مجموعة ٨٧/٥س "الولايات المتحدة: طلب الحصول على حقوق عبور جوي عسكري في الهند وبورما" [و‎‎١‎٩‎٥] (٦٠٩/٣٨٩)

The War Department is willing to rurnowe all uniformed
personnel at an early date rovided their requirements can
be met by the use of civilian personnel.
o. If thu facilities they request are granted they would
o -tain the foilov;ing ad vant agos: -
(a) An alternative to the Pacific route consisting
of relatively short stages by which it would
be possible to fly short and medium range
aircraft from U. S. A. and Germany to the Par
East and elsevh re in Asia.
(b) The presence of American personnel and equipment
in countries along the route would strengthen
their position both commercially and politically.
In this connexion account must bo taken of the possibility
that this request has some bearing on the furtherance of
American civil aviation interests.
Mi li t ar y imp lie at i o ns
closeTy
throughout
Middle East oi
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ossibio in the defence of' our inters sts
and particularly in the defence of the
r ^ 0 support the American rerniest~ ynn t.^ through the
Middle East to India would be in accordanoo jp policy
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(a) 7e could ask for reciprocal facilities on U. S.
military airfields* which would be useful to us
in the Pacific and China*
(b) If the Americans are granted facilities in foreign
countries this would strengthen our case to
cotain at least similar concessions. In particular
this might assist our present negotiations with
Egypt.
(c) If we back the American r-.quest with foreign
countries we might reasonably expect them
to support any request of this sort which
we might wis to make to foreign governments
in the future.
(d) Cerbain additional facilities would be available
eitner ior our use or* at any rate, to augment
our own system.
5« On the other hand:-
(a) In countries where we are responsible for internal
oecurity wo could not accept any additional
coinmitmunt for safeguarding American personnel
ana property and there can bo no question
of them providing guards thornselvos. It will,
therefore, be necessary for the Americans to
use airfields which are garrisoned by us.
This may result in difficulties, overcrowding
and aernand for additional facilities in certain
ox the airfields.