
civilization.
"I look forward with pleasure to Your Excel-
lency's approaching visit and feel confident that
it will serve to strengthen still further the ties
of friendship already uniting our countries.
"Accept [etc.] Franklin D Roosevelt"
COSTA RICA
[Released to the press September 16]
The text of a telegram from the President of
the United States to His Excellency Dr. Don
Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia, President of
the Republic of Costa Rica, upon the occasion
of the anniversary of the independence of Costa
Rica, follows:
"September 15, 1942.
"In the year that has passed since the last
celebration of this memorable day, our two
countries have taken up arms to uphold with
other free countries in this hemisphere, and
tlirougliout the world, the sacred principles
and the priceless human heritage which our
two peoples are proud to shaie. In a spirit of
more than usual solemnity I send to you and
to the Costa Rican people my warm greetings
and good wishes and those of the people of the
772
United States on this anniversary of the
independence of Costa Eica.
"The United States has noted with admira-
tion the vigor with which Costa Rica has an-
swered the cliallenge of aggression and contrib-
uted to the struggle which can only end in our
common victory.
"With most cordial personal remembrances
and good wishes for your health and prosperity.
Franklin D Roosevelt"
EL SALVADOR
[Released to the press September 16]
The text of a telegram from the President of
the United States to His Excellency General
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez, President of
the Republic of El Salvador, upon the occasion
of the anniversary of the independence of El
Salvador, follows:
"September 15. 1942.
"On the anniversary of the independence of
El Salvador, I am glad to extend to you and
your people my warmest gi-eetings and felicita-
tions.
"Today, our two countries together with
other free nations throughout the world are
allied in the cause of freedom, which has been
everywhere challenged by barbarous enemies
who seek to destroy it. On this day of Salva-
doran independence, I assure you that the signifi-
cant contribution of your government and of
the people of El Salvador toward this great
cause will hasten the day, when, through our
united efforts, we shall achieve the final victory
and restore to their rightful place those prin-
ciples for which we are fighting.
"I take [etc.] Franklin D Roosevelt"
GUATEMALA
[Released to the press September 16]
The text of a telegram from the President of
the United States to His Excellency General
Jorge Ubico, President of the Republic of
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETEN
Guatemala, upon the occasion of the anniver-
sary of the independence of Guatemala, follows:
"September 15, 1942.
"On the occasion of the 121st anniversary of
the independence of Guatemala, I am especially
happy to send to you and to the people of Guate-
mala heartiest congratulations and best wishes
for myself and for the people of the United
States. Guatemala and the United States, to-
gether with the free nations of the whole world,
are united in a bitter struggle against barbarous
enemies seeking to destroy the very freedoms
which we celebrate with you today. We are
confident of victory, since truth is invincible.
"The spirit and ideals which motivated the
Guatemalan people to assert their independence
more than a century ago, find new expression ill
the notable contributions of Guatemala to the
common war effort of the United Nations.
"Ideals to which we reconsecrate ourselves on
these national holidays are the surest guarantee
of our conmion triumph.
"I take [etc.] Frankon D Roosevelt"
HONDURAS
[Released to the press September 16]
The text of a telegram from the President of
the United States to His Excellency General
Tiburcio Carias Andino, President of the Re-
public of Honduras, upon the occasion of the
anniversary of the independence of Honduras,
follows :
"September 15, 1942.
"On this memorable anniversary, I am glad to
send to you, and to the Honduran people, my
cordial greetings and good wishes and those of
the people of the United States.
"The celebration of the day of the independ-
ence of Honduras exalts principles and ideals
held in common by our two countries. In their
defense they have now joined with other free
countries in the American hemisphere and
throughout the world.
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773
"In the noble spirit of this day, Honduras is
contributing valiantly to the steadily growing
answer that free peoples must make and ai'e
making to the brutal challenge of aggression.
Animated by this spirit, we shall go forward to
victory.
"I take [etc.] Franklin D Roosevelt"
NICARAGUA
[Released to the press September 16]
Tlie text of a telegram from the President of
the United States to His Excellency General
Anastasio Somoza, President of the Republic of
Nicaragua upon the occasion of tlie anniversary
of the independence of Nicaragua, follows:
"September 15, 1942.
"On this anniversary of the independence of
Nicaragua our two countries are joined with
other free countries in this hemisphere, and
throughout the world, in armed resistance to a
mighty attempt to stamp out the very spirit
that animates the celebration of such a day.
With a solemn sense of the significance of this
anniversary, and with a deep sentiment of
friendship, I send to you and to the Nicaraguan
people my warm greetings and felicitations and
those of the people of the United States.
"Under the inspiration of the ideals exalted
by this celebration, Nicaragua has made vigor-
ous reply to the challenge of aggression. I am
confident that, under the same noble inspiration,
our countries will press on to final victory.
"I take fete] Franklin D Roosevelt"
RUBBER AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA
[Released to the press September 14]
The signing of a rubber agreement with Pan-
ama was announced on September 14 by the De-
partment of State, the Rubber Reserve Com-
pany, and the Board of Economic Warfare.
