711.00111 Lic. Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc./93/124

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Office of Arms and Munitions Control (Green)

I called the Chinese Embassy by telephone yesterday afternoon intending to request the Chinese Ambassador to come to see me in order to discuss with him the matter of the three DCā€“3 commercial passenger transport airplanes which the Douglas Aircraft Company, Incorporated, desires to export to Outer Mongolia. Mr. Ing, Counselor of the Embassy, told me that the Ambassador was out of town and would be away several days. I therefore asked him to call.

Mr. Ing called this morning.

I explained the situation to him, emphasizing particularly that, if the necessary export license were not issued, the only practical effect would probably be that an American manufacturer would lose the business and that planes would be purchased in some other country and sent to Outer Mongolia without the permission, and perhaps even without the knowledge, of his Government. I said that, in view of the situation which had arisen, the Department proposed to issue the necessary export license unless we were informed within the next few days that his Government objected to its issuance.

Mr. Ing said that he did not believe that his Government had any objection and that, if the Ambassador approved, he proposed to inform me by telephone on Monday that the Embassy had nothing to say further than that it had received no instructions in the premises.

It was obvious from what Mr. Ing said that he personally approved the procedure which I had suggested and that he hoped that the necessary export license would be issued.

J[oseph] C. G[reen]