811.0141 Phoenix Group/105
The British Embassy to the Department of State
Aide-Mémoire
His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom take note of the projected hydrographic survey announced in the State Department’s memorandum of the 25th October, and while reserving all questions of title will be glad to take advantage of the offer to furnish them with such technical information as is obtained as a result of the survey of the islands of the Phoenix Group.
Arrangements have already been made for an expedition under the auspices of His Majesty’s Government in New Zealand to conduct a general technical survey of outlying British Pacific islands with a view to the ultimate establishment of a British trans-Pacific air service. The information obtained as a result of these investigations will most readily be placed at the disposal of the United States Government.
In this connexion it is hoped that the United States Government will see their way to accept the invitation already extended to them to confer with His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, His Majesty’s Government in the Commonwealth of Australia and His Majesty’s Government in New Zealand in order to examine the common use of air facilities on Pacific islands for the purposes of transpacific flying.