811.79620 Boeing Airplane Co./27
The Minister in Colombia (Piles) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 16.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s Instruction No. 1036 of February 9, 1928, instructing me to request permission of the Colombian authorities for Mr. Ralph A. O’Neill, a representative of the Boeing Airplane Company and the Pratt and Whitney Motor Corporation, to fly in Colombia as well as the free entry of his equipment and to advise the Department that I have this day received a note from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs quoting Resolution No. 61 of April 11, 1928, of the Ministry of War, which grants Mr. O’Neill permission to fly in Colombian territory. Inasmuch as no reference was made with respect to the free entry of his equipment I am to-day again addressing the Foreign Office in the premises.
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