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These materials and supplies will be admitted temporarily free of duty under the following conditions:

a) "Materials and vehicles for transport by air, road or water imported will be placed, upon their entry into France, under Customs certificates without deposits, of two years' duration and renewable. These certificates will be returned to the Customs Service and turned in at the time of re-exportation of the material and vehicles.

b) "All consumable materials destined for the construction, the decoration or the maintenance of tombs, cemeteries or monuments will be subjected, at the time of their importation, to a Customs receipt without deposit, which will be returned to the issuing officer after having received endorsement either from the responsible director of the American Depot for storing and sorting such material (the name of this person shall previously have been communicated to the French customs administration) or from the municipal authority of the locality of destination or by the responsible director of the cemetery concerned indicating that the material or other consumable products in question have been put to the use for which intended."

The products included in this second category, which would no longer be used in France, shall be re-exported or become subject to tax.

Article 10. The French Government is prepared, within the framework of existing regulations, to grant complete freedom of movement to American personnel designated by the Government of the United States for entrance into or departure from the territories of France and the French Union.

Motor vehicles belonging to American personnel shall have the privilege, upon their entry into France, of being admitted temporarily free of duty, under customs receipts without deposit issued by the French customs administration upon presentation of a certificate of employment signed by a duly authorized official of the American Graves Registration Command, whose name shall previously have been communicated to the French customs administration.

The Government of the United States may recruit and employ locally French laborers, provided they are paid in conformance with the tariffs and regulations in force.

Foreign laborers coming from the American Zone of Occupation in Germany shall be employed only in the territory of metropolitan France. They must have military status; they must wear a uniform and shall be subject to American military discipline as well as to American legislation, according to conditions specified by the agreements regulating the sojourn of the American Armed Forces in France. The Government of the United States will assume entire responsibility for these foreign workers and will take in this respect such measures as the French Government will deem indispensable, before their entry into French territory as well as during the course of the period in which they are stationed on said territory.

The Government of the United States agrees to assure the payment of salaries, indemnities and costs of social security for the labor it will employ.

SECTION IV

Final Provisions

Article 11. The present agreement, which replaces that of August 29, 1927,2 shall become effective upon signature. It shall remain in force until the two Contracting Parties terminate it by common consent, but it can be terminated at any time, upon the desire of one of the parties, provided that notice be given to the other party a year in advance. Such termination shall not apply to the use of the terrains utilized for permanent cemeteries and memorials, including buildings constructed on said terrains.

Done at Paris, in duplicate, in the English and French languages, this first of October 1947.

For the Government of the United States of America

JEFFERSON CAFFERY

For the Government of the French Republic

H. TEITGEN

* TS 757, ante, p. 958.

RECRUITMENT OF VOLUNTARY LABOR FOR FRANCE IN UNITED STATES ZONE

OF GERMANY

Exchange of notes at Paris October 25, 1947

Entered into force October 25, 1947

Obsolete

61 Stat. 4113; Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1878

The Secretary General of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the American

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1. As a consequence of the exchanges of views which have taken place between the representatives of your Embassy and those of my Department relative to the recruitment for labor in France of free German workers in the United States Zone of Germany, you have informed me that the French Government will be able to proceed with the recruitment of such workers, under the authority of the Commander of the Zone, on the following conditions:

(a) Recruitment of free German workers will in no way affect the implementation of existing French commitments regarding the recruitment of displaced persons in Germany.

(b) Recruitment of free German workers under the provisions of this Agreement will be effected through the intermediary of the German labor offices on whose premises the French Recruitment Mission will question and furnish information to volunteers for labor in France.

The French Recruitment Mission will inform the appropriate United States Military Government authorities of any difficulties arising between it and the

German Labor Office in order that those authorities may take necessary action.

The provisions of the technical agreement referred to in paragraph 3 below will be reexamined at the request of the chief of the French Recruitment Mission if he considers that the recruitment of German workers for France is unsatisfactory and if, after investigation by the United States Military Government authorities, it appears that the inadequate recruitment results from obstructive practices by the German Labor Offices in the United States Zone of Germany.

(c) The families of voluntary German workers recruited for labor in France will leave for France, via the French Zone of Germany. The departure of the family will take place simultaneously with the departure of the worker, or in any case not later than one month thereafter.

(d) No recruitment will take place among workers employed in the mines.

(e) In exceptional circumstances, recruitment will be temporarily suspended at the request of the appropriate United States Military Government authorities among workers whom they consider as belonging to an occupation or being employed in areas where there exists a critical shortage of manpower.

My Government accepts these conditions.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 (c) above concerning the departure from the United States Zone of Germany of the families of voluntary German workers for France, the United States Government is disposed to examine the possibility of permitting, exceptionally, a certain number of families of those workers which may refuse or not be able to leave the United States Zone of Germany to remain in that Zone. The number of voluntary German workers who will be authorized to leave their families in the United States Zone of Germany will not exceed 10% of the total number of voluntary German workers recruited for France from the United States Zone of Germany.

This will not be done, however, until the problem of remittances from voluntary German workers is settled by the American, British and French Governments.

3. A technical agreement to implement the principles contained in this letter will be negotiated at Berlin by representatives of the American, British and French Governments.

4. All expenses incurred in the operation of the French Mission recruiting voluntary German workers in the United States Zone of Germany will be paid entirely by France. The activities of the French Recruiting Mission will be subject to the control of the United States Zone Commander.

5. Conversations will take place between representatives of the interested Governments with a view to terminating the present Agreement or modifying

its provisions at the moment when the recruitment of voluntary German workers in the United States Zone of Germany reaches a figure which may be considered by the Zone Commander as representing the maximum number of German workers, or the maximum in any given occupation, which the United States Zone in Germany can furnish to France at that time.

Please accept, Mr. Ambassador, the assurance of my high consideration.
J. CHAUVEL

His Excellency Mr. JEFFERSON CAFFERY
Ambassador of the United States

Paris

The American Ambassador to the Secretary General
of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs

MY DEAR MR. AMBASSADOR:

EMBASSY OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paris, October 25, 1947

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's note of October 25, 1947, which states:

[For text of U.S. note, see above.]

I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Government of the United States concurs in the terms of Your Excellency's note and agrees that that note together with this acknowledgment should constitute an agreement between our two Governments on the principles governing French recruitment of German labor in the United States Zone of Germany. Please accept, Mr. Ambassador, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.

JEFFERSON CAFFERY

His Excellency

M. JEAN CHAUVEL,

Secretary General of the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Paris

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