810.79611 Pan American Airways, Inc./619: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Guatemala (Geissler)
49. Your 106, August 19, 6 p.m. and 107, August 20, 11 a.m. It is evident that if Pan American Airways is to establish a two day service from Brownsville to the Canal Zone as planned it will be impracticable to change planes and crews at the Guatemalan border. This service is designed to handle mail from the eastern and central parts of the United States and would not necessarily compete with any other service covering the western part. The Department is assured that the Compañia Mexicana de Aviación will not run farther south than Guatemala [Page 580] City. The Department as you know does not ordinarily support foreign corporations even when all of the stock is American owned but in this case it has been decided after careful consideration that an exception is warranted for the reasons stated and because of the direct interest of the United States Post Office therein. You will therefore please make such representations to the Guatemalan Government as you consider appropriate to obtain permission for the Compañia Mexicana de Aviacion to bring the United States mails into Guatemala from Mexico.