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  FOREIGN SERVICE COMMITTEE AERO CLUB OF AMERICA
            
                                         42, FAUBOURG POISSONIÉRE  

                    CABLE ADDRESS{NELVEIT-PARIS
                                 {AEROCLUB-NEW YORK      TÉL. : CENTRAL 29-11
 
                          
Hon. Hugh C. Wallace                            PARIS 2nd June, 1919
 [Strikethrough]HON.W. G. SHARP.[anti strikethrough] Hon. Chairman
  [Strikethrough]LAURENCE V.BENET.  Chairman[anti strikethrough]
  SIDNEY B. VEIT. Hon Secretary
    JOHN WEARE, Treasurer
     ROBERT WOODS BLISS
       WILLIAM S. HOGAN                Commander READ,
       DR.A. L. HIPWELL                   Naval Headquarters,                                
      LOUIS D. BEAUMONT                    4, Place d'Iéna,PARIS.
       RAYMOND B. PRICE        

       MAJOR E. L. GROS
      MAJOR WILLIAM THAW        Dear Commander Read,
      G. F. CAMPBELL-WOOD    

                                Through Admiral knapp the committee received your delightful message for which kindly accept the Committee's best thanks. It was the intention of the Committee to get into touch with you during your stay to-morrow, and if it at all possible, we would be very much honoured with your visit during the Committee's meeting Wednesday afternoon at 5 o' clock at the Aero Club of France, 35 Rue François Premier, when the Committee would be pleased to extend to you its personal congratulations.   

                                 In case you cannot favour us with a visit Wednesday,would you please let us know a few days in advance, of your second trip to Paris, so that a banquet could be arranged in your honour, and in the honour of your colleagues, who accompanied you on your memorable N.C.4.   

                            With kind regards,
                                             Believe, me,
                                                        Yours very sincerely,
 
                                                              SIDNEY B. VIET.

                                                   [Sidney B Viet signature]