CONFIDENTIAL
chance of hieving
objective for air services
In the
Me Sprast who in relictall to acest pula constusion circumstances they would like to take the opportunity of
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didown the matter wil
Mr Sproatis forthcoming visit to put their case to you again.
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Mr Sproat will probably be accompanied for this purpose by
Stevens (CAIR).
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In the meantime DOT propose to approve the existing level
of Tianjin/Nanjing services up to the end of October, by which
time a further round of talks with CAAC should have taken place.
We shall be telegraphing separately to Peking, copied to you,
a draft of a new letter from Stevens to Lu dealing with this
point and also answering points raised by Lu with Atkinson
(Peking telno.279).
WP