Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Francis Deak, R. D. McClelland, Minister of Luxembourg Hughes Le Gallais, Victor Bodson, and Lambert Dupong
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OCR Page 1 of 7DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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Memorandum of Conversation
DATE:
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April 8,1952
SUBJECT:
Luxembourg Air Transport Agreement
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PARTICIPANTS:
The Secretary
AV - Mr. Deak
WE - Mr. McClelland
Mr. Victor Bodson, Luxembourg Minister of Transport
COPIES TO:
Mr. Lambert Dupong, Director, LUXAIR
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Mr. Hugues Le Gallais, Luxembourg Minister to Washington
COPIES TO:
S
WE
EUR
Amembassy, Paris (for Regional Air Attache)
RA
Amlegation, Luxembourg
AV
u. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
16-61120-1
Mr. Bodson addressed hirself without preliminaries to the problem
of "our (air) trunk line". He enumerated in chronological order the
various notes and memoranda exchanged between the Luxembourg Govern-
ment and our Government on an air transport agreement prior to his
brief talk with me during the Ottawa NAC meeting of September 1951.
Coming to the Department's last reply to Luxembourg of November 15,
1951, Mr. Bodson underlined our statement that we did not consider an
agreement with Luxembourg justified on economic grounds "for the time
being".
Stating that "a lot of new issues have arisen since November 1951",
Mr. Bodson launched into the argument of "political discrimination".
Luxembourg could not understand, he declared, why the U.S. did not
grant them what we had given all the other NATO countries; and not only
NATO members, but also such "unimportant" countries as Iceland, Lebanon,
and certain Caribbean states. He stressed that Luxembourg was land-
locked. If it were a maritime country, and had a harbor, would we deny
our ships access to its port? He went on to emphasize the economic
importance of Luxembourg. Last year had produced more than
3 million tons of steel, while the value of its total exports had been
from 5 to 600 million dollars.
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