It is proposed that the program be carried on for approximately three years, in accordance with the following general plan.

At the request of Your Excellency's Government and within the limit of the funds set aside for the purpose, the Foundation will send to Ecuador such educational specialists as may be considered necessary in order to collaborate with your Excellency's Government in the cooperative program, and they shall be acceptable to the Ecuadoran Government. This group shall be under the direction of an official who will be designated as the Special Representative of the Inter-American Educational Foundation, Inc., and will be the representative of the Foundation in Ecuador in connection with this program. The specific projects and activities to be undertaken and the allocation of program funds therefor, and the methods and procedures and administrative practices to be employed in conducting the program, will be mutually agreed upon by the Minister of Education of the Government of Ecuador and the Special Representative of the Foundation. Such projects will include the sending of Ecuadoran specialists in education to the United States.

It is proposed that the program be carried out through an appropriate organization, section or procedures to be established within the Ministry of Education itself with administrative autonomy and that the said Special Representative shall also be named as the Director of such organization or section and shall administer the program.

Of the funds made available by the United States Government, Seventy Thousand Dollars ($70,000.00 U.S.) will be set aside and used for paying the salaries and other expenses of the educational specialists furnished by the Foundation, and the balance, together with the funds contributed by the Government of Ecuador, would be made available in Ecuador for the projects and activities mutually agreed upon for the program.

All property purchased with the funds made available in accordance with this proposal will become the property of the Government of Ecuador and shall be used for the cooperative program of education.

Inasmuch as the specialists to be sent to Ecuador by the Foundation will be United States citizens and employees of the United States Government and also non-residents of Ecuador, it is suggested that they shall be exempt from all income taxes and social security taxes with respect to income on which they are obliged to pay income or social security taxes to the Government of the United States of America, and from payment of customs and import duties and other taxes on their personal effects and equipment and supplies for their own use, and from investment and deposit requirements and other foreign exchange controls on funds brought into Ecuador for their normal living expenses.

I should be glad if your Excellency would be so good as to confirm to me your approval of this general proposal, with the understanding that the details for the establishment and organization of the proposed cooperative

program shall be further discussed and settled by written agreement between the Foundation and the Minister of Education.2

Please accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration.

I have the honor to reply to Your Excellency's courteous note number 18 of the 22d of the current month, in which, with reference to the conversations held with the Minister of Public Education and Mr. Kenneth Holland, President of the "Inter-American Educational Foundation, Inc." and other officials of the Government of Ecuador concerning the possibility of undertaking a cooperative program of education, you inform me that the United States Government is prepared to comply with the Ecuadoran Government's desire to carry out that project which assuredly would serve to stimulate the exchange of educational ideas and methods between the two countries.

2. Your Excellency informs me that the United States Government, acting through the "Inter-American Educational Foundation, Inc." will cooperate in the said educational program by making available the sum of $100,000 at a minimum rate of exchange—provided that the Government of Ecuador for its part allocates for that purpose an amount equivalent to $50,000 at the same rate of exchange—as well as such personnel and other essentials as it may consider necessary to provide.

3. Your Excellency states that the United States Government acting through the Foundation, will send such specialists as may be necessary to collaborate with the Ecuadoran personnel. The specialized personnel is to be under the direction of a North American official who will be the special representative of the Foundation.

*For contract signed Jan. 22, 1945, by the President of the Inter-American Educational Foundation, Inc. and the Ecuadorean Minister of Public Education, see 61 Stat. 3261 or p. 7 of TIAS 1660.

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4. You indicate that, in accordance with the decisio.us made in agreement with the Minister of Education, the projects and activities to be undertaken, as well as the other details related to the development of the cooperative educational program, must be duly carried out by mutual agreement between the Ecuadoran officials and the North American specialists.

5. In the name of the Ecuadoran Government, I wish to express to Your Excellency the satisfaction with which the intention of the North American Government to cooperate in this country's educational endeavors is regarded, and I thank Your Excellency for the timely and effective steps taken to bring to fruition that aspiration on the part of Ecuador.

