852.00/4053: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received December 10—4:13 p.m.]
1229. Your 512, December 9, 1 p.m. Delbos sent for me this afternoon and said that he wished to explain to me precisely what the French Government hoped the American Government might do with respect to the French proposal of mediation. He said that he had had no idea that we could actively participate in this matter but that he hoped