Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 61 Part 4.djvu/581

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61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-MUTUAL AID SETTLEMENT-MAY 28, 1947 rights, in connection with war production carried on or con- tracted for prior to September 2, 1945 by the United States Government, its contractors or sub-contractors. (3) Claims, whether contractual or non-contractual, against the United States Government and against members of its armed forces and civilian personnel attached thereto arising out of acts or omissions in territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of members of such armed forces or such civilian personnel, both line-of-duty and non-line-of-duty, occurring on or after May 10, 1940 and prior to September 2, 1945 in the case of contracts, and occurring on or after May 10, 1940 and prior to July 1, 1946 in the case of other acts or omissions. (4) Claims of individuals, firms and corporations, subjects of the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time of the event giving rise to the claim, against the United States Government arising out of the requisitioning (as specified in Appendix 2 hereto) for use in the war program of property located in the Post, . 397. United States in which the claimant asserts an interest. B. An appropriate allowance for the undertaking of the Netherlands Government in sub-paragraph 4A of this Agreement has been made in computing the net amount of $67,500,000 due from the Netherlands Government to the United States Government under sub-paragraph 1A of this Agreement. Anic, p. 3S. 5. Surplus Property A. The two Governments agree that their rights and obliga- tions in connection with the line of credit for the purchase of sur- plus property heretofore granted by the United States Government in the amount of $30,000,000 (originally $20,000,000) shall be as stated in this Agreement; and the letters dated May 14, 1946 and December 9, 1946, from the United States Central Field Commis- sioner for Europe, Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, to the Netherlands Treasurer General, accepted by the Netherlands Government, establishing the line of credit, and subsequent com- munications relating thereto, are superseded by this Agreement. Like provision regarding the rights and obligations under the line of credit for the purchase of surplus property heretofore granted by the United States Government to the Netherlands Indies Govern- ment in the amount of $100,000,000 is made in a separate agreement signed concurrently herewith by the United States Government and the Netherlands Indies Government. B. The terms of payment of the amount due under the $30,000,- 000 line of credit shall be as stated in paragraph 6 of this Agree- ment. This change from the original terms of payment, and the like change regarding the $100,000,000 line of credit made in the separate agreement signed concurrently herewith by the United States Government and the Netherlands Indies Government, have been consented to by the United States Government as part of the general settlement herein made. 3929