852.00/2780: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spam (Bowers), Then in France
Washington, August 28, 1936—6
p.m.
B–10. Your telegrams of August 24, 11 a.m. and August 25, noon, and my B–6, August 25, 7 p.m. The French Ambassador came in to [Page 514] see me this afternoon and in the course of the conversation stated that the French Government is giving serious consideration to the proposed appeal of the Diplomatic Corps at Hendaye to both factions in Spain “to stop wholesale assassinations of civilians.” I should be grateful if you would telegraph me as soon as possible the following information:
- (1)
- the substance and the status of any proposals of the Diplomatic Corps to humanize the conflict;
- (2)
- the names of the Governments whose representatives are taking part in the conversations and the names of those Governments whose representatives have been abstaining.
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