Office of the Historian

800.796/574: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, March 3, 1944—3 p.m.
[Received March 3—12:13 p.m.]

1733. Consensus, with which we agree, is that Tuesday’s45 wordy debate on civil aviation in the House of Commons has little significance and will have little effect on British domestic or international air policy. Elements of the Labor Party as the Department is aware favor the internationalization of control and ownership of international aviation and the emphasis given to this aspect of the problem may cause the Government to try to give more weight than it otherwise intended to the international control mechanisms for civil aviation in agreements which it reaches with other countries.

Copies of the debate are being sent by air mail.46

Winant
  1. February 29.↩
  2. In despatch 14214, March 2, 1944, not printed.↩