711.00111 Lic. Hanover Sales Corp./51/40: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 19—1:40 p.m.]
644. Embassy’s telegram 637, May 18, noon.61 Sherover showed the Embassy documents canceling his contract with Air France for the purchase of 30 [20?] Bellanca planes model 28/90 on the ground that he had been unable to make delivery on the time agreed on. Air France in a letter to Sherover recommended the Société Française de Transports Aériens as a possible purchaser of this aviation equipment. He also showed an exchange of correspondence under which he contracted to sell to that company the above planes at a price of $45,000 each for immediate delivery, payment to be made cash against documents f. o. b. New York. He also exhibited a copy of a letter addressed by him to the French Air Ministry inquiring whether the above company was authorized to purchase this aviation equipment and a letter from the Ministry stating that the company was so qualified.
- Not printed; it reported that Sherover, then in France, had sold 15 Bellance planes to the Soctété Française de Transports Aériens (711.00111 Lic. Hanover Sales Corp./51/38).↩