815.00 Revolutions/71: Telegram
The Manager in Honduras of the United Fruit Company ( Turnbull ) to the United Fruit Company
“Our planes have not been used by Government for reconnoitering purposes over any zone other than regular passenger route. Planes have carried a few military and civil Government employees as regular pay passengers over our regular route. Planes have refused to carry Government officials to zone of trouble also refused to transport rifles and arms for the Government. Planes have also carried American Legation and Naval Officers over regular route. American Legation has seen foregoing and confirms it. We have and will keep in constant touch with American Legation regarding all our operations. Suggest we dismantle two of our planes and keep one strictly for company use and for American Legation mail etc.”
- Received May 7, 1931, by the Boston office of the United Fruit Company. Left at the Department May 7, 1931, by Lester H. Woolsey, attorney for the United Fruit Company.↩