Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 60 Part 2.djvu/721

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60 STAT.] TURKEY-MUITUAL AID SETTLEMENT-MAY 7, 1946 (a) to the Government of the Republic of Turkey, or (b) to any other government and retransferred to the Government of the Republic of Turkey. ARTICLE II The Government of the Republic of Turkey will pay to the Gov- layamti feor,lend- ernment of the United States a net sum of 4,500,000 United States dollars within thirty (30) days after this Agreement has been ex- ecuted. This amount is in payment for (a) all lend-lease articles in the categories of machine tools and other productive machinery, locomotives and other railroad rolling stock, and load-carrying trucks of 1/ ton and greater capacity. (i) for which the Government of the United States has not received any payment; and (ii) which were in the possession or control of the Government of the Republic of Turkey, its agents or distributees at midnight on September 1,1945, or thereafter passed into the possession or control of the Government of the Republic of Turkey, its agents or distributees. (b) All lend-lease articles (other than those covered by requisi- tions calling for cash payment) transferred to the Government of the Republic of Turkey after March 11, 1941, for which the Government of the United States has not been reimbursed but for which it has been the policy of the Government of the United States to seek cash reimbursement from the Govern- ment of the Republic of Turkey. (c) The net amount of claims due from one Government to the other arising out of World War II, excluding amounts still payable for lend-lease articles covered by cash reimbursement lend-lease requisitions heretofore filed by the Government of the Republic of Turkey. ARTICLE III The Government of the Republic of Turkey hereby acquires, with- ',,,ll to lend-leao out qualification as to disposition or use, full title to all articles de- scribed in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Article II hereof, and to all lend-lease articles now in the possession or control of the Govern- ment of the Republic of Turkey, its agents or distributees, for which the Government of the United States has been fully reimbursed. ARTICiL IV (a) Under Article V of the Agreement dated February 23, 1945, rR. ig ht Uiof.S . to on the Principles applying to Mutual Aid Between the Govern- tieles- ments of the United States and of the Republic of Turkey, the Government of the United States has the right to recover at the end of the present emergency, as determined by the Presi- dent of the United States, such defense articles transferred 1811