APPENDIX A (i) Estimated production available in 1943 including stocks at mines (ii) Allocations to U.K., U.S., and other destinations (iii) Shortages; and surpluses available for allocation Required by U.K. and U.S. on basis at (a) below U.S. Shortages & Surpluses (a) Total required (b) Grade to leave 12 months' stock in hand on 31.12.43 and provide a 10% margin for sinkings. South America Spain 5,000 Portugal 1,600 Sweden 500 Total The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs EMBASSY OF THE London, April 30, 1943 YOUR EXCELLENCY: I thank you for your note of today's date relative to the apportioning of supplies of African asbestos, with which you transmitted a copy of a memorandum of understanding signed on January 6 last by representatives of the Ministry of Supply of the United Kingdom and the Board of Economic Warfare and the Metals Reserve Company of the United States. In view of your assurance that the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland approves of the principles contained in the memorandum of understanding annexed to your letter, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Government of the United States of America likewise approves of those principles and is willing to give effect to the provisions thereof. I also have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Government of the United States of America concurs with your interpretation of the expression "cessation of hostilities" in Article II [11] of the memorandum of understanding. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurance of my highest consideration. The Right Honorable ANTHONY EDEN, M.C., M.P., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office, London. JOHN G. WINANT American Ambassador ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Agreement signed at Quebec August 19, 1943. Entered into force August 19, 1943 [For text, see 5 UST 1114; TIAS 2993.] JURISDICTION OVER PRIZES (INDIA) Exchange of notes at London June 10 and September 24, 1943, with proclamation by the President of the United States Reciprocity proclaimed by the President of the United States November 28, 1943 Entered into force November 28, 1943 Expired at conclusion of World War II 59 Stat. 1709; Executive Agreement Series 489 The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs EMBASSY OF THE No. 2719 SIR: London, June 10, 1943. I have the honor to refer to the arrangement 1 made between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of the United States by which, in conformity with the provisions of Public Law 704 enacted by the Seventy-seventh Congress of the United States and approved August 18, 1942, the courts of the United States were permitted to exercise jurisdiction over prizes taken by United States armed forces and brought into the territorial waters of the United Kingdom and Sierra Leone. A copy of the Act in question is enclosed for your convenient reference. The consent of the Government of the United Kingdom to this arrangement was notified to this Embassy by a note (No. W 13225/279/49) dated November 3, 1942.3 2 My Government now desires to obtain the consent of the Government of India to a similar arrangement with respect to prizes taken by United States armed forces and brought into the territorial jurisdiction of the Government of India. Permission is desired for special prize commissioners appointed by the district courts of the United States to exercise in India such powers and duties, in addition to those already prescribed for prize commissioners, as may be deemed necessary or proper for carrying out the purposes of Public 1 Agreement of Oct. 1 and Nov. 3, 1942 (EAS 393), ante, p. 628. 2 See 56 Stat. 746. EAS 393, ante, p. 629. |