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336 The Swedish Embassy to the Department of State

EMBASSY OF SWEDEN WASHINGTON 8, D. C.

The Government of Sweden understands that the experimental period of three years, referred to in the exchange of notes, dated August 6, 1954 between the Chargé d'affaires ad interim of Sweden and the Secretary of State, relating to the establishment of an air route between Sweden and the United States by way of Greenland, applies to an airline or airlines designated by the Government of the United States as well as to an airline or airlines designated by the Swedish Government to operate the air route involved, the experimental period to run concurrently for any such Swedish and United States airline or airlines. In view of rights already granted to the United States in the Air Transport Agreement effected by an exchange of notes signed at Washington on December 16, 1944, as amended effective December 4, 1945, the expiration of the experimental period as applied to an airline or airlines of the United States will not result in the expiration of any of the traffic rights granted in those agreements.

Furthermore, it is the understanding of the Government of Sweden that the Government of the United States is agreeable to the designated Swedish airline or airlines carrying socalled third and fourth freedom traffic Stockholm-Edmonton and vice versa, if and when the Canadian Government's consent may be obtained. S. Washington, D. C., August 6, 1954 No. 3014