SOLD Harry Truman Appoints a Minister to Negotiate an Air Transport Treaty
The document is countersigned by Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
As the major power remaining after World War II, the U.S. was in a position to largely dictate the terms of international air transportation. With the 1944 multilateral Chicago Air Transport Convention providing a framework, in 1946 the U.S. proceeded to negotiate a landmark agreement with the U.K. That agreement, executed in...
As the major power remaining after World War II, the U.S. was in a position to largely dictate the terms of international air transportation. With the 1944 multilateral Chicago Air Transport Convention providing a framework, in 1946 the U.S. proceeded to negotiate a landmark agreement with the U.K. That agreement, executed in Bermuda, provided for the bilateral exchange of traffic rights on agreed terms.
The Bermuda-type agreement then became the template for many bilateral air transport agreements. The countries in South America were among those approached to negotiate treaties on this subject.
Document Signed, Washington, November 8, 1946, appointing William Mitchell “my personal representative with the rank of minister” to meet and confer with the government of Peru, and to thus “negotiate, conclude and sign an air transport agreement” with that government. The document is countersigned by Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
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