At last Cabinet meeting it was noted that the United Nations
requirement for the expulsion of Spain from specialised agencies
must have a detrimental effect on the work of those agencies. You
are of course aware of the difficulty created at the first
Assembly of I.C.A.O. in expulsion of Spain and it is certainly
anomalous that Spain is not permitted to belong to this technical
body (one of the prime objectives of which is to achieve
standardisation and safety in air transport) although member
States do in fact have airlines operating to and through Spanish
territory. I would like you to bear these disabilities in mind and
consider whether an appropriate opportunity could be taken to
bring about a change that would permit technical organisations
such as I.C.A.O. to achieve the widest possible membership.