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in problematical whether or not we shall be able to get it.  At the behest of the Inter-Allied Aeronautical Commission, the German Dist passed a law prohibiting the manufacture of Zeppelins. This law will have to be changed. Next, the Inter-Allied Commission desires to see all plans of Zeppelin which is to be turned over to the United States. This, the Zeppelin people do not want to accord. Another question is whether the negotiations shall take place directly between the United States and the Zeppelin Company or through the German government, or through both the German government and the Inter-Allied Commission. All of this red tape will require a certain amount of time for solution, and we shall be greatly delayed in getting the ship, if we ever get it. 
  There are a good many other investigators working in Germany. Among them is Dr. Schutte who constructed rigid airships during the War, and who, it is understood, has now sold his patents to an American concern and will come to American to assist in the development of rigid airships. Dr. Rumpler, constructor of airplanes, is now working on airplanes to fly at a high altitude with a view to obtaining greater speeds with low fuel consumption.  In order to provide money to carry on his investigations he is building automobiles. Several others who are not so noted are also working. 

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