711.6527/21
The Italian Ambassador ( De Martino ) to the Secretary of State
My Dear Secretary: I beg to refer to Your Excellency’s note of June 12, 1929, in regard to the contemplated agreement between the United States and Italy and the reciprocal recognition of pilot licenses and of air worthiness certificates issued by the two Governments, and I also wish to refer to the conversations held at the Department by Count Marchetti, Counselor of this Embassy, and Mr. Vitetti, First Secretary, on this subject.
I am now in a position to state that the Italian Government considers [Page 530] the text of the agreement proposed between the United States and Canada regarding aerial navigation—enclosed in the above mentioned note—as apt to constitute the basis of the agreement. My Government, however, wishes to make the following propositions:
- 1)
- for the reasons which Your Excellency has fully appreciated in the above cited note, the length of the period for which authority is reciprocally granted to the pilots should be established to six months with faculty of extension;
- 2)
- the reciprocity treatment should be adopted also for what concerns the documents of test accompanying motorless aircraft or isolated engines or parts both of the aircraft and of the motor.
In case Your Excellency approves these points as proposed by my Government, I would be very much obliged to Your Excellency for causing your Department to prepare a draft taking them into consideration and to transmit it to me, so that I may obtain from my Government definite authority to conclude the agreement.
Accept [etc.]