Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, General: Economic and Social Matters, Volume II

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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Chief of the Aviation Division (Walstrom)⁸⁰

[Washington,] April 8, 1944.

Mr. Gore-Booth⁸¹ came in this afternoon and left a copy of a paraphrase of a telegram dated April 6, 1944, from the British Foreign Office to the British Ambassador in Moscow, reading as follows:

“We should welcome an exchange of views with the Soviet Government on Civil Aviation at the earliest possible moment. Please enquire of the Soviet Government if, for this purpose, they would care to arrange for their representatives at United States-Russian talks in Washington to come straight on here after these talks are concluded.”

Mr. Gore-Booth said that the substance of the above message had also been conveyed to the Russian Ambassador here.

J. D. Walstrom

80. Undated marginal notation on this document reads: “I was informed of this in London—and said we of course had no objection but welcomed it. A. A. B[erle].”
81. Paul H. Gore-Booth, First Secretary of the British Embassy.