62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-GERMAN PROPERTY IN SPAIN-MAY 10, 1948 Aprovecho la oportunidad, Sefior Encargado de Negocios, para reiterarle las seguridades de mi distinguida consideraci6n. A MARTIN A Al Sefior PAUL DE CuLBERTSON, Encargadode Negocios a. i . de los EstadosUnidos de America. - Translation MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MADRID, May 10, 1948. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your courteous Note dated this day, in which you were so good as to communicate to me the Ante p. 2113 . following, which, having been duly translated into Spanish, reads thus: "Under instructions of my Government, I have the honor to refer to the Accord signed this day by the duly appointed Chiefs of Dele- Ante, p.202 . gations of the Spanish Government and of the Governments of the United States of America, of France, and of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as the Representatives in Spain of the Allied Control Council for Germany, regarding the elimination of the economic potential situated in Spain capable of constituting a danger to peace, and the liquidation of balances and payments claims between the Governments of Spain and Germany. Pursuant to those instructions, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that, in fulfillment of the understanding reached during the course of the negotiations terminating in that Accord, my Govern- ment, by this exchange of Notes and the identical Notes exchanged today between Your Excellency's Government and the Chiefs of Missions in Spain of the Governments of France and of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, considers that Accord mutually confirmed and in full effect as of this date. Likewise, I take this occasion to confirm to Your Excellency that, in keeping with the Accord reached in these general negotiations, the official assets registered in the name of the German Government, as also those others constituted with German official funds, both actually in possession of the Representatives in Spain of the Allied Control Council for Germany and those which, for the same reasons, may be delivered to them subsequently, are subject to the conditions estab- lished by the Notes exchanged between Your Excellency and the Chiefs of the diplomatic missions of the United States of America, of France, and of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on October 28,1946." I have the honor to inform you of the agreement of the Spanish Government with the foregoing. I avail myself of the opportunity, Sir, to renew to you the assur- ances of my distinguished consideration. A MARTN A Mr. PAUL CITBERTSON, Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the United States of America. - 2115
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