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 ;1 STAT.] MEXICO-WEATHER STATIONS-J y 14 1943 4057 June 14, 1943 4057 Translation MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS UNITED MEXICAN STATES MEXICO 54229 MEXICO CITY, June 14, 1943. MR. AMBASSADOR: In reply to Your Excellency's courteous note No. 1271 of May 18 Ante, p.4053. last and with reference to my note No. 53859 ['] of the 2nd of the present month of June, I am happy to inform you that the Government of Mexico is agreeable to nine weather stations being established for the purpose of furnishing, daily, reports useful for better safeguarding military and air transportation operations. Therefore, the Government of the United States may, whenever it sees fit, send to Mexico City the Weather Bureau official to whom Your Excellency's note refers, for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements with the proper authorities of the Government of Mexico - in this case the Ministry of Agriculture - in connection with everything relative to the location of the said stations, the cooperation which the United States Weather Bureau will extend in the way of furnishing the equipment for the functioning thereof, and the sending, if considered advisable, of one or more experts to instruct the Mexican personnel who will be in charge of the stations in question. The salary of this personnel will be covered by the Government of Mexico. As an enclosure with this note I transmit to Your Excellency a memorandum containing various information which the Ministry of Agriculture and Development has supplied to the Ministry of Foreign Relations relative to this matter. I avail myself of the opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. E. PADILLA Enclosure. His Excellency GEORGE S. MESSERSMITH, Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, City. [Not printed.]

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