810.79611 Pan American Airways, Inc./740: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:25 p.m.]
361. Department’s 301, November 19, 10 a.m.49 Foreign Office states that the competent authorities have now sent instructions to the [Page 610] Governor of Jamaica who has been informed that temporary permission has been granted to Pan American Airways to make a survey flight to Jamaica from Cuba with a view to examining the desirability of establishing an air service to Jamaica to land, re-fuel and make minor repairs on the Islands and, if awarded the contract by the United States Post Office, to deliver United States mail to Jamaica. The Foreign Office adds that the Governor has been instructed to issue a special and temporary authorization for these purposes under article 27, (2), of the air navigation (colonies, protectorates and mandated territories) order of 1927, subject to such conditions as he may consider necessary to impose.