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A Fresh Token of Coöperation with Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

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Editorial Comment
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1943

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References

1 Dept. of State Bulletin, Jan. 9, 1943, Vol. VIII, p. 28.

2 Id., where it is said: “In the end, of course, with two great fleets such as ours the litigation proves useless. Recoveries tend to even themselves out. No financial advantage is gained by either Government, but much essential manpower is lost in the process.”

The arrangement was supplementary to the Mutual Aid Agreement with Great Britain of Feb. 23, 1942 (Dept. of State Bulletin, Feb. 28, 1942, Vol. VI, p. 190; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 36 (1942), p. 170), and to the agreements for Reciprocal Lend-Lease Aid of Sept. 3, 1942 (id., Sept. 5, 1942, Vol. VII, p. 734; this Journal, Supp., id., p. 219).

3 Dept. of State Bulletin, Jan. 9, 1943, Vol. VIII, p. 28.

4 According to Art. 3, for purposes of the agreement the expression “vessel owned by a contracting Government” is said to include “a vessel on bare boat charter to a contracting Government or requisitioned by a contracting Government on bare boat terms or otherwise in the possession of a contracting Government (except to the extent that the risk of loss or liability is borne by some person other than either contracting Government).”

5 Art. 4.

6 Art. 5.

7 Dept. of State Bulletin, Jan. 9, 1943, Vol. VIII, p. 28.

8 See Berizzi Bros. Co. v. S.S. Pesaro, 271 U. S. 562, 574, this Journal, Vol. 20 (1926), p. 811; The Navemar, 303 U. S. 67, this Journal, Vol. 32 (1938), p. 381.