Under the terms of the agi-eement the Rubber
Reserve Company will purchase, until Decem-
ber 31, 1946, all rubber produced in Panama
which is not required for essential domestic
needs.
DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT TERRA
OF URUGUAY
[Released to the press September 10]
The Secretary of State, when asked for com-
ment regarding the death of the ex-President
of Uruguay, Dr. Gabriel Terra ( 1931-38) , which
occurred on September 15, said :
"He was a great and good man. He had a
passion for serving the masses of the people.
He did serve them faithfully and well. His
record of efficient service will long stand out in
the history of his country."
The Far East
ANNIVERSARY OF THE MUKDEN
INCIDENT
[Rele.ised to the press September 17]
In response to inquiries by press correspond-
ents as to whether he wished to comment on the
anniversary of the Mukden incident, the Secre-
tary of State made the following statement :
"September 18, as the whole world knows,
marks the eleventh anniversary of a fateful
stejj of aggression in Manchuria by the Japa-
nese warlords. The course of aggression there
embarked uf)on was followed by successive ag-
gressions in Asia, Africa, and Europe and has
led step by step to the present world conflict.
"The American Government and people ad-
mire sincerely the gallant resistance offered by
the Government and people of China to the
ruthless and lawless Japanese aggressor. We
are confident that the military efforts of free
peoples, which have been the inevitable answer
to brutal and predatory Japanese attacks upon
peaceful populations, will defeat and destroy
the military caste that controls Japan.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUI>L<ETIN
The Department
APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
Mr. Lester S. Dame was designated an Acting
Assistant Chief of the American Hemisphere
Exports Office, effective September 15, 1942 (De-
partmental Order 1090).
Mr. Honore Marcel Catudal was designati'd
an Assistant Chief of the Division of Commer-
cial Policy and Agreements, effective September
16, 1942 (Departmental Order 1091) .
Treaty Information
PUBLICATIONS
Agreement With Iceland
An agreement for the exchange of official pub-
lications between the Government of the United
States of America and the Government of Ice-
land was entered into by an exchange of notes
dated August 17, 1942.
The agreement, which entered into effect on
August 17, 1942, provides that the exchange
offices for the transmission of publications shall
be, on the part of the United States of America,
the Smithsonian Institution, and, on the part of
Iceland, the National Library of Iceland
( Landsbokasaf n Islands ) . The Library of Con-
gress shall receive, on behalf of the United
States, the publications to be exchanged, and
the National Library of Iceland shall receive the
publications on behalf of Iceland. Each Gov-
ernment furnished to the other a list of the pub-
lications which it agi'eed to remit, and each
Government agreed to bear the postal, railroad,
steamship, and other charges arising in its own
country and to expedite the shipments as far as
possible. The agreement will shortly be printed
in the Executive Agreement Series.
STRATEGIC MATERIALS
Rubber Agreement With Panama
A statement regarding the signing of a rub-
ber agi-eement between the United States of
America and the Government of Panama ap-
pears in this Bulletin under the heading "Amer-
ican Republics".
Legislation
Draft of proposed pi-ovision pertaining to appropriation
"Salaries of Ambassadors and Ministers" : Commu-
nication from ttie President of tlie United States
transmitting a draft of a proposed provision pertain-
ing to tlie appropriation "Salaries of Ambassadors
and Ministers" contained in tbe Department of State
Appropriation Act for the Fiscal Year 1943. [Pro-
vides funds for salary of Mr. Joseph C. Grew, until
recently Ambassador to Japan.] H. Doc. 838, 77th
Cong. 2 pp.
Sixth Report to Congress on Lend-Lease Operations:
Message from the President of the United States.
H. Doc. 839, 77th Cong. 30 pp.
Revenue Act of 1942: Hearings before the Committee
on Finance, U. S. Senate, 77th Cong., 2d sess., on
H. R. 7378, an act to provide revenue, and for other
purposes. (Revised.) August 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14,
1942. Vol. 2. [Includes letters from the Secretary
of State regarding tax increases on cigars and In
connection with the proposed tax on imported bitters,
pp. 1462 and ISll, respectively.] pp. xil, 1309-2376.
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States of Ameiica and the Republic of Cuba Signed
at Washington August 24, 1934 As Amended by
Supplementary Agreements Signed at Washington
December IS, 1939 and at Habana December 23,
1941, and Protocol and Exchanges of Notes. Publi-
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Japan 777
Lend-Lease Operations 778
Proclaimed List: Supplement 2 to Revision III . . . 780
The Department
Appointment of OfEcers 780
Cultural Relations
Advisory Committees to the Department of State . . 780
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The War
ADDRESS BY THE FORMER AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN '
[Kclensed to the press September 22]
"Don't let it happen here." It must and shall
not happen here. There is a ring of determina-
tion in tliose words that inevitably reminds one
of the old spirit of Verdun: "They shall not
pass." Surely every American, every red-
blooded American — and we are a red-blooded
people — from ocean to ocean and from frontier
to frontier of our great land cannot fail to thrill
at those decisive words. Already we are
"trampling out the vintage where the grapes
of wrath are stored" ; we have "loosed the fate-
ful lightning of our terrible swift sword" ; and
month by month and day by day that stalwart
light arm of ours that holds the sword grows
steadily stronger and stronger and stronger.
