852.00/2844: Telegram
The Chargé in Italy (Kirk) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 28—11 a.m.]
348. My 342, August 22, 9 a.m. Communiqué issued this afternoon states that by means of appropriate ministerial measures adopted by agreement among the interested administrations the exportations direct and indirect, the reexportation and transit to Spain, the Spanish possessions and the Spanish zone of Morocco of arms, munitions and war materials, as well as airplanes assembled or nonassembled, and war vessels have been forbidden. The communiqué adds that this prohibition applies to all contracts in course of execution.