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The Chief of the Division of Western European Affairs ( Moffat ) to the Assistant Secretary of State ( Sayre )
Mr. Sayre: The Spanish Counselor called on me this morning on a number of miscellaneous matters and again reiterated the request of the Spanish Embassy that we give them some advance notice of certain of the products on which we would ask concessions from Spain. He said that he did not ask for either a complete list or for the details of the concessions which we would ask for in those products, but that it would facilitate and speed the studies now being made in Madrid if they could be directed toward certain specific products. I told him that, of course, our country committee was hard at work and that there was a distinct reluctance to communicate our desiderata piecemeal. None the less, I would once again put it up to Mr. Sayre.