811.79620 Boeing Airplane Co./29
The Minister in Ecuador (Boding) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 23.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s instruction No. 574, dated February 9, 1928,8 instructing the Legation to request the Ecuadorean authorities to grant Mr. Ralph A. O’Neill permission to fly in Ecuador, in the interest of the Boeing Airplane Company and the Pratt and Whitney Motor Corporation, and to enclose, herewith, a copy and translation of the reply of the Ecuadorean Ministry for Foreign Relations9 to the Legation’s informal note sent in compliance with the Department’s instruction.
It will be noted that the request to fly in Ecuador is granted and that orders extending all possible facilities to Captain O’Neill will be issued.
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