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61 STAT.] FRANCE-AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES- Dec 28,29 1945 Mar. 27,1946 Translation Ministry of Foreign Affairs FRENCH REPUBLIO PARIS, December 29, 1945 MR. AMBASSADOR: Your Excellency has been so good as to send me, under the date of yesterday, the following letter: [For the English text of the Ambassador's note, of which a French translation is quoted herein, see page 3474, and for an English translation of the remainder of this note from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the exception of the final paragraph, see below.] Please accept, Mr. Ambassador, the assurances of my very high consideration. For the Minister of Foreign Affairs and by Delegation Ambassador of France General Secretary of the Ministry of ForeignAffairs J. CHAUVEL His Excellency JEFFERSON CAFFERY Ambassador of the United States Paris The American Ambassador to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Paris,December 29, 1945 No. 1028 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to Your Excellency's letter of today's date quoting my letter of December 28 on the subject of air trans- port services between the United States and France and adding the following: "I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that pending the conclusion of a new general agreement on this matter, the French Government is quite disposed, with reference to the Arrangement for the Operation of Air Transport Services dated July 15, 1939, to grant to United States air carriers the right to pick up and dis- charge, in international traffic, passengers, mail and cargo at Paris and Marseille on the above-mentioned routes, under the following conditions. Ante, p. 3474 . Grant by French Government of desig- nated rights. 63 Stat. 2422 . 3477