"They shall not pass!" "It must not happen
here !"
I have recently returned from Japan. I have
lived in Japan for the past 10 years. I know
the Japanese people, and I know something
about the Japanese military machine, which
means their Army and their Navy, their air
force, their merchant marine, now almost en-
tirely converted to transports and to carriers
of supplies. I know the fighting spirit of the
Japanese soldier and sailor and airman, their
almost fanatical determination to serve their
Emperor and their nation to the death, and the
intensive training which they have undergone
through many years — at least a generation.
They called their campaign in China theii-
"Holy War". I do not know what slogan they
' Delivered by the Honorable Joseph C. Grew at the
Red Cross Nurses' Aid Rally at Rockefeller Center,
New York, N. Y., on September 22, 1942, and broadcast
over Station WJZ.
have attached to this total war, but it cannot
be less strong. Their decisiveness and determi-
nation are in no way less than ours ; their whole
country and every man and woman in their
country are geared to total war. That military
system of theirs has developed a formidable
and grim machine; their men on many fronts
are fighting and will continue to fight like
veritable tigers; their factories at home are
steadily turning out the implements of war;
their ships are steadily carrying those imple-
ments of war and the supplies needed both
abroad and at home ; and their women, both at
home and in the field, are supporting their men
with that same fanatical loyalty and valor,
for their women too are made of strong stuff.
The issue is joined. I know and you know
what they are saying, tliose men and women of
Japan: "It shall happen there!" — in these our
United States.
To us who have recently returned from that
land of fanatical unity and determination and
utter devotion to a cause which ihey themselves
have been told is a just cause and which not all
of them but most of them believe to be a just
cause, it is inconceivable that any of our fellow
countrymen whose eyes are open to the facts,
who understand that this great land of ours,
the priceless heritage of our American citizen-
ship, and the freedom and the duties that are
part and parcel of that citizenship are in peril —
it is inconceivable that any American can con-
tinue to follow his or her accustomed rounds
as in times of peace. I say in peril and I mean
\n peril. We who lived in the Far East do not
easily forget the rape of Nanking, the details
of which are far too revolting to mention here;
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
we do not easily forget the Panay or the bomb-
ing of two or three hundred of our religious
missions throughout China, unquestionably a
definite, concerted program to drive all Ameri-
can interests out of China. When I protested,
the Japanese authorities used to say that these
bombings were accidental. I replied that two
or three accidents might happen but not two
or three hundred accidents. The Chinese used
to say that when a bombing attack occurred the
most dangerous sjiot in the town and the one to
get farthest away from was the American mis-
sion. Nor can we forget many of those old per-
sonal friends who appeared on the evacuation
ships — shadows of their former selves after the
long months of solitary confinement and the
tortures they had suffered. These things we
cannot forget. They who have suffered can
never forget. That is the soi't of peril that con-
fronts our own beloved land today.
Women of America, the Red Cross needs you.
Here is your opportunity to serve. You should,
and I believe you will, welcome this opportunity
with joy. It is only through the maximum ef-
fort of the individual that the maximum effoil
of our country can be welded into form. Your
service will support and strengthen and encour-
age the valor and fighting spirit of our boys at
the front. Will you leave them to do the job
alone ? You, also, may trample out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored. You,
also, with our fighting men, may say: "They
shall not pass." You, also, may say : "It shall
not happen here!" — if only you will volunteer
and serve our Nation in its hour of peril.
LEND-LEASE OPERATIONS
The President, on September 11, 1942, trans-
mitted to the Congress the sixth quarterly report
on operations under the Lend-Lease Act of
March 11, 1941. In his letter of transmittal,
the President said:
"As our men move overseas to battle they must
and will have sufficient quantities of the best
equipment the United States can produce. At
the same time we must provide more weapons
to the armies of our allies already in the fight-
ing lines. Britain has been fighting the Nazis
for three years, China is in her sixtli year of
wai', and in Russia the war's greatest land front
is more than a year old. From the beginning
they have carried on without enough guns or
tanks or planes. It is through their uphill fight
that the war has not been lost. Only by
strengthening our allies and combining their
strength with ours can we surely win.
"Deliveries of lend-lease supplies, which have
been growing, will have to grow much larger
still. We and the other United Nations need
all tlie weapons that all of us can produce and
all the men that all of us can muster. In rela-
tion to their available resources Britain and
Russia have up to now produced more weapons
than we have. And they are continuing to pro-
duce to the limit, in spite of the fact that Russia
is a battlefield and Britain an offensive base.
So far the United States has little more than
passed the halfway mark towards maximum
possible war production. Not until we have
reached the maximum — and we can do this only
by stripping our civilian economy to the bone —
can our fighting men and those of our allies be
assured of the vastly greater quantities of weap-
ons required to turn the tide. Not until then
can the United Nations march forward together
to certain victory."
