DRAFT                            
 
      FROM THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE 
 
                                                            
 
 
With a view to supplementing Articles II and VI of the Agreement 
      of February 23, 1942 between our two Governments for the provision 
      of reciprocal aid, I have the honor to set forth below my understanding 
      of the principles and procedures applicable to the provision 
      of aid by the Government of the United Kingdom to the armed forces 
      of the United States and the manner in which such aid will be 
      correlated with the maintenance of those forces by the United 
                        States Government.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
l. Each of our Governments pledged itself in the United Nations 
      Declaration of January 1, 1942 to employ its full resources, 
      military or economic, against those nations with which it is 
      at war. Each Government undertook in the Agreement of February 
      23, 1942 to provide the other with such articles, services, facilities 
      or information, useful in the prosecution of their common war 
      undertaking, as each may be in a position to supply. The general 
      principal to be followed in providing such