Office of the Historian

500.A16/51: Telegram

The American Representative on the Special Commission (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

Geneva, August 27, 1928—noon.
[Received August 27—9:12 a.m.]

1. Article V of your draft of treaty discussing category III appears to limit “civil aircraft” to those “manufactured under military specifications.” Examination of Traffic in Arms Convention discloses no such limitation and I would appreciate analysis of Department’s views in this matter. I have requested Yount59 to proceed from Paris to advise me on this and other questions.

I assume that full publicity concerning aircraft is made by our Government departments. If this is so could we not safely promise full publicity on “civil aviation” without limitation?

Address Ammission.

Wilson
  1. Major Burton K. Yount, assistant military attaché for air, American Embassy, Paris.↩