812.00Sonora/575: Telegram
The Ambassador in Mexico (Morrow) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 10—12:37 a.m.]
196. Your 253 of April 8, 5 p.m. The President told us this afternoon that both the Mexican Red Cross and the Mexican White Cross had offered to furnish hospital supplies at Monterrey and that he had telegraphed to Almazan’s chief of staff in Monterrey and had received a reply thanking the local Red Cross Societies for their offer but stating that adequate hospital preparations had been made in advance. He desired us to express his thanks to the State Department, to the American Red Cross and to Consul Balch for the suggestion but under the circumstances it was not necessary to request aid.