811.7490F/12–1345: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Saudi Arabia ( Eddy )
357. Following is text of section 1 of Protocol between UK and US concluded at Bermuda Telecommunications Conference on Dec 4.37 Full text of Protocol is being sent by mail.38
“The United Kingdom Government will inform the Saudi Arabian Government that they understand that the United States Government [Page 1031] are anxious that the Saudi Arabian Government should modify their agreement with the Eastern Telegraph Company in such a way as to permit of the erection by a United States Company of a radiotelegraph station, to be the property of the Saudi Arabian Government, for the purpose of operating a direct radiotelegraph circuit between Saudi Arabia and the United States, and that if the Saudi Arabian Government wish to avail themselves of this offer, the United Kingdom Government would not wish the agreement between the Eastern Telegraph Company and the Saudi Arabian Government to stand in their way. It is understood that the question of any further modifications of the concession required to permit of the operation of other direct radiotelegraph circuits by the Saudi Arabian Government would be for determination by the latter.”