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711.00111 Lic. Hanover Sales Corp./51/47: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Bullitt)

Washington, May 29, 1937—3 p.m.

246. Your No. 657, May 21, 11 a.m.62 Sherover’s attorneys called at the Department on May 27 and made formal application for an export license to authorize the shipment of the 20 planes to Société Française de Transports Aériens. They were informed of the Department’s position as stated in the Department’s No. 231 of May 20, 2 p.m. They stated that they would advise Sherover to ask the Société to ask the Foreign Office to inform you that the planes if exported to France would not be transshipped to Spain.63

Welles
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. However, on September 16, the Ambassador in France was informed by the Department that the planes had been sold in late July or August to an agent of the Chinese Government; on November 12, he was informed that they had been exported via England under authorization of a license naming China as their ultimate destination (711.00111 Lic. Hanover Sales Corp./51/59, 62).↩