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823.248/6–2044

The Ambassador in Peru (White) to the Secretary of State

[Extract]
No. 645
Lima, June 20, 1944.
[Received June 28.]

Sir: I have the honor to refer to previous commentaries on Lend-Lease equipment supplied by United States governmental agencies to Peru and to report the arrival on the 19th instant of 28 training airplanes piloted by Peruvians who had proceeded to the United States for the purpose of obtaining possession of these craft.

It may be of possible interest to the Department to be informed that, although the approach of these planes was heralded in the local press and their arrival witnessed by President Prado and General Melgar,11 the fact of their having been obtained through the munificence of the United States has received not the least mention.

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Respectfully yours,

For the Ambassador:
Jefferson Patterson

Counselor of Embassy
  1. Gen. Fernando Melgar, Minister of Aeronautics.↩