6. The Ministry of Education will, in due time, proceed to establish the Organization with administrative autonomy which, within the framework of the Agreement, will take charge of the scientific and effective development of the program agreed upon.

7. For my part, in giving my approval to the general basis on which the Cooperative Educational Agreement is to be effected, I must inform Your Excellency that I will not fail to make every possible effort tending toward the success of the program, and to the end that this test of cooperation may become a new factor for a better understanding between our two countries.

8. With respect to the possibility that certain privileges and exemptions specified in the note to which I am replying may be granted to North American officials, I do not believe it possible to make a definite statement at this time; for a careful study of Ecuadoran legislation will have to be made in order to determine how to reconcile the granting of such privileges with the pertinent legal provisions.

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration.

C. PONCE ENRÍQUEZ

His Excellency

Mr. ROBERT MCGREGOR SCOTTEN

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

of the United States of America.

MILITARY SERVICE

Exchange of notes at Washington April 2 and 5, 1945

Entered into force April 5, 1945

I have the honor to refer to the verbal indication made on March 23, 1945, by an officer of the Ecuadoran Embassy to an officer of the Department of State that Your Excellency's Government desires to conclude an agreement with this Government with respect to the application of the United States Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, to Ecuadoran nationals residing in the United States.

As you are aware, the Act provides that with certain exceptions every male citizen of the United States and every other male person between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five residing in the United States shall register. The Act further provides that, with certain exceptions, registrants within specified age limits are liable for active military service in the United States armed forces.

This Government recognizes that from the standpoint of morale of the individuals concerned and the over-all military effort of the countries at war with the Axis Powers, it is desirable to permit certain nationals of cobelligerent countries who have registered or who may register under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, to enlist in the armed forces of their own country, should they desire to do so. It will be recalled that during the World War this Government signed conventions with certain associated powers on this subject. The United States Government believes, however, that under existing circumstances the same ends may now be accomplished through administrative action, thus obviating the delays incident to the signing and ratification of conventions.

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1 Upon termination of functions of U.S. Selective Service System (60 Stat. 341). $54 Stat. 885.

This Government has, therefore, initiated a procedure permitting aliens who have registered under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, who are nationals of certain cobelligerent countries and who have not declared their intention of becoming American citizens to elect to serve in the forces of their respective countries, in lieu of service in the armed forces of the United States, at any time prior to their induction into the armed forces of this country. This Government is also affording to such nationals, who may already be serving in the armed forces of the United States, an opportunity of electing to transfer to the armed forces of their own country. The details of the procedure are arranged directly between the War Department and the Selective Service System on the part of the United States Government and the appropriate authorities of the cobelligerent government concerned. It should be understood, however, that in all cases a person exercising an option under the procedure must actually be accepted by the military authorities of the country of his allegiance before his departure from the United States.

Before the above-mentioned procedure is made effective with respect to a cobelligerent country, this Department wishes to receive from the diplomatic representative in Washington of that country a note stating that his government desires to avail itself of the procedure and in so doing agrees that:

(a) No threat or compulsion of any nature will be exercised by his government to induce any person in the United States to enlist in the forces of his or any foreign government;

(b) Reciprocal treatment will be granted to American citizens by his government; that is, prior to induction in the armed forces of his government they will be granted the opportunity of electing to serve in the armed forces of the United States in substantially the same manner as outlined above. Furthermore, his government shall agree to inform all American citizens serving in its armed forces or former American citizens who may have lost their citizenship as a result of having taken an oath of allegiance on enlistment in such armed forces and who are now serving in those forces that they may transfer to the armed forces of the United States provided they desire to do so and provided they are acceptable to the armed forces of the United States. The arrangements for effecting such transfers are to be worked out by the appropriate representatives of the armed forces of the respective governments;

(c) No enlistments will be accepted in the United States by his government of American citizens subject to registration or of aliens of any nationality who have declared their intention of becoming American citizens and are subject to registration.

This Government is prepared to make the proposed regime effective immediately with respect to Ecuador upon the receipt from you of a note