852.75 National Telephone Company/71: Telegram
The Ambassador in Spain (Laughlin) to the Secretary of State
Madrid, December 3, 1932—4
p.m.
[Received December 3—1:50 p.m.]
[Received December 3—1:50 p.m.]
101. Rock is informed by a source close to Government that if the American press were immediately to launch a rumor that I be at once withdrawn thus provoking a state of “semi-diplomatic rupture” in the event that Spain maintained an intransigeant attitude the peseta might react to such a statement thereby exercising an important and essential influence on the Spanish position.
Laughlin