Editorial Note
On March 8, 1951, the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank authorized two credits totaling $2,859,540 in favor of the Republic of Uruguay to assist in the purchase of 26 Diesel electric locomotives and spare parts by the Ferrocarril Central del Uruguay. For additional information, see Export-Import Bank of Washington, Twelfth Semiannual Report to Congress for the Period January–June 1951 (Washington, 1951), pages 15, 40.
Editorial Note
By an exchange of notes dated March 14, 1951, the United States and Uruguay concluded at Montevideo a General Point IV Agreement for Technical Cooperation, which entered into force on the same date for those provisions not requiring legislative approval. The notes were transmitted to the Department of State under cover of dispatch 875, from Montevideo, March 21, 1951, not printed (833.20/3–2151). For a press release dated March 14 concerning the agreement, see Department of State Bulletin, March 26, 1951, pages 501–502.