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table commodity agreements with respect to the products of either of them and of other nations in which marketing problems exist, and to cooperate with each other and with other nations to relieve the distress and want caused by the war wherever, and as soon as, such relief will be succor to the oppressed and will not aid the aggressor.

ARTICLE IV

Should circumstances arise in which the United States of America in its own defense or in the defense of the Americas shall require defense articles or defense information which the Republic of Ecuador is in a position to supply, the Republic of Ecuador will make such defense articles and defense information available to the United States of America, to the extent possible without harm to its economy and under terms to be agreed upon.

ARTICLE V

The Republic of Ecuador undertakes that it will not, without the consent of the President of the United States of America, transfer title to or possession of any defense article or defense information received under this Agreement, or permit its use by anyone not an officer, employee, or agent of the Republic of Ecuador.

Similarly, the United States of America undertakes that it will not, without the consent of the President of the Republic of Ecuador, transfer title to or possession of any defense article or defense information received in accordance with Article IV of this Agreement, or permit its use by anyone not an officer, employee, or agent of the United States of America.

ARTICLE VI

If, as a result of the transfer to the Republic of Ecuador of any defense article or defense information, it is necessary for the Republic of Ecuador to take any action or make any payment in order fully to protect any of the rights of any citizen of the United States of America who has patent rights in and to any such defense article or information, the Republic of Ecuador will do so, when so requested by the President of the United States of America. Similarly, if, as a result of the transfer to the United States of America of any defense article or defense information, it is necessary for the United States of America to take any action or make any payment in order fully to protect any of the rights of any citizen of the Republic of Ecuador who has patent rights in and to any such defense article or information, the United States of America will do so, when so requested by the President of the Republic of Ecuador.

ARTICLE VII

This Agreement shall continue in force from the date on which it is signed until a date agreed upon between the two Governments.

Signed and sealed in the English and Spanish languages, in duplicate, at Washington, this sixth day of April, 1942.

For the United States of America:

SUMNER WElles

Acting Secretary of State of the
United States of America

For the Republic of Ecuador:

C. E. ALFARO

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ecuador at Washington

DEFENSE BASE AT SALINAS

Agreement signed at Quito October 1, 1942, modifying and amplifying agreement of January 24, 1942, as modified and amplified

Entered into force October 1, 1942

1942 For. Rel. (VI) 376

Duly empowered by Colonel Alberto C. Romero, Minister of National Defense of Ecuador, and by the Commanding General of the Caribbean Defense Command of the United States of America, respectively, Colonel Ricardo Astudillo, Superior Commander of the Army of Ecuador, and Colonel Serafin M. Montesinos, United States Army, met to modify and amplify Articles 4 and 6 of the Agreement signed January 24, 19421 as modified by the Agreement signed February 20, 1942.2 These modifications and amplifications must be previously ratified by the Governments of Ecuador and the United States in order to be in effect.

Article 4 is amended to read as follows:

The boundaries of the fields and water areas where the above mentioned constructions and installations will be effected, are fixed in the adjoining sketch plan, except the North-South boundary which is changed as shown in the accompanying topographical map: "War Department, Office of the Division Engineer, Panama Division, Dated August 26, 1942, Scale 1′′= 600'. Drawing N° 5767."

Article 6 is amended to read as follows:

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The constructions and installations authorized may be started immediately upon the signing of the present agreement. The Government of the United States agrees to deliver to the Government of Ecuador the sum of seventy one thousand five hundred dollars ($71,500.00) for the expropriation and indemnization for the lands and dwellings of the Municipality of Salinas and of private citizens established on the lands pertaining to this Agreement, and

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for the demolition of the existing structures that may be necessary for the constructions and installations indicated above.

Signed at Quito on the 1st. day of October, 1942.

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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

Exchange of notes at Washington October 20 and 29, 1942, with memorandum of understanding of August 12, 1942

Entered into force October 29, 1942; memorandum of understanding operative from August 12, 1942

Superseded by agreement of January 26 and April 16, 1948 1

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56 Stat. 1787; Executive Agreement Series 284

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ecuadorean Ambassador

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

WASHINGTON
October 20, 1942

EXCELLENCY:

I have the honor to refer to a Memorandum of Understanding dated August 12, 1942, and signed by the Honorable Claude R. Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States of America, by His Excellency Ricardo Crespo Ordoñez, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Ecuador, and by Mr. Eric F. Lamb and Señor V. Illingworth, General Manager and President, respectively, of the Corporación Ecuatoriana de Fomento, relating to the establishment and operation of an agricultural experiment station in Ecuador, which reads in English and Spanish as follows:

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

In conformity with the desire of the Government of Ecuador that the Government of the United States of America and the Ecuadoran Development Corporation cooperate with the Government of Ecuador in the establishment and operation of an agricultural experiment station in Ecuador for the purpose of promoting the production of basic and strategic agricultural products, the Government of the United States of America through the United States Department of Agriculture, the Ecuadoran Development Corporation, and the Government of Ecuador, have reached the following understanding:

1. The general functions of the station shall include: (a) agronomic production investigations necessary to permanent agriculture over the whole of Ecuador with complementary products, particularly cocoa, rubber, abacá,

1TIAS 1875, post, p. 434.

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