810.7962/4: Telegram
The Chairman of the American Delegation (Hull) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 2:03 a.m.]
83. Your 117, December 23, 10 a.m. Conference at plenary session this afternoon unanimously passed our resolution which had been modified in committee discussions to the following form:
“That as soon as possible and before the Commercial Conference at Buenos Aires there should be studied by a commission composed in the form and at the place to be decided by the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, the means of further accelerating inter-American aviation by the establishment of a continuous line of radio stations, beacons, and airports along present air lines and others which may be deemed convenient and to determine what additional methods should be considered in order to obtain more rapid inter-American aerial communication.”
Although our original resolution had specified Washington as the place the sense of the delegations here was that the naming of the place be left to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union which we felt we could not oppose, particularly as it was evident there was no objection to Washington.
Furthermore, Wright in an extended address before this afternoon’s plenary session called attention to the necessity for cooperative action to expedite air communication and the possibility of cutting down thereby the Buenos Aires–New York running time from 8 to 5 days and stated the willingness of our Government to lend aid along the lines mentioned in the White House statement for further reducing running time.