852.00/3194: Telegram
The Third Secretary of Embassy in Spain (Wendelin) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:40 a.m.]
X–155. Minister of State Alvarez del Vayo left yesterday for Geneva heading Spanish delegation to League of Nations Assembly. Fernando de los Rios, newly appointed Ambassador to Washington, is member of the delegation.
In interview before leaving with foreign press correspondents Minister of State expressed absolute confidence that Government would conquer rebellion declaring that without military aid from certain foreign countries rebels would have been vanquished before now. He added that the Spanish Civil War affected not only Spain but all Europe and asserted that the Spanish Government was fighting for the peace of the peoples of Europe.