Editorial Note

An agreement between the United States and Portugal granting American aircraft the right to continue using transit facilities in the Azores was effected by an exchange of notes signed at Lisbon February 2, 1948; operative retroactively to December 2, 1947. For text of Agreement, see Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) No. 2351; United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST), volume 2 (pt. 2), page 2266.