The report stated that the total amount of
lend-lease aid from March 1941 through Au-
gust 1942 was $6,489,000,000. Of this amount,
$5,129,000,000 comprises the value of goods
transferred and of services rendered; the re-
mainder, $1,360,000,000, represents the value of
lend-lease goods in process on August 31, 1942.
Currently, aid is being provided at the rate of
approximately ^8,000,000,000 annually.
Goods transferred consist of military items,
such as planes, tanks, guns, and other muni-
tions ; industrial products, such as steel, machine
tools, and petroleum products; and agricultural
commodities, chiefly foodstuffs. Of the goods
transferred, approximately 90 percent have been
SEPTEMBER 26, 1942
exported and the remainder are at docks and
warehouses awaiting exportation.
Services rendered include repairs in the
United States to United Nations' shipping; new
factory and shipyard facilities in the United
States for production of lend-lease goods ; neces-
sary shipping for transporting materials to
lend-lease countries ; supply services performed
in base areas abroad; and training of United
Nations' air forces in the United States.
The value of goods in process represents the
value of articles ready to be transferred or arti-
cles for use in the assembly of other articles
which will shortly be transferred. This should
not be confused with goods "on order" but rep-
resents completed work for which expenditures
have been made.
Lend-lease exports have gone to the regions
where the needs have been greatest. At first,
when the battle of Britain was raging, they
went primarily to the United Kingdom. As
the war spread to Africa, the Middle East, Aus-
tralia, and the Soviet Union, aid went to those
areas. Aid to Cliina has been hampered by
transportation difficulties, but this situation
will be solved by the development of other
means of transportation. Currently, the United
Kingdom and the Soviet Union are each re-
ceiving about 35 percent of lend-lease mate-
rials, and the Middle East, Australia, and other
points are receiving the remaining 30 percent.
Before the Lend-Lease Act was passed our
allies made contracts with American manufac-
turers for production of planes, tanks, and
other munitions. These are still coming off the
assembly lines and are being exported simul-
taneously with items obtained under lend-lease.
From March 1941 through August 1942, the re-
port states, the value of goods actually exported
under lend-lease was $3,525,000,000 ; in the same
period the value of goods purchased directly by
lend-lease countries approximated $5,800,000,-
000.
Within the Lend-Lease Act and with lend-
lease funds there is opportunity for testing and
developing new ideas and special projects that
may help to win the war. To facilitate effective
delivery of lend-lease aid under frequently dif-
ficult conditions, a program is under way with
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779
lend-lease funds to construct various types of
small craft, including harbor tugs, coastal
tankers, light-draft tow boats and cargo ves-
sels, and small wood barges for use in shallow
rivers and harbors with no modern cargo-han-
dling facilities. Some of these craft are already
in service; others will go into commission
shortly.
The Lend-Lease Act provided that aid may
be extended to the government of any country
whose defense the President should deem vital
to the defense of the United States. Those
countries now include Argentina, Belgium,^
Bolivia,^ Brazil,^ British Commonwealth of
Nations,^ Chile, China,' Colombia,^ Costa Kica,^
Cuba,^ Czechoslovakia,^ Dominican Republic,^
Ecuador,^ Egypt, El Salvador,^ France (Fight-
ing),^ Greece,^ Guatemala, Haiti,' Honduras,'
Iceland,' Iran, Iraq, Mexico,' Netherlands,' Nic-
aragua,' Norway,' Panama, Paraguay,' Peru,'
Poland,' Turkey, U. S. S. R.,' Uruguay,' Vene-
zuela,' and Yugoslavia.'
The program of reciprocal lend-lease aid has
become a very important aspect of the prose-
cution of the war. Formal reciprocal-aid
agreements, signed September 3, 1942 with the
United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and
Fighting France,^ specify the kinds of articles,
services, facilities, and information which these
countries undertake to supply to the United
States for the joint prosecution of the war. The
report points out that this represents more than -
a gracious gesture of good-will ; it means using
the war resources of the United Nations in the
most economical way. It means a saving in
time and an aid in solving our supply problems
by application of the principle tliat "the war
production and war resources of each nation
should be used by all United Nations' forces in
ways which most effectively utilize the available
materials, manpower, production facilities, and
shipping space".
1 Countries with which agreements for lend-lease aid
have been signed.
- A lend-lease agreement has been signed with the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire-
land, the principles of which were accepted by the
Governments of Australia and New Zealand.
8 Bulletin of September 5, 1942, p. 734.
780
PROCLAIMED LIST: SUPPLEMENT 2
TO REVISION III
[Released to the press September 21]
The Secretary of State, acting in conjunction
with the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, the
Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce,
the Board of Economic Warfare, and the Act-
ing Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, on
September 21 issued Supplement 2 to Revision
III of the Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked
Nationals, promulgated August 10, 1942.^
Part I of this supplement contains 227 addi-
tional listings in the other American republics
and 16 deletions. Part II contains 137 addi-
tional listings outside the American republics
and 5 deletions.
