811.71212/62

The Ambassador in Mexico (Morrow) to the Secretary of State

No. 493

Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s telegram No. 79 of March 24, 1928, 5 P.M., relating to the intention of the Postoffice Department of the United States to advertise for the operation of an airmail line from Brownsville, Texas, to Mexico City via Tampico and Veracruz, and in confirmation of my telegram No. 98 of March 31, 1928, 1 P.M.,44 I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy and translation of a communication received from the Foreign Office dated March 31, 1928, in response to the Embassy’s representations, stating in substance that under certain conditions the Government of Mexico perceives no objection to the contemplated advertisements.

I have [etc.]

Dwight W. Morrow
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[Enclosure—Translation]

The Mexican Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (Estrada) to the American Ambassador (Morrow)

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The Undersecretary of Foreign Relations in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Relations presents his compliments to His Excellency the Ambassador of the United States of America, and, with reference to his Note Verbale No. 257 of the 27th instant, has the honor to advise him that there is no objection whatever to the United States Post-Office Department’s advertising for the operation of an air-mail service from Brownsville, Texas, to Mexico City, via Tampico and Veracruz, provided this does not imply any financial obligation on the part of the Mexican Government for the maintenance of said service, and that it is used merely as a means for carrying the correspondence sent over that route.

It would be well to observe, in this respect, that the air route from Matamoros to Tampico has been given by concession to the Compañía Mexicana de Aviación, S. A.; that from Tampico to Tuxpam, to Mr. A. A. Zambrano; and that from Tampico to Veracruz, to Mr. Enrique Schoendube; therefore, only the route from Veracruz, to Mexico City remains free from any concession.

Genaro Estrada takes the liberty to suggest to His Excellency, Mr. Morrow, that it would be expedient for the postal authorities of the United States of America interested in the operation of the airmail route under reference, to get in touch with the Compañía Mexicana de Aviación, S. A., and Messrs. Zambrano and Schoendube, with a view to the establishment of said line.

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