Office of the Historian

811.348 Z 4/167: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Whitehouse)

Washington, October 3, 1924—6 p.m.

314. Your 421, September 29, noon. Inform Foreign Office that Embassy Berlin is informally advised that airship will not fly any flag in course of its flight over French territory.

Department assumes that on above understanding and avoidance of seaports mentioned in your 416, September 25, 3 p.m., Zeppelin is now free to cross French territory on its Transatlantic flight.

Please confirm telegraphically.7

Hughes
  1. On Oct. 4, 1 p.m., the Chargé telegraphed that the airship was now free to cross French territory (file no. 811.348 Z 4/172).↩