Office of the Historian

811.79620 Boeing Airplane Co./20: Telegram

The Ambassador in Chile (Collier) to the Secretary of State

Santiago, March 8, 1928—1 p.m.
[Received 5:30 p.m.]

38. Application for customs free entry aeroplane and accessories Captain O’Neill denied but will be admitted under bond canceled upon leaving Chile. Expect the same response similar application for Lieutenant Wade,3 grounds commercial undertaking. Have not requested customs free entry for Curtiss aeroplanes and accessories as Department did not so instruct but believe Chilean Government would also treat as commercial venture. Have advised Wade, Lima; Doolittle,4 La Paz; and Somers5 and O’Neill, Rio de Janeiro, accordingly.

Collier
  1. Lt. Leigh Wade, representative of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation; see pp. 811 ff.↩
  2. Lt. James Doolittle, with Department of Commerce experimental and path-finding flight to South America; see pp. 811 ff.↩
  3. Presumably James D. Summers, aeronautical trade commissioner of the Department of Commerce for Latin America.↩