852.75 National Telephone Company/182

The Ambassador in Spain (Bowers) to the Acting Secretary of State

No. 87

Sir: Referring to your telegraphic instruction No. 17 of May 27, 2 p.m., 1933,17 authorizing me after consultation with Captain Rock, and whenever I think it would be most effective, to inform the Minister of State orally that the position of the United States had not been modified in any way since the presentation of its Note of November 23, 1932,18 I have the honor to inform you that, at Captain Rock’s suggestion, during a recent interview with the Minister of State concerning the five American prisoners in Mallorca, I alluded casually to the Radical Socialists’ program, recently presented to the Government as the minimum basis for the collaboration, Article 21 of which called for the annulment of the Telephone Company’s concession, and was reported in my despatch No. 66 of June [July] 12, 1933.17 I told Sr. de los Ríos19 that though this would appear to be a political maneuver of the Radical Socialist party, and that I assumed it had no particular importance, I desired to inform him that the position of the United States Government [Page 702] had in no way been modified since the presentation of the Note of November 23 referred to above.

Sr. de los Ríos made no comment and I then took up other matters having no bearing on the Telephone Company.

Respectfully yours,

Claude G. Bowers
  1. Not printed.
  2. See Foreign Relations, 1932, vol. ii, p. 566.
  3. Not printed.
  4. Minister of State (Minister for Foreign Affairs).