Office of the Historian

711.9327/7–2848: Airgram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Cabot) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, July 28, 1948.
[Received August 2—3:56 p. m]

A–679. Reference Department’s Airgram A–129, June 17, 1948. Embassy has not endeavored, as yet, to eliminate or modify Article 3 Bilateral Air Transport Agreement, in order eliminate possibility reviving discussion dormant Shanghai–Hong Kong question.

According Pan American representative here, prior conclusion Bilateral Agreement, PAA did not have any agreement with Chinese Government covering services to China.

Cabot

[No record of further negotiations regarding revision of the Air Transport Agreement has been found in the Department files.]