The Department
APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
Mr. Joseph C. Grew, on September 1, 1942,
was appointed a Special Assistant to the Sec-
retary of State and will perform such duties
as may from time to time be assigned to him in
this capacity by the Secretary (Departmental
Order 1095).
Cultural Relations
ADVISORY COMMITTEES TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
On September 25, 1942 the Department of
State released to the press the membership for
1942-43 of the General Advisory Committee on
Cultural Relations; the Advisory Committee on
Exchange Fellowships and Professorships; the
Advisory Committee on the Adjustment of For-
eign Students in the United States; and the
Advisory Committee on Inter-American Co-
operation in Agricultural Education. These
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN
Committees, created under authority of the act
of August 9, 1939, entitled "An Act to authorize
the President to render closer and more effec-
tive the relationship between the American re-
publics", advise the Department, through the
Division of Cultural Relations, on specific
phases of the cultural-relations program.^ It
has been agreed that these Committees will
serve jointly the Office of the Coordinator of
Inter- American Affairs and the Department of
State.
The members of each Committee for 1942-43
are as follows :
General Advisory Committee on Cultural Relations
The Honorable Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of
the United States of America, Washington,
D.C.
Robert G. Caldwell, Ph.D., Dean of Humanities,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam-
bridge, Mass.
Ben M. Cherrington, Ph.D., Director of the Founda-
tion for the Advancement of the Social Sciences,
University of Denver, Denver, Colo.
Stephen P. Duggan, Ph.D., Director, Institute of
International Education, 2 West Forty-fifth
Street, New York, N.T.
Waldo G. Leland, Litt.D., Director, American
Council of Learned Societies, 1219 Sixteenth
Street NW., Washington, D.C.
The Honorable Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Carl H. Milam, Executive Secretary, American
Library Association, 520 North Michigan Ave-
nue, Chicago, 111.
Beardsley Ruml, Ph.D., Treasurer, R. H. Macy and
Company, New York, N.Y.
James T. Shotwell, Ph.D., Chairman, National Com-
mittee of the United States of America on
International Intellectual Cooperation, 405 West
One Hundred and Seventeenth Street, New
York, N.Y.
George N. Shuster, Ph.D., President, Hunter Col-
lege, New York, N.Y.
John W. Studebaker, LL.D., Commissioner of Edu-
cation, Federal Security Agency, Washington,
D.C.
Advisory Committee on Exchange Fellowships and
Professorships
Stephen P. Duggan, Ph.D., Director, Institute of
International Education, 2 West Forty-fifth
Street, New York, N.Y.
" Bulletin of May 17, 1941, p. 603.
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781
Albert L. Barrows, Ph.D., Executive Secretary,
National Researcli Council, 2101 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, D.C.
Martin McGuire, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate Schools of
Arts and Sciences, Catholic University of Amer-
ica, Washington, D.C.
Waldo G. Leland, Litt.D., Director, American Coun-
cil of Learned Societies, 1219 Sixteenth Street
NW., Washington, D.C.
W. Rex Crawford, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
Donald Young, Research Secretary, Social Science
Research Council, 230 Park Avenue, New Yorlv,
N.T.
Advisory Committee on the Adjustment of Foreign
Students
Edgar J. Fisher, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Institute
of International Education, 2 West Forty-fifth
Street, New York, N.Y.
Thomas E. Jones, President, Fisk University, Nash-
ville, Tenn.
Professor Gladys Bryson, Smith College, Northamp-
ton, Mass.
Ben M. Cherrlngton, Ph.D., Director of the Founda-
tion for the Advancement of the Social Sciences,
University of Denver, Denver, Colo.
Charles W. Hackett, Ph.D., Professor of Latin-
American History, University of Texas, Austin,
Tex.
Allan Blaisdell, Director, International House,
Berkeley, Calif.
Father George B. Ford, Columbia University, New
York, N.Y.
J. Raleigh Nelson, Ph.D., Director of the Interna-
tional Center, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Mich.
Advisory Committee on Inter-American Cooperation in
Agricultural Education
Thomas Barbour, Ph.D., Sc.D., Director, Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.
Earl N. Bressman, Ph.D., Chief, Agricultural Divi-
sion, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American
Affairs, Washington, D.C.
Homer J. Henney, Ph.D., Dean of Agriculture, Colo-
rado State College, Fort Collins, Colo.
H. Harold Hume, Dean, College of Agriculture,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
John C. Patterson, Ph.D., Chief, Division of Inter-
American Educational Relations, United States
Offlce of Education, Federal Security Agency,
Washington, D.C.
Knowles A. Ryerson, M.S., Dean, College of Agri-
culture, University of California, Davis, Calif.
T. W. Schultz, Ph.D., Iowa State College, Ames,
Iowa.
J. G. Lee, Jr., Dean, College of Agriculture, Louisi-
ana State University, University, La.
