811.79690/Pan American Airways/63
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 15.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to despatch No. 163 of May 14, 1936, to the Department from the Embassy at Nanking,2 with regard to the delay of the Portuguese Government in authorizing the exchange of air mail at Macau between planes of the China National Aviation Corporation and planes of the Pan American Airways, and to enclose a copy (received at Peiping May 19) of a memorandum of a conversation2 which took place on April 18, 1936, at Nanking, between the Counselor of Embassy and Mr. Harold Bixby, Director of the China National Aviation Corporation, in which Mr. Bixby expressed the surmise that the delay of the Portuguese Government was the result of pressure exerted by the British Government and that the New York office of Pan American Airways had learned that the British authorities would continue such pressure until the Chinese Government should give the British Imperial Airways the right to fly its planes over Chinese territory.
Respectfully yours,