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December, 1958.
MUT Herbertaon,
With reference to my letter of today about
i'aciflc islands questions, there is one nspect of the
matter in connection with Civil Aviation to which we
should like to draw special attention.
As was stated in the last sentence of the
Foreign Office memorandum of the a^nd November, the
important point in this connection would seem to be to
ensure that a British Commonwealth Company will bo
available, whenever required, to lodge an application
with the United States Government for landing facilities
in islando under United States sovereignty.
It seems clear that the United Klngdor. representatives
at the meeting proposed by the r.ew Zealand Government
will be expected to explain what are the United
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Kingdom Government's ideas with rogard to the formation
of such a Company.
Presumably the consideration of this question
and of any other questions connected with Civil Aviation
which
J.J.W.  H^RBSKTSON, ESQ
0. B. K.
which It would be desired to raise at the proposed
meeting will fall to be dealt with by the Imperial
Air Com unications Committee or a Sub-Committee of that
Committee.    In this commotion, the question whether
Trans-Tasraan Airways would be a suitable Company for
dealing with larger problems of Trans-i'acifio flight
is one requiring very careful consideration.
As regards the question of a meeting place, you
wil_ see that the draft telegram enclosed in my letter
of today suggests that this might be :.ew Zealand. The
New Zealand Government suggested the meeting and are
at present talcing the lead in these Pacific Island
raattern,   and we want to encourage their interest in
these questions.     Moreover, from the International
point of view, a meeting in ;iew Zealand would, we
should think, assume lesu interest than a meeting in
Fiji, and would be less likely to rouse the United
States to fresh embarrassing action.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Balfour
and Acheson, and I enclose a copy of a letter to Jacob
as to the matters referred to in the first part.
We
We should like to send the telegram to
:;ew Zealand as soon as possible, and I should be
grateful, therefore, if you could let me know as
soon as possible whether you concur in its terras,
without awaiting consideration of the matters referred
to in this letter.
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