Note: The Agreement entered into force, September 2, 1954.
Reference: This Agreement is also published in 238 UNTS, p. 336.
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THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO THE PHILIPPINE SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
AMERICAN EMBASSY
Manila, September 2, 1954
No. 0268
Excellency:
I have the honor to refer to the Agreement which entered into force on December 13, 1952 regarding the voluntary enlistment in the United States Navy of one thousand (1,000) male Philippine citizens per calendar year and to the amendment, which entered into force on June 21, 1954, increasing the number of male Philippine citi2ens authorized to be enlisted in the United States Navy from one thousand (1,000) to two thousand (2,000) per calendar year.
In addition to those authorized in the amendment referred to in the preceding paragraph my Government is desirous of accepting for voluntary enlistment in the United States Coast Guard of up to four hundred (400) male Philippine citizens per calendar year under the same conditions as are set forth in the Agreement which entered into force on December 13, 1952 and the amendment of June 21, 1954.
I am authorized by my Government to state that this note and your acknowledgment of its receipt containing Your Excellency's assurances that the proposal mentioned herein is acceptable to Your Excellency's Government will be considered by my Government as placing on record the understanding arrived at between our two Governments in this matter and as further amending the Agreement of December 13, 1952 so as to permit the voluntary enlistment in the United States Coast Guard of up to four hundred (400) male Philippine citizens per calendar year.
Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.
R. A. SPRUANCE
The Honorable Carlos P. Garcia
Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines
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THE PHILIPPINE SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Manila, September 2, 1954
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's note No. 0268 of today's date reading as follows:
I am pleased to inform Your Excellency that my Government interposes no objection to the desire of the Government of the United States of America to accept for voluntary enlistment in the United States Coast Guard a number of up to four hundred (400) male Philippine citizens per calendar year under the same conditions as are set forth in the Agreement which entered into force on December 13, 1952 and the amendment thereto which took effect on June 21, 1954.
It is understood that Your Excellency's note hereinabove quoted and this reply place on record the understanding arrived at between our two Governments in this matter and as further amending the Agreement of December 13, 1952 regarding the voluntary enlistment of Philippine citizens in the United States Navy so as to permit the voluntary enlistment in the United States Coast Guard of up to four hundred (400) male Philippine citizens per calendar year. It is also understood that this amendment takes effect upon this exhange of notes today, September 2, 1954.
Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.
CARLOS P. GARCIA
Secretary
His Excellency Raymond A. Spruance
American Ambassador
Manila