825.796/27
The Acting Secretary of State to the Pan American Airways, Inc.
Sirs: The Department has received your letter of October 16 answering its communication of October 13 and notes that it will be several months before you can undertake negotiations with the Chilean Government looking to the extension of your service beyond Peru unless it is felt by the State Department to be of vital importance to begin these negotiations sooner. In reply the Department desires to inform you that from information which it has received from the Embassy at Santiago as reported to you in the Department’s letter of October 13 it would appear that the possibility of your reaching a satisfactory agreement with the Chilean Government may be seriously jeopardized through any considerable delay on your part in undertaking negotiations and the Department does feel that it is of great importance that these negotiations be undertaken at an early date, or at least that the [Page 810] Chilean Government be given some assurance that an extension of your operations to Chile is seriously contemplated in the near future.
I am [etc.]
Assistant Secretary