Feb, Ka, Val Ae 9,1929 Browning, 5 Rue de Cheudfontaine, Liege, Belgium, R6¢ Dear Browning Rifle Val: Yoon reeeipt of your cable repl y to be made in foreign countries with in I got J*h. busy, the effect that application shou ld a year of application made in Amer ica, As stated in my letter of yesterda y, no agreement has been entered into with Colt's, but in the tentative draf t which they submitted, provision is made for J.f, Browning to take care of patents in continental Euro pe excluding Turkey, Thinking that petent rights should not be lost thry delay of the agreement, am sending you a duplicate scopy of the applicat ion togewith thdraw er ings which Colt's filed with the United States Commissioner of Patents, This was furnished Uncle £d by the Colt's Company. Thinking that it Fabrique Nationale would facilitate matters to give you or rights to make application for the various the the patents, I have drawn up two assignments whic h am enclosing in duplicate. One of these assignments is made to the Fabr ique Nationale and the other is made to yourself. You may take your choice of which way you would prefer to handle it, Whichever assignee is decided upon, would Suggest that you get reassignment for Uncle fd's prot ection. Thinking thatthe Fabrique National e will of making applications without assu rance It would sugcest that that application for and models gether Europe with you the are being made ourselves, excluding Turkey, to give them some inventions has and that retain not want to stand that the gun will sort been it is the the rights You should at the out of it, either a the expense be given to them, of & memorandumto the effect made in America, that drawings intention of these of J.f. inventions Browning for to-# continental same time, keep is in the clear by Stating thatn while these are our intentions and we are working to these ends, that we would not care to make a definite agreement with them until we are Sure we are in the clear with Colt's, Doubtless F.N. will went some to the effect that if they are assurance not given the rights, that we shall stand the expense, end inasmuch as it prob ably will not be very great, think it would be alright, but will have to leave these matters with you to decide, Mr. Wilson is thinking about work ing out some sort of an agreemen t with Colt's which will be satisfactory to tmel e Fd and at the same time, keep the J,1'.&% MeS» Browning in the clear. we is bothered to some extent about it. One of the features tending to comp licate the Situetion is the fact that Colt's are now discussing with tnele Ed, modifying our machine Suns, making then smaller caliber and lighter, Unele Bd would like te go to work on them but natu rally wants Something in the way of wages or an interest