811.79640/301
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom
(Bingham) to the Secretary of State
No. 2464
London, August 18,
1936.
[Received August 24.]
Sir: Pursuant to the Embassy’s telegram
No. 404 of August 18, 5 p.m.,90 concerning the proposed trans-Atlantic air
services, I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of a note, No.
W 8742/186/27 of August 17, 1936, received to-day from the Foreign
Office, together with a single copy of its enclosure, a draft of the
permits which it is proposed to issue to the Pan-American Airways in
respect of the services under consideration. There has not been
sufficient time before the closing of to-day’s pouch to have
additional copies made of the enclosure to the note.
Respectfully yours,
For the Ambassador:
Herschel V. Johnson
First Secretary of Embassy
[Enclosure]
The British Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs (Eden) to the American
Ambassador (Bingham)
No. W 8742/186/27
[London,] 17 August,
1936.
Your Excellency: I have the honour to
refer to Your Excellency’s notes Nos. 1890 of the 10th July and
1915 of the 18th July, 1936, regarding the proposed
trans-Atlantic air services and the proposed local service
between the United States and Bermuda.
- 2.
- His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom are in full
agreement with the text of the permits proposed to be issued
to Imperial Airways, subject to the following
considerations. In particular they note that the
interpretation of the permits is made subject to exchanges
of notes between our two Governments.
- (a)
- His Majesty’s Government assume that paragraph (2)
of the Bermuda permit, which is referred to in the
second and third paragraph of Your Excellency’s note
of the 10th July, is intended as an interpretation
of the assurances set out in paragraph (4) of the
note which I had the honour to address to Mr.
Atherton on the 29th June last and indicates merely
the consent of His Majesty’s Government not to use
the New York–Bermuda local service as a means of
creating a separate trans-Atlantic service from the
United Kingdom to the United States, but does not
imply that His Majesty’s Government
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accept any restriction
upon their own use of territories under the
sovereignty of the British Crown.
- (b)
- His Majesty’s Government would suggest that in
paragraph (2) of the Bermuda permit the words “by
either Company, unless additional frequencies are
authorised by agreement between the two
Governments”, should be inserted after the words
“not to exceed two round trips per week”, in order
to conform with conditions (a) and (e) of the first
paragraph.
- 3.
- In conclusion I transmit for the information of Your
Excellency’s Government a draft of the permits93 which it is
proposed to issue to Pan-American Airways in respect of the
services under discussion.
I have [etc.]
(For the Secretary of State)
P. Leigh-Smith
