The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Navy ( Daniels )
Washington , November 19, 1914.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of November 7, 1914, transmitting a copy of regulations and instructions prepared in your Department, which it is proposed to substitute for previous regulations governing radio communication that are now in force, as a consequence of the President’s Executive Order of August 5, 1914.
In reply I have the honor to state that the Department is not in a position to determine the practical or technical questions involved in these regulations, but assumes that the experience of the Navy Department in supervising radio communication since August 5 last has shown the advisability and desirability of the proposed new regulations. From the point of view of our foreign relations no objection to the proposed regulations occurs to the Department at the present time.
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