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Coll 5/87S ‘United States: Request for Military Air Transit Rights in India and Burma’ [208r] (415/609)
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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tJnited States personnel from or through the Far East or the
dear and Middle East and to serve United States occupation
forces in the Faf East. The rights the American Commissioner
has been instructed to request are as follows:
1) Right of military air transit and technical stop
which means the right to operate military aircraft
into, over and away from India, to land at the air
ports specified to refuel, effect repairs or due to
unfavourable weather, without restriction except as
mutually agreed between the United States and India.
2) The following attendant rights:
a*) to install, maintain and operate such aids to
navigation, communications and weather reporting
facilities as may be required subject to mutual
agreement. «
b) to operate where necessary seaplane tenders in the
territorial waters of specified seaplane landing
areas, such facilities to include the use of
anchorage facilities in such waters by the
vessels in question, without restriction except
as mutually agreed.
e; to irrport, station, store in. or remove from
designated airfields the minimum personnel, supplies,
and material necessary for transit operations, free
^ ol customs, duties, taxes, and imposes of any kind.
the exemption of United States official personnel,
aircraft, supplies and equipment in transit from
customs, duties, taxes and imposts, and inspections
otner than those required for quarantine or similar
purposes.
*
©) to contract with persons, companies, or government
agencies for services and supplies locally required.
The United States would withdraw all uniformed personnel
as quickly as possible, providing necessary servicing arrange
ments with either United States or Indian personnel can be made.
Since, in the view of the United States Government, the two
sets of negotiations are closely interrelated, it would appear
that either both negotiations should be oarried on in Washington
or, alternatively, the air negotiations be completed in New Delhi
as rapidly a s possible in order that, on the basis of such
concluded arrangements, the financial negotiations now in progres
in Washington can also be concluded.
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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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- IOR/L/PS/12/2054
- Title
- Coll 5/87S ‘United States: Request for Military Air Transit Rights in India and Burma’
- Pages
- 15r:17v, 69r:70v, 156r:157v, 206r:209v
- Author
- United States Federal Government
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