Office of the Historian

811.348 Z 4/167: Telegram

The Chargé in France (Whitehouse) to the Secretary of State

Paris, September 29, 1924—noon.
[Received September 29—8:50 a.m.]

421. Your 300, September 26, 3 p.m. French Government granted permission on the basis of two assumptions, one of which was incorrect. On being informed that Zeppelin could not fly the American flag permission was again subject to review. I am now in receipt of a note dated September 27 replying memorandum of this Embassy in which Foreign Office states that it must be understood that the airship will not fly any flag in the course of its flight over French territory.

Naval attaché has informed Captain Steele.

Whitehouse