CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919 — Page 504

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I have the honour to refer you to the Report of the Imperial Wireless Telegraphy Committee 1919-1920 which was presented to Parlia ment in June last as Command Paper 777, and a copy of which was sent to you in the usual form on the 19th August, and to inform you that His Majesty's Government have now given their care- ful attention to the proposals set forth in that Report.

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Subject to their being satisfied as to the practicability from the technical point of view, of carrying out the Imperial Wireless Scheme without the use (or with the use at reasonable cost) of certain master patents which the Marconi Company claim to be indispensable, His Majesty's Government are on their part,now prepared to adopt the recommendations as stated in pages 27 and 28 of the Report.

3. With regard to foreign countries, His Majesty's Government accept the Committee's recommendation that long distances wireless communications should be left to private enter- prise, and that licences, if desired, for the erection of stations for such communications, should be issued to commercial companies under suitable conditions, a special Committee being appointed to decided the issue of licences in so far as the United Kingdom is concerned.. E OFFICERS ADMINISTERING E GOVERNMENT OF

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