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  4. Agreement and exchanges of notes between the United States and the United Kingdom and protocol between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada concerning the defense of Newfoundland, signed March 27, 1941

Agreement and exchanges of notes between the United States and the United Kingdom and protocol between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada concerning the defense of Newfoundland, signed March 27, 1941

[For text of the agreement, notes, and protocol, see Department of State Executive Agreement Series No. 235 or 55 Stat. (pt. 2) 1560, 1595, 1599. For correspondence concerning the negotiations for transfer of American destroyers to the British Navy and for establishment of American naval and air bases in British possessions in the Western Hemisphere, see Foreign Relations, 1940, volume III, pages 49 ff.; see also ante, pages 53 ff.]