Office of the Historian

810.79611 Tri-Motors Safety Airways/120: Circular telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Cuba (Reed)73

Washington, September 18, 1929—4 p.m.

Please request permission, also free entry, contingent upon reexportation for six Sikorsky airplanes and four Commodore airplanes belonging to New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Lines, Incorporated, a subsidiary of Tri-Motors Safety Airways, to fly over and land in Cuba. Please expedite reply.

Stimson

  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date to the diplomatic representatives in Haiti; France, with respect to Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana; Great Britain, with respect to British Guiana, Dominica, and Trinidad; and the Netherlands, with respect to Dutch Guiana.

    Favorable replies were received by cable from the diplomatic representatives in Cuba (No. 97, September 24), Haiti (No. 71, October 4), and the Netherlands (No. 133, October 10).

    For attitude of the French Government, see telegram No. 449, September 25, 2 p.m., from the Chargé in France, infra.

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