800.796/752: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 1—9:15 p.m.]
3573. Please notify Burden and Warner that Hildred, Director General of Civil Aviation, wishes to come to the United States for about a week during May to make arrangements for technical discussions contemplated in Berle–Warner London talks. Formal request will probably come to the Department from Foreign Office in about a week. If there is any objection to his coming at this time, or if some specific period of one week would be particularly convenient, please telegraph the Embassy. It would be appreciated if the British Embassy were not notified until it approaches the Department.
We believe it would be most useful for Hildred to go to the United States at this time, not only for the contribution he will make to the eventual success of the technical discussions to be held, but also because he has become increasingly disposed to the United States point of view on degree and type of international economic control of civil aviation, and will be in a better position to interpret this view after a trip to the United States. This paragraph is, of course, most secret.