812.24/477
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador (Téllez)
Excellency: With further relation to Your Embassy’s note of October 15, 1926, in which it was stated that your Government was negotiating with the Douglas Company of Los Angeles, California, for the purchase of eight aeroplanes of the type used by the United States army, together with equipment for bombardment, photography, electrical installation, et cetera, I now have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s note of November 30,61 in which you ask that I bring my influence to bear on the proper authorities to the end that the Collector of Customs at Nogales, Arizona, be instructed to allow the said aeroplanes, together with their equipment, to be exported to Mexico.
I regret to have to inform Your Excellency that the competent authorities of this Government have decided that it is not expedient under the present circumstances to permit the exportation of these aeroplanes and their equipment to Mexico.
Furthermore, I may say, that the general question of the maintenance of the arms embargo is at this time being reconsidered by my Government.
Accept [ect.]
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