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Memorandum by the Chief of the Treaty Division ( Barnes ) to the Secretary of State

Agreement with the Netherlands for the Providing of Defense Articles and Defense Information

The agreement which is to be signed by you and the Netherlands Minister1 at noon on August 9, 1941, has been negotiated under the authority of and in conformity with the “Act to Promote the Defense of the United States”, commonly referred to as the lend-lease Act, approved March 11, 1941.2

Under this agreement, the United States agrees, upon certain conditions, to supply defense articles and defense information to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands agrees, on similar terms, that whenever it is in a position to do so it will make available to the United States defense articles and defense information which the United States in its own defense or in the defense of the Americas shall require.

The agreement becomes effective when signed and will continue in effect until a date to be agreed upon between the two Governments.

Charles M. Barnes
  1. Alexander Loudon.
  2. 55 Stat 31.