701.6252/22: Telegram
The Ambassador in Germany (Dodd) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received November 21—5:11 p.m.]
345. My 338, November 18, 8 p.m.4 An interesting appointment has just been announced in the press namely that of General Von Faupel, retired, as Chargé d’Affaires to the Franco government at Salamanca.
Von Faupel is a well-known, extremely energetic officer considered locally, we understand, as one of the best military organizers in Germany. For some years after the war in which he was corps and army commander, and until 1929, Von Faupel was in Peru as adviser to its army. Since then he has been president of the Ibero-American Institute here. In his early career Von Faupel studied in Russia and speaks the language.
Mayer5 has known Von Faupel in Peru and here, considers him a man of exceptional force and character and well fitted to organize the Franco armies if this should be the real reason of the appointment.
Please inform Military Intelligence, War Department.
Repeated by wire to Paris, London, Rome.