Office of the Historian

852.00/3047: Telegram

The Minister in Uruguay (Lay) to the Secretary of State

Montevideo, September 8, 1936—noon.
[Received September 8—11:09 a.m.]

38. Government organ El Pueblo publishes note from Uruguayan Minister for Foreign Affairs to Uruguayan Minister to Paris dated August 28 acknowledging thanks of Alcalá Zamora67 for Uruguay’s proposed mediation, giving précis of replies received from countries addressed and concluding by announcing the postponement of the negotiations until more suitable opportunity. Copy of the note was transmitted to the Uruguayan Minister at Washington for communication to Pan American Union with recommendation that he continue the conversations privately in Washington outside the official meetings of the Pan American Union in order to be ready to promote the Uruguayan initiative when any opportunity is presented.

Lay
  1. Niceto Alcala Zamora, President of Spanish Republic, 1931–36.↩