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Coll 5/87S ‘United States: Request for Military Air Transit Rights in India and Burma’ [189r] (377/609)
The record is made up of 1 file (303 folios). It was created in 2 Mar 1946-26 Dec 1947. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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. ^ the bracketed phrase at the end of paragraph 3 of his
draft below, Mr. Donaldson suggests that the request for railita™-
air ^ransit rights,which we now learn the U.S. Commissioner in
New Delhi has made directly from the Government of India is
apparently wholly unconnected with the original request ?or
operational bases made by the State Department from H.M.G.
,, tt Y ° u Wl11 see > however, that the terms specified at X in
the U.S. Commissioner^ Aide Memoire (flagged below) are
essentially the same as those of the approach made by Mr. Byrnes
i to ivIr * Bevin , on which the Chiefs of Staff have now produced
■a report, which I attach.
I think that what has happened is not that the Americans
have made a wholly unconnected approach in Delhi, but that they
■Zl followed a technique which they rather favour in dealing
with the Governments of the British Commonwealth - that of
making parallel approaches to H.M.G. and the Dominion Government
corwernedjwithout informing either of the line taken with the
o her, and then revealing the more favourable answer to both
parties and suggesting it as a basis for further negotiation.
.'.light it not therefore be as well to make it clear that
we ave fathomed this American technique by leaving out the
bracketed please in paragraph 3.and amplifying paragraph 4 so as
° s ress the point which it is most in our interest to establish -
3 #e *. a °dly civil air questions should be discussed in New
Delhi, and that the matter of military rights should be reserved
for negotiation between the U.S. Government and H.M.G., who can
en consult the Government of India as appropriate, and concert
policy with them. 9 ^
It is rather a portent that the Americans have begun to
adopt with the Government of India methods previously reserved
for the Dominions,
They are sure to do so more frequently when a popular
government is formed in India.
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The file contains papers related to negotiations for air transit rights for United States military aircraft through India and Burma. The United States Army Air Force (USAAF) had enjoyed transit rights for its aircraft for the duration of the Second World War (1939-1945), and desired to continue these rights for the duration of the military occupations of Germany and Japan. It contains aide memoires, correspondence, memoranda, and notes related to parallel negotiations between the Unites States and the governments of India and the United Kingdom (UK).
Two copies of a report –JP (46) 142 (Final)– on these proposals prepared by the Joint Planning Staff, a subcommittee of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, can be found on folios 123-135 and 137-145. They include appended maps of the route: see folios 134 and 145. A few preliminary drafts of the report can also be found within the file.
Papers relating to customs, health, and passport examination of Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft in India can be found on folios 27-39.
Towards the front of the file are a small number of papers regarding the need for the UK to enter into negotiations with the newly independent dominions of India and Pakistan in order to ensure continued air transit rights for British military aircraft.
The main correspondents in the file are as follows: officials of the Burma Office (A F Morley, and Leonard Brian Walsh-Atkins) officials of the Cabinet Office (Sir Leslie Chasemore Hollis and Lieutenant-Colonel T Haddon), officials of the Foreign Office, officials of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , representatives of the External Affairs Department of the Government of India, and representatives of the United States in both London and New Delhi (including Waldermar John Gallman). The file also contains a number of telegrams sent to/from the Governor of Burma and the Viceroy of India.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (303 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 304; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Title
- Coll 5/87S ‘United States: Request for Military Air Transit Rights in India and Burma’
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- front, front-i, 2r:7v, 11r:14v, 18r:68v, 71r:79v, 81r:82v, 84r:116v, 121r:133v, 135r:144v, 146r:155v, 158r:171v, 177r:180v, 182r:205v, 210r:221v, 223r:224v, 228r:304v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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