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3932 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. such property or improvements or furnishings to the United States Government. C. The United States Government declares that it is now its intention to request that Netherlands currency be made avail- able for agreed educational programs under sub-paragraph 7A of this Agreement to the value of $5,000,000 and that it is now its intention to request that Netherlands currency be made avail- able for, or that there be delivered, real property, improvements and furnishings, or both, under sub-paragraphs 7A and 7B of this Agreement to the value of $8,700,000. This statement of inten- tion does not prevent the United States Government from later proposing different amounts from these in these connections. The foregoing amounts are inclusive of amounts heretofore requested under corresponding arrangements hitherto existing under the $30,000,000 line of credit. D. The dollar equivalent (computed in accordance with sub- paragraph 7E of this Agreement) of any Netherlands currency made available and of the Netherlands currency value of any prop- erties, improvements and furnishings delivered under this par- agraph 7 or under corresponding arrangements hitherto existing under the $30,000,000 line of credit shall be credited first to inter- est, if any, and then to instalments, if any, past due to the United States Government under this Agreement and then to the unpaid remainder of the total principal amount due under this Agree- ment. E. Any Netherlands currency made available and the Nether- lands currency value of any properties, improvements and furnish- ings delivered under this paragraph 7 or under corresponding arrangements hitherto existing under the $30,000,000 line of credit will be valued at the par value between such currency and dollars established in conformity with procedures of the International Monetary Fund, or, if no such par value exists, at the rate most favorable to the United States Government used by the Nether- lands Government in any official transaction at the time of the request by the United States Government that such currency be made available or that such properties, improvements or furnish- ings be delivered. 8. Silver Nothing in this Agreement affects the obligation of the Netherlands Government in connection with silver transferred to it by the United States Government under lend-lease. 9. Transfer of Title A. Except as provided in sub-paragraphs 9B and 9C of this Agreement, the United States Government and the Netherlands Government receive full title, without qualification as to disposi- tion or use, to all articles now held by them respectively which were supplied under lend-lease or reciprocal aid, but including retrans- ferred lend-lease articles only to the extent that consent to the