DRAFT                            
 
      FROM THE AUSTRALIAN MINISTER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE
 
                                                            
 
 
With a view to supplementing Articles II and VI of the agreement 
      of May, 1942 between our two Governments for the provision of 
      reciprocal aid, I have the honor to set off below my understanding 
      of the principles and procedures applicable to the provision 
      of aid by the Government of Australia to the armed forces of 
      the United States and the manner in which such aid will be correlated 
ith the maintenance of those forces by the United States Gov
 
                                                            
 
 
1. 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 May 1942 
      to provide the other with such articles, facilities or information, 
      useful in the prosecution of their common war undertaking, as 
      each may be in the position to supply. The general principles 
      to be followed in providing such aid is that the