Office of the Historian

815.248/35: Telegram

The Minister in Honduras (Lay) to the Secretary of State

Tegucigalpa, June 21, 1931—3 p.m.
[Received June 22—12:24 a.m.]

133. President of Honduras desires …, American aviator, to go to United States to buy a Waco airplane for Honduran Government. [Page 582] … to fly it to Tegucigalpa. Also purchase machine gun for this plane to be shipped by steamer. … desires to know whether he would be permitted to do this by American Government. Please rush answer.

Lay