File No. 763.72114/3734
The Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Berne,
June 19, 1918, 3 p.m.
[Received June 21, 1.50 a.m.]
[Received June 21, 1.50 a.m.]
3703. Spanish Embassy, Berlin, informs me that inquiry contained in Department’s 2019, June 1, 6 p.m., was communicated to German Government on 8th instant.
The Spanish Ambassador in a private conversation with the German Under Secretary of State was informed that the German Government are disposed in principle to enter into negotiations with United States Government concerning a proposed agreement regarding the exchange and internment of prisoners of war of the two countries.
Stovall