Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 2, The World War

File No. 861.48/255

The Ambassador in Spain ( Willard) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Madrid, February 27, 1917, noon.
[Received 6 p.m.]

379. Department’s 261, 16th. Foreign Office state Spanish Ambassador Berlin will receive funds from American Commission for Jewish War Sufferers in Poland. Ambassador suggests funds be transmitted as at present to Warburg & Co., Hamburg, who will remit to central committee, Berlin, against receipts. Spanish Ambassador adds that it will be impossible for either him or central committee to purchase foodstuffs in Germany.

Willard