820.7961 Dept. of Commerce Flight/24
The Ambassador in Cuba (Judah) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 5.]
Sir: I have the honor to quote below the text of a telegram dated June 25, five p.m., 1928 today received from the American Ambassador at Buenos Aires:
“Lieutenant James Doolittle, who has been visiting various South American countries for the purpose of demonstrating Curtiss aeroplanes and regarding whom you may have received instructions from the Department, asks me to inform you that he proposes to leave here about July 22 in a Curtiss Hawk aeroplane on a flight from Buenos Aires to New York. As he plans to stop at Cienfuegos for fuel enroute from Colon to New York he requests you to obtain permission from the Cuban Government to land and fly in Cuba and also customs courtesies.”
The Embassy, not having received any previous information concerning the flight of Lieutenant Doolittle, I respectfully request instructions whether I should ask the Cuban Government to accord permission for the aviator to land in this Republic and to extend special customs courtesies to him.
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