Treaty Information
ALLIANCE AND MUTUAL ASSISTANCE
Treaty Between the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Nortliern Ireland and the Union
of Soviet Socialist Repuhlics
There is printed below the text of the treaty
of alliance in the war against Hitlerite Ger-
many and her associates in Europe and of col-
laboration and mutual assistance thereafter,
signed at London between the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on May 26.
1942. The text of the treaty, with the omission
of footnotes, is printed from British Treaty
Series No. 2 (1942), Cmd. 6376. Eatifications
of the treaty were exchanged at Moscow on
July 4, 1942.
"His Majesty The King of Great Britain, Ire-
land, and the British Dominions beyond the
Seas, Emperor of India, and the Presidium of
the Supreme Council of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics;
"Desiring to confirm the stipulations of the
Agreement between His Majesty's Government
in the United Kingdom and the Government of
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for joint
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action in the war against Germany, signed at
Moscow on the 12th July, 1941,^ and to replace
them by a formal treaty ;
"Desiring to contribute after the war to the
maintenance of peace and to the prevention of
further aggi-ession by Germany or the States
associated with her in acts of aggression in
Europe ;
"Desiring, moreover, to give expression to
their intention to collaborate closely with one
another as well as with the other United Nations
at the peace settlement and during the ensuing
period of reconstruction on the basis of the
principles enunciated in the declaration made
on the 14th August, 1941 by the President of
the United States of America and the Prime
Minister of Great Britain - to which the Gov-
ernment of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Eepublics has adhered ;
"Desiring, finally, to provide for mutual
assistance in the event of an attack upon either
High Contracting Party by Germany or any
of the States associated with her in acts of
aggression in Europe.
"Have decided to conclude a treaty for that
purpose and have appointed as their Plenipo-
tentiaries : —
"His Majesty The King of Great Britain, Ire-
land, and the British Dominions beyond the
Seas, Emperor of India,
"For the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland: The Eight Honourable
Anthony Eden, M.P., His Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
"The Presidium of the Supreme Council of
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics :
"M. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Peo-
ple's Commissar for Foreign Affairs,
"Wlio, having communicated their Full Pow-
ers, found in good and due form, have agreed
as follows: —
"PAET I.
"Article I.
"In virtue of the alliance established between
the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Eepublics the High Contracting Par-
' Bulletin of September 27, 1941, p. 240.
' Bulletin of August 6, 1941, p. 125.
ties mutually undertake to afford one another
military and other assistance and support of all
kinds in the war against Germany and all those
States which are associated with her in acts of
aggression in Europe.
"Article II.
"The High Contracting Parties imdertake not
to enter into any negotiations with the Hitlerite
Government or any other Government in Ger-
many that does not clearly renounce all aggres-
sive intentions, and not to negotiate or conclude
except by mutual consent any armistice or peace
treaty with Germany or any other State associr
ated with her in acts of aggression in Europe.
"PAET II.
"Article HI.
"(1) The High Contracting Parties declare
their desire to unite with other like-minded
States in adoptuig proposals for common action
to preserve peace and resist aggression in the
post-war period.
"(2) Pending the adoption of such proposals,
they will after the termination of hostilities
take all the measures in their power to render
impossible a repetition of aggression and viola-
tion of the peace by Germany or any of the
States associated with her in acts of aggression
in Europe.
"Article IV.
"Should one of the High Contracting Parties
during the post-war period become involved in
hostilities with Germany or any of the States
mentioned in Article III (2) in consequence of
an attack by that State against that Party, the
other High Contracting Party will at once give
to the Contracting Party so involved in hos-
tilities all the military and other support and
assistance in his power.
"This Article shall remain in force until the
High Contracting Parties, by mutual agree-
ment, shall recognise that it is superseded by
the- adoption of the proposals contemplated in
Article III (1). In default of the adoption of
such proposals, it shall remain in force for a
period of twenty years, and thereafter until
terminated by either High Contracting Party,
as provided in Article VIII.
SEPTEMBER 26, 1942
783
"Article V.
"The High Contracting Parties, having re-
gard to the intei'ests of the security of each of
them, agree to work together in close and
friendly collaboration after the re-establish-
ment of peace for the organisation of security
and economic prosperity in Europe. They will
take into account the interests of the United
Nations in these objects, and they will act in
accordance with the two principles of not seek-
ing territorial aggrandisement for themselves
and of non-interference in the internal affairs
of other States.
"Article VI.
"The High Contracting Parties agree to ren-
der one another all possible economic assistance
after the war.
'•Article VII.
"Each High Contracting Party undertakes
not to conclude any alliance and not to take
part in any coalition directed against the other
High Contracting Party.
"Ajjticle VIII.
"The present Treaty is subject to ratification
in the shortest possible time and the instru-
ments of ratification shall be exchanged in Mos-
cow as soon as possible.
"It comes into force immediately on the ex-
change of the in.struments of ratification and
shall thereupon replace the Agreement between
the Government of the Union of Soviet Social-
ist Kepublics and His Majesty's Government
in the United Kingdom, signed at Moscow on
the 12th July, 1941.
