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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Berle)
Mr. Pearson came in to see me and presented a note76 which I have already transmitted to the Aviation Division, urging the prompt convening of an international aviation conference.
I told him that the British had been making a similar suggestion; that we had had it under consideration in the Department and that it was presently before the White House. I told him confidentially that I hoped we would have action one way or the other very soon; and that I had some reason to believe that the decision would be in line with the course desired by the Canadian Government, by the British Government, and I thought also by our own Government.
I likewise said that since one of the urgent problems would be the opening at once of communications to countries freed of military interruption, a conference of the kind suggested would have to be prepared to discuss at least provisional arrangements capable of immediate implementation. Mr. Pearson cordially agreed.
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