Hopkins Papers
Prime Minister Churchill to the Presidents Special Assistant (Hopkins)
Cairo, December 5, 1943.
My Dear Harry, I understand that Lord Beaverbrook has not received any favourable reply to his request to you for a conference on Civil Aviation.1
Our people are anxious to get on with this and I should be grateful if you could let me know if there are any obstacles we could remove, so that progress may be made.2
Yours always
W[inston]
- The request was contained in telegram 7168, October 18, 1943, from the American Embassy at London to the Department of State (800.796/493). Hopkins replied to Beaverbrook on October 27, 1943, that he did not regard the time as “opportune to reach agreement here along broad lines which would relate to civil aviation”. On November 3, 1943, Hopkins wrote to Winant, with reference to “difficulties caused you by my cable to Beaverbrook”, that there had been a delay in reaching agreed positions in the United States Government on post-war civil aviation (Hopkins Papers). See also ante, p. 621. Correspondence on Anglo-American conversations of 1943–44 relating to civil aviation is scheduled to be published subsequently in other volumes of the Foreign Relations series.↩
- No written reply to this communication has been found. Hopkins corresponded with Beaverbrook in January 1944 regarding the conduct of future international discussion of civil aviation (Hopkins Papers); see also Notter, p. 356.↩