811.348 Z 4/151: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Herrick)
280. Your 393, September 28, 1923. For your information. Navy Department states that Zeppelin is expected to start transatlantic flight on or about September 25 and that route will probably be over some part of France, Belgium, Holland, England and the Occupied Territory of Germany. It is also possible that Zeppelin may pass over Ireland and Canada.
You will approach Foreign Office and ask for authority for flight over French territory in the sense of your telegram under reference and of penultimate paragraph of memorandum as quoted in your 412, October 17, 1923.96 Authority requested should include flight over Occupied Territory of Germany.
London and Brussels are being similarly instructed.
Please report by telegraph.
- Not printed; in the paragraph referred to, the view was expressed that art. 5 of the Aerial Navigation Convention of Oct. 13, 1919, and protocol of May 1, 1920, amending art. 5, did not apply to the present question; see Malloy, Treaties, 1910–1923, vol. iii, pp. 3768 and 3817. The convention was not ratified by the United States.↩