852.6363/78: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain ( Hammond )
[Paraphrase]
Washington
,
November 11, 1927—1
p.m.
89. The Spanish Ambassador has made a protest to the Department against the action of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the Shell Oil Company in refusing to have dealings with the Spanish petroleum monopoly. He was informed that this was not a subject with which the Department was concerned and that the sole interest of this Government in the question was in obtaining proper compensation for any American companies which might be expropriated in connection with the establishment of the monopoly.
Kellogg