811.71212/60
The Second Assistant Postmaster General ( Glover ) to the Assistant Secretary of State ( White )
My Dear Mr. Secretary: Following up our telephone conversation of today, I am asking if it will be possible for the State Department to find out, through its diplomatic channels, whether the approval of the Mexican Government could not be obtained for the operation of an Air Mail line from Brownsville, Texas, to Mexico City, via Tampico and Vera Cruz.
The Post Office Department is very anxious to include an advertisement for such a route in the advertisements for two other routes’ to Central and South America which it will shortly put out, using the authority given to the Postmaster General under the recent legislation passed, known as HR 7213.
The Department is very shortly to ask the Director of the Budget for an appropriation and, of course, if it is going to be possible to [Page 324] include the Mexican route in this group of Air Mail routes to the countries south of us, this Department would be more than glad to include that advertisement along with the others which are so shortly to be put out.
Will be more than glad to receive an answer to this letter at the early convenience of your good self through the State Department.
I am [etc.]