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751G.94/401

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Smyth)39

[Washington,] November 22, 1941.

Mr. Hayter of the British Embassy informed Mr. Smyth during a call on November 22, 1941 that according to a recent telegram from the British Minister at Bangkok, Japanese members of the Thai-Indochina Boundary Commission are asking for the use of some Thai airdromes for “survey flights” and also for aviation gasoline from Thailand, presumably to be used in these flights. Mr. Hayter added that this information had been given to the British at Bangkok by the Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs.

  1. Initialed by the Chief of the Division (Hamilton).↩