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The Counselor of the British Embassy (Wright) to the Assistant Secretary of State (Berle)

Washington, August 29, 1944.

Dear Mr. Berle: I send you herewith the text of a message dated August 29th which we have received for you from Lord Beaverbrook about Civil Aviation.

Yours very sincerely,

Michael Wright
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[Enclosure]

Message From Lord Beaverbrook for the Assistant Secretary of State (Berle), Dated August 29, 1944

I have now had an opportunity of consulting my colleagues on the subject of your proposals to me of August 3rd elaborated in your telegram of August 23rd.74

2.
We ask you for a postponement of your project for moving out on to civil air routes of the world.
3.
We still feel that the next step should be to hold an international conference on basis agreed between us in London last April at the earliest date convenient to us both.
4.
If for domestic reasons, you should find it difficult to hold a conference in Washington at the present time, we shall understand your position and stand ready to call a conference ourselves in London.
  1. Reference is presumably to telegram 6662, August 21, 9 p.m., to London, supra.↩