711.00111 Lic.Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc./93/127

The Secretary of State to the Chinese Ambassador (C. T. Wang)

The Secretary of State presents his compliments to His Excellency the Chinese Ambassador and, with reference to a conversation between [Page 604] the Counselor of the Chinese Embassy and the Chief of the Office of Arms and Munitions Control on June 24, 1938, regarding the desire of the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., to export three Douglas DCā€“3 commercial passenger transport airplanes to Outer Mongolia, has the honor to inform him that license No. 2412 was issued to the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., on June 27, 1938, authorizing the exportation of two of these aircraft to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for reexport to Urga, Outer Mongolia, China, and that the country of destination of another aircraft, for the export of which to the Netherlands a license was issued to the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., on January 28, 1938, has been changed to show that the aircraft will be reexported to Urga, Outer Mongolia, China.93

  1. On September 23 the Secretary of State informed the Chinese Ambassador that a license for the export of six such aircraft to Urga had been issued to the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., on September 22.ā†©