811.79620 Boeing Airplane
Co./22
The Ambassador in Peru (Poindexter) to the Secretary of
State
Lima, March 12,
1928.
[Received April 3.]
No. 907
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the
Department’s cable No. 9, February 8, 3 P.M.,6 and to acknowledge the Department’s
Instruction No. 415 of February 9, 1923,7 relative to Captain
Ralph A. O’Neill, representing the Boeing Airplane Company of
Seattle, Washington, and the Pratt and Whitney Motor Corporation of
Hartford, Connecticut, who sailed on the Southern
Cross on February 11, 1928, for Rio de Janeiro for an
experimental flight and demonstration before the Brazilian Army and
Navy Air Service. In accordance with the Department’s instructions,
free entry was requested from the Peruvian Government for the planes
and equipment of Captain O’Neill as well as permission for a flight
over Peruvian soil, and in reply a Note was received from the
Foreign Office by the Embassy under date of February 23, 1928, a
copy of which in Spanish, together with an English translation, is
enclosed herewith for the Department’s information.
I have [etc.]
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[Enclosure—Translation]
The Peruvian Minister for Foreign
Affairs (Rada) to the American
Ambassador (Poindexter)
Lima, February 23,
1928.
No. 13
Mr. Ambassador: I have had the honor of
receiving Your Excellency’s courteous Note Number 463 of the
14th of the present month in which you inform me, under
instructions from your Government, that Captain Ralph A.
O’Neill, representative of the Boeing Airplane Company of
Seattle, Washington, and the Pratt and Whitney Motor Corporation
of Hartford, Connecticut, has gone to Brazil to make
experimental flights before the representatives of the Army and
Navy of that country.
Your Excellency has been pleased to add that Captain O’Neill
desires to make a visit to Peru with the same intention and
therefore Your Excellency has asked my Government for the
appropriate permission for such flights on Peruvian territory
and the free entry of the equipment which Captain O’Neill is
bringing with him.
In reply I take pleasure in informing Your Excellency that my
Government will be happy to receive the visit of Captain O’Neill
and will give him the permission which Your Excellency requests,
all the facilities which he needs for the successful
accomplishment of his purpose, and free entry for the equipment
above mentioned. To this end I have addressed the Ministers of
War, Navy, and Finance.
I take [etc.]