"I'art I of the present Treaty shall remain
in force until the re-establishment of peace be-
tween the High Contracting Parties and Ger-
many and the Powers associated with her in
acts of aggression in Europe.
"Part II of the presejit Treaty shall remain
in force for a period of twenty years. There-
after, unless twelve months' notice has been
given by either Party to terminate the Treaty
at the end of the said period of twenty years,
it shall continue in force until twelve months
after either High Contracting Party shall have
given notice to the other in writing of his in-
tention to terminate it.
"In witness whereof the above-named Pleni-
potentiaries have signed the present Treaty and
have affixed thereto their seals.
"Done in duplicate in London on the 26th
day of May, 1942, in the English and Kussian
languages, both texts being equally authentic.
Anthony Eden. V. Molotov."
Publications
Department of State
During the quarter beginning July 1, 1942
the following publications have been released by
the Department:^
17-14. The Department of f^tate of the United States.
Prepared by William Gerber, Division of Research
and Publication. January 1942. vi, 91 pp., illus.
200.
1757. Reciprocal Trade : Agreement Between the United
States of America and Haiti Relating to Waiver in
Respect of Tariff Preferences Accorded the Dominican
' Serial numbers which do not appear lu this list have
u|ipeared pre\iousIy or will appear in subsequent lists.
Itepublic by Haiti Under a Treaty of Commerce Be-
tween Haiti and the Dominican Republic Signed
August 2tj, 1941 — Effected by exchange of notes signed
February 16 and 19. 1942. Executive Agreement
Series 238. 4 pp. 50.
175S. Exchange of OfiBcial Publications : Agreement Be-
tween the United States of America and Liberia — ■
Effected by exchange of notes signed .lanuary 15,
1942; effective January 15, 1942. Executive Agree-
ment Series 239. 6 pp. 50.
17159. International Traffic in Arms : Regulations Is-
sued on June 2, 1942 by the Secretary of State, Gov-
erning Registration and Licensing Under Section 12
of the Joint Resolution Approved November 4, 1939
and Related Laws. 8th ed. 51 pp. 10^.
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1760. Exchange of Official Publicatious : Agreement Be-
tween the United States and Panama — Effected by
exchange of notes signed November 27. 1941 and
March 7, 1942 ; effective November 27, 1941. Execu-
tive Agreement Series 243. 7 pp. 5*'.
1761. Tlie Department of State Bulletin, vol. VI. no. 157,
June 27, 1942. 15 pp. lOff."
1762. Reciprocal Trade: Agreement Between the United
States of America and Haiti Construing Certain
Provisions of the Trade Agreement of March 28,
1935 and Modifying the Agreement Effected by Ex-
change of Notes Signed February 16 ami 19. 1942 —
Effected by exchange of notes signed April 25, 1942.
Executive Agreement Series 252. 4 pp. 5^.
1763. The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Na-
tionals. Supplement 4, July 17, 1942, to Revision II
of May 12, 1942. 19 pp. Free.
1764. Diplomatic List, July 1942. ii, 101 pp. Subscrip-
tion, $1 a year ; single copy, 10^.
1765. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII. no.
158, July 4, 1942. 24 pp. 10(#.
1766. Principles Applying to Mutual Aid in the Pro.se-
cution of the War Against Aggression: Preliminary
Agreement Between the United States of America and
China — Signed at Washington June 2, 1942 ; effective
June 2, 1942. Executive Agreement Series 251. 3 pp.
50.
1767. Publications of the Department of State (a list
cumulative from October 1, 1929). July 1, 1942.
31 pp. Free.
1769. Application of Selective Training and Service
Act of H>40, As Ajnended, to Canadians in the United
States, and Reciprocal Treatment of American Citi-
zens in Canada : Agreement Between the United
States of America and Canada — Effected by exchange
of notes signed March 30 .'ind April 6 and 8, 1942.
Executive Agreement Series 249. 6 pp. 5^.
1770. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII, no.
159, July 11, 1942. 28 pp. 10^.
1771. The American Foreign Service: General Informa-
tion for Applicants and Sample Entrance-l^xamina-
tion Questions. Revised to June 1, 1942. iv. 150 pp.
Free.
1772. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII. uo.
163, July 18, 1942. 10 pp. 10«*.
1773. The War and Human Freedom : Address by Cor-
dell Hull, Secretary of State, over the National Radio
Networks, July 23, 1942. 18 pp. 50.
1774. The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Na-
tionals. Supplement 5. July 31, 1942, to Revision II
of May 12, 1942. 16 pp. Free.
1775. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII, no.
161, July 2.5, 1942. 18 pp. 100.
1776. Foreign Service List, July 1, 1942. iv, 115 pp.
Subscription, 500 a year ; single copy, 150.
' Subscription, $2.75 a year.
1777. Transfers of Citizens and Former Citizens Be-
tween Armed Forces : Agreement Between the United
.States of America and Canada — Effected by exchange
of notes signed March 18 and 20, 1942. Executive
Agreement Series 245. 4 pp. 50.
