711.6227/5
The German Ambassador (Prittwitz) to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency’s valued note 811.7961/27 of the 12th instant,26 and of a draft of a convention between the United States and Canada concerning the settlement of questions about civil air navigation, and in provisional answer thereto to express my Government’s readiness to conclude a similar agreement for the purpose of bringing about the reciprocal recognition of air worthiness for aircraft by way of an exchange of notes.
Inasmuch as the draft communicated by Your Excellency concerning the recognition of air worthiness certificates contemplates the settlement of further questions of the present international air navigation, I venture to hold in reserve any statement of position until I receive instructions from my Government on the subject.
Accept [etc.]