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    "ocrText": "(48th Meeting)\nMexican Government so desires. In addition, copies of all photo-\ngraphs taken of Mexican territory will be given to the Mexican\nGovernment, and no copies of photographs of Mexican territory will\nbe given to any other party. That is the gist of this memorandum,\nand we request you transmit it to the Department of National Defense\nwith, I hope, a favorable recommendation on your part.\"\nFurther referring to Paragraph 3 of the memorandum under\ndiscussion, General Henry said: \"As you remember, in all our other\nMexican mapping we had to have ground parties; but in this border\ncase there would be no necessity for the same.\"\n3.\nCAVALRY REGIMENT.\nGeneral Henry: \"This matter of a Cavalry Regiment I am\nbringing up principally as a matter of interest. I am presenting\nthis memorandum to the Mexican Section, of which I will read only\nportions. For the information of the United States Section, I wish\nto say that there are approximately twenty (20) regiments of Cavalry\nin the Mexican Army, and thruout the larger countries of Latin America\nthere is a very large percentage of Cavalry connected with their armed\nforces. Therefore, the larger countries of Latin America are extremely\ninterested in equipping their regiments in the most efficient manner\nunder modern conditions; and this is the main reason why I am sub-\nmitting this information to the Mexican Section.\"\nAfter listening to General Henry's remarks and his quota-\ntions from the memorandum in question, General Cabrera stated that\nthis seemed to him to be a very good organization, taking into account\ntheir lack of good roads and motor transportation, and that, with the\nheavy weapons indicated, this organization would have good fire power.\nGeneral Henry added that, in addition to having great fire power, the\nmobility of the cavalry would not be curtailed, and he further remarked\nthat the horse cavalry worked well in coordination with motorized cavalry\nas long as the terrain made it possible for the two types of cavalry to\ntravel together; but that otherwise they did not.\n(Note: the memorandum on this subject was accompanied by\nproposed Tables of Organization and Equipment.)\n4.\nAIR-SEA RESCUE.\nA memorandum, accompanied by maps, was submitted to the\nMexican Section on the subject \"Air-Sea Rescue\". General Henry pointed\nout that this referred principally, of course, to airplane rescue work.\nHe added: \"You frequently see unfortunate airplane accidents both north\nand south of the border. At present we do not have any good working\nagreement with Mexico in cases of airplane accidents which might happen\noff the beaten path of the north-south airways. We have flight agree-\nments for military aircraft on certain north-south airways and there\nwould be little difficulty to send in rescue crews along these airways.\nUnder present agreement all we would have to do is to file a flight plan\nwith the nearest control office on the other side of the border; but\neast or west we have no plan which would function expeditiously. In\nthose cases we must go to the Mexican Embassy here in Washington, and\n-2-"
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