Office of the Historian

800.796/754

The First Secretary of the British Embassy (Barclay) to the Assistant Secretary of State (Berle)

Ref: 56/176/44
Washington, [undated.]

Dear Mr. Berle: In the temporary absence of Mr. Wright, I send you herewith a copy of a telegram, sent to us by the Foreign Office on behalf of Lord Beaverbrook. This telegram is in reply to the message we sent to London, containing the amendments you had suggested to the answer which Lord Beaverbrook proposed to make to the question in the House of Lords regarding your recent conversations about civil aviation, a copy of which was enclosed in Mr. Wright’s letter of April 19th to you.96

We will, of course, be very glad to forward to Lord Beaverbrook any reply you may wish to make to the question he puts in the last paragraph of the enclosed message.

Yours very sincerely,

R. E. Barclay
[Enclosure]

Telegram From Lord Beaverbrook for the Assistant Secretary of State (Berle) Dated April 24, 1944

Many thanks for your telegram.

I accept all your amendments.

I will let you know when the statement is to be made. You will have seen that the Prime Minister dealt with a number of questions on the Conference in the House of Commons last week.

There is still great interest on the subject. What news have you of the Russians? We await your discussions with them which may make clearer many issues.

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