Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/5316b

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)1

[Telegram]
Washington, June 13, 1917, 6 p.m.

4992. For your information, Maj. Raynal C. Boiling, of the United States Army Air Service, a member of the United States Aircraft Production Board, is ordered to proceed to England, France, and Italy to arrange with the proper representatives of the Allied air services a joint program for construction of airplanes and engines and all other industrial aspects of the aeronautical situation. He has full authority to consider and negotiate with the representatives of the Allied air services regarding a joint program for the construction of airplanes and engines and other means by which the Allied nations may render mutual assistance to each other in any industrial aspects of the aeronautical situation, and to report thereupon to the Secretary of War for approval on behalf of the United States of America.

Lansing
  1. The same telegram was sent, June 13, to the Ambassador in France (No. 2348) and the Ambassador in Italy (No. 834).↩