1778. The L>epartment of State Bulletin, vol. VII, no.
162, August 1, 1942. 27 pp. 100.
1779. The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nation-
als : Revision III, August 10, 1942, Promulgated Pur-
suant to Proclanuition 2497 of the President of July
17, 1941. 230 pp. Free.
1780. Diplomatic List, August 1942. ii, 101 pp. Sub-
scription, .$1 a year; single copy, 100.
1781. Index to the Department of State Bulletin, vol.
VI, nos. 1:J2-157, January 3 - June 27. 1942. 27 pp.
1782. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII, no.
163, August 8, 1942. 12 pp. 100.
1783. Military Highway to Alaska : Agreement Between
the I'nited States of America and Canada — Effected
by exchange of notes signed March 17 and 18, 1942.
Executive Agreement Series 246. 5 pp. 50.
1784. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII, no.
161A, July 25, 1942, Supplement : Trade Agreement
With Uruguay. 28 pp. 100.
1785. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII, no.
164, August 15, 1942. 12 pp. 100.
1786. Exchange of Ollicial Publications: Agreement Be-
tween the United States of America and Bolivia —
Effected by exchange of notes signed January 26 and
31, 1942; effective January 31. 1942. Executive
Agreement Series 242. 9 pp. 50.
1787. Reciprocal Trade: Agreement Between the
United States of America and the Republic of Cuba
Signed at Washington August 24, 1934 as Amended
by Supplementary Agreements Signed at Washington
December 18, 1939 and at Habana December 23, 1941,
and Protocol and Exchanges of Notes, vi, 56 pp. 100.
1788. The I'roclaimed List of Certain Blocked Na-
tionals. Supplement 1, August 28, 19-t2, to Revision
III of August 10, 1942. 23 pp. Free.
17S9. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII, no.
165, August 22, 1942. 10 pp. 100.
17!)0. Principles Applying to Mutual Aid in the Prose-
cution of the War Against Aggression: Preliminary
Agreement Between the United States of America
and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North-
ern Ireland — Signed at Wa.shington February 23.
1942 ; effective February 23, 1942. Executive Agree-
ment Series 241. 3 pp. 50.
1792. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII, no.
166, August 29. 1942. 10 pp. 100.
1793. Unemployment Insurance Benefits: Agreement
Between the United States of America and Canada —
Effecteil by exchange of notes signed March 6 and
12, 1942; effective April 12, 1942. Executive Agree-
ment Series 244. 4 pp. 50.
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1794. Naval Mission : Agreement Between the United
States of America and Brazil — Signed May 7, 1942 ;
effective May 7, 1942. Execntive Agreement Series
247. 12 pp. 50.
1795. Diplomatic List, September 1942. ii, 101 pp.
Subscription, $1 a year ; single copy, 100.
1799. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII. no.
167, September 5, 1942. 20 pp. lO^'.
ISOO. The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Na-
tionals. Supplement 2, September 18, 1942, to Re-
vision III of August 10, 1942. 17 pp. Free.
1801. The Department of State Bulletin, vol. VII, no.
168, September 12, 1942. 8 pp. 100.
1803. Interchange of Patent Rights, Information, In-
ventions, Designs, or Processes: Agreement Between
the United States of America and Great Britain —
Signed at Washington Augiist 24, 1942; effective
January 1, 1942. Executive Agreement Series 268.
6 pp.
Conference Series :
[50n.] Proceedings of the Eighth American Scientific
Congress, Held in Washington May 10-18, 1940.
Washington, 1941-. Limited distribution by the
Department of State to participating individuals
and organizations and to certain depository li-
braries and institutions.
Vol. I. Organization, Activities, Resolutions, and
Delegations. 1941. .539 pp.
Vol. II. Anthropological Sciences. 1942. 340 pp.
Vol. III. Biological Sciences. 1942. 530 pp.
Vol. (V. Geological Sciences. 1942. 764 pp.
Teeatt Series:
977. Provisional Administration of European Colonies
and Possessions in the Americas : Convention Between
the United States of America and Other American
Republics — Signed at Habana July 30, 1940; pro-
claimed by the President of the United States Febru-
ary 12, 1942. 33 pp. 10?*.
978. Inter-American Indian Institute' Convention be-
tween the United States of America and Certain
Other American Republics — Opened for slgnatiire at
Mexico City from November 1 to December 31, 1940;
signed for the United States of America November
29, 1940: proclaimed by the President of the United
States February 12, 1942. 46 pp. 100.
98;3. Double Taxation : Convention and Protocol Be-
tween the United States of America and Canada —
Signed at Washington March 4, 1942; proclaimed by
the President of the United State.s June 17, 1942.
13 pp. 5t
Legislation
Settlement of Mexican Claims Act of 1942. S. Rept.
1615, 77th Cong., on S. 2.128. 3 pp.
Amending the Nationality Act of 1940 To Preserve the
Nationality of Citizens Residing Abroad. S. Rept.
1616, 77th Cong., on H.R. 7152. [Includes letter from
Secretary of State favoring legislation.] 2 pp.
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