711.00111 Lic.Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc./93/121
Memorandum of Conservation, by the Chief of the Office of Arms and Munitions Control (Green)
Major Victor E. Bertrandias, Export Sales Manager of the Douglas Aircraft Company, Incorporated, called at my office this morning. He said that the statement which Mr. Mock made to me on May 31, in regard to the efforts of the Douglas representative in Hong Kong to persuade the Chinese Government to instruct its Ambassador in Washington to inform the Department that it desired that a license be issued authorizing the exportation of three planes to Outer Mongolia, were based on a telegram received from Hong Kong. He said that, since my conversation with Mr. Mock, Douglas had received a letter from its agent in Hong Kong which told in considerable detail of his conversations in Hankow and of his failure to persuade the Chinese Government to take action. To the utter astonishment of the Douglas agent, and according to the agent to the utter astonishment of our Ambassador,88 the Chinese had said that they would not request that a license be issued authorizing the exportation of the planes to Outer Mongolia and had added a suggestion that this Government obtain assurances from the Soviet Government that the latter had no objection to the importation of these planes into Outer Mongolia and, if such assurances were received, that it proceed to issue the necessary license.
- Nelson T. Johnson.↩