UNITED KINGDOM-CLAIMS Feb. 29, 1944 Mar. 28,1944 tort against members of the United States Forces in the United Kingdom. 2. I was most gratified to learn that the United States Government are able to accept the conditions and limitations which I attached, in my note No. W 3151/150/64 of the 29th February and in the annex thereto, to the acceptance by His Majesty's Government of respon- sibility for a settlement as a matter of reciprocal aid of a number of classes of such claims. I am further most grateful for your assur- ance that the United States Government for their part will make similar arrangements for the settlement under Lend-Lease of such claims arising out of the acts of His Majesty's Forces in the United States in the course of their Military duties. 3. I am able to confirm the interpretation placed by the United States Government upon paragraphs 6 and 11 of the annex to my note of the 29th February. In stipulating in the former paragraph that the United States authorities should supply a retainer to the Treasury Solicitor I have used the word "retainer" in the sense of an authority to act on behalf of the defendant. The intention of the latter paragraph is, as the United States Government assumes, that claims should not be brought by one government against the other. It is not suggested that the claims of United States nationals in their own right on account of personal injury, death, or property losses should be waived. 4. Your Excellency is no doubt aware that on receiving your note under reference, I announced in Parliament on the 30th March that a satisfactory solution to this problem had been reached. At the same time I circulated a written statement of the details of this solution in the official report of Parliamentary debates, and 1 enclose ten copies of this statement for your information. 5. I shall be grateful if you will inform the United States Govern- ment of the pleasure with which I have received their acceptance of the proposals made to them and of my satisfaction that it has been possible to reach a settlement of this matter. I have the honour to, with the highest consideration, Your Excellency's obedient Servant, (For the Secretary of State) E. E. CROWE. His Excellency The Honourable JOHN G. WINANT, etc., etc., etc., 1, Grosvenor Square, W1. Ante, pp. 2728, 2732. Ante, pp . 2733, 2734, 2736. "Retainer." 61 STAT.] 2737
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