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Memorandum by the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Chief of the Division of Western European Affairs (Dunn)
Upon receipt of the President’s message in response to the message of the Acting Secretary of State to the President32 informing him fully in the matter of the Anglo-French mediation proposal, I informed the British and French Ambassadors in pursuance of instructions of the Acting Secretary of State that it had been decided that no action would be taken by this Government with regard to the mediation proposals put forth by the French and British Governments until public announcement thereof were made; that upon the matter becoming public, the Acting Secretary of State would be prepared, in response to inquiries from the press, to give an expression of the hope of this Government for some solution to end the Spanish conflict. I informed the two Ambassadors furthermore that the President and the Secretary of State had been fully informed regarding this matter and that they are in accord with the action proposed to be taken by the Acting Secretary, which would therefore become the official expression of this Government.
Both Ambassadors asked me to express their appreciation to the Acting Secretary for having informed them of this decision.
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