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61 STAT.] UNITED KINGDOM-U. S . NAVAL BASE AT ARGENTIA Aug. 13 . 1947 4067 Oct. 23, 1947 The American Charge d'Affaires ad interim to the British Secretary of State for ForeignAffairs THE FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMERICAN EMBASSY London, October 23, 1947 YOUR EXCELLENCY, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's Note of August 13, 1947 (NO. AN 2793/107/45) to which there were annexed the revised terms of the agreement delimiting the waters adjacent to the United States Naval Base in Newfoundland. Your Excellency stated that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom desired that the agreement should be confirmed by an ex- change of Notes. The Government of the United States of America has approved of the revised terms of the agreement, as annexed hereto, and I now have the honor to state that the present Note and Your Excellency's Note of August 13, 1947, are to be regarded as placing on record the formal confirmation of the provisions of the agreement by the Governments of the United States of America and of the United Kingdom. Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration. W. J. GALLMAN Charge d'Affaires ad interim The Right Honorable ERNEST BEVIN, M.P ., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, The Foreign Office, London, S.W.1 . ANNEX Whereas, in paragraph 1 of Article 1 of the Agreement signed in London on the 27th March, 1941, relating to the Bases leased to the ssStat. 1500. United States of America, it is provided, among other things, that the United States shall have all the rights, power and authority within the limits of territorial waters and air spaces adjacent to, or in the vicinity of the Leased Areas, which are necessary to provide access to and defence of the Leased Areas, or appropriate for the control thereof; and Whereas, in paragraph 4 of Article 1 of the said Agreement is is 5 stat. im. provided that in the practical application outside the Leased Areas of the preceding paragraphs there shall be, as occasion requires, consultation between the Government of the United States and the Government of the United Kingdom; and Whereas in paragraph 4 of the Protocol to the said Agreement it is s5stt.Ira. agreed that in all consultations concerning Newfoundland arising out of Article I (4), II and XI (5) of the Agreement or of any other U stat.sI,s.