852.00/2897: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Henderson) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 31—9 a.m.]
199. My No. 197, August 29, 11 p.m.[a.m.], paragraph 3. Moscow Izvestiya of August 30 carries the following Tass announcement:
“In connection with the coming into force of the notes exchanged between the U. S. S. R. and France on non-interference in Spanish [Page 519] affairs, the Peoples Commissariat of Foreign Trade has issued an order prohibiting from August 28, 1936, the export, reexport and transit to Spain, Spanish possessions and Spanish Morocco of all kinds of arms, munitions and war materials, aircraft assembled and in parts as well as warships.”
It is believed that the order was actually issued on August 29 and made retroactive to the preceding day.