819.6341P19/40
The Minister in Panama (South) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 7.]
Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith copy of a note which I have addressed to the Acting Secretary of Foreign Relations28 in accordance with the directions contained in the third paragraph of the Department’s instruction No. 791 of September 14, 1929, with further reference to the control by the United States of radio communications in Panama and to Article 10 of the contract of the Panaman Government with the Panama Corporation, Limited, of April 11, 1929, authorizing that Company to establish radio stations in this republic.
In the last paragraph of the Department’s instruction the Legation was directed to report any relevant information which might be communicated to it by the American military and naval authorities concerning the station which the Panaman Government wishes to erect on the island of Coiba. In this connection I enclose a copy of a letter addressed to the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim by the Governor of the Panama Canal on June 27, 1929,28 from which it would appear that the military and naval authorities are awaiting a request from the Department, presumably through the War and Navy Departments, before submitting their views. I assume that the Department is taking the matter up with the War and Navy Departments in Washington and that the reports of the military and naval authorities in the Canal Zone will be made to those Departments.
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