812.24/509

The Mexican Ambassador (Téllez) to the Secretary of State

[Translation62]

Mr. Secretary: In compliance-with instructions from my Government I applied to Your Excellency in notes dated October 15 and November 30, 1926,63 respectively, requesting you to use your with influence the appropriate authorities of the Government of the United States to secure permission to export to Mexico eight the necessary accessories intended for the Mexican Army.

In your reply of the 16th of this month to the request contained in both notes, Your Excellency was pleased to state that the competent authorities of your Government had decided that it was not expedient under the present circumstances to permit the exportation of these airplanes and their equipment to Mexico. That decision was forwarded to my Government which has taken note of it.

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As a point extraneous from the subject of the contents of this note, Your Excellency is pleased to state in the last paragraph of your note of December 16, that the question of the maintenance of the embargo on the export of arms (to Mexico) is now being reconsidered by the Government of the United States. Being informed of the tenor of that paragraph in Your Excellency’s note my Government has instructed me, and I now have the honor to carry out its instruction, to thank Your Excellency for your courteous intimation that the question of the maintenance of the arms embargo is now being reconsidered by the Government of the United States. May I be permitted to add as a mere explanation that the Government of Mexico has neither now nor previously taken any steps with the Government of Your Excellency for maintaining or lifting the arms embargo which was spontaneously ordered by the Government of the United States.

Kindly accept [etc.]

Manuel Téllez
  1. File translation revised.
  2. Latter not printed.