
    No. 1189.
    No. 1190.
    De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. et al. v. United States ; and Societe Internationale Forestiere et Miniere du Congo et al. v. United States.
    April 23, 1945.
    
      Messrs. Robert T. Swaine and Wm. Dwight Whitney for petitioners in No. 1189.
    
      Mr. John M. Harlan for petitioners in No. 1190.
    
      Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Berge, Messrs. Charles H. Weston, Herbert A. Berman and Ediuard S. Stimson for the United States.
   Petitions for writs of certiorari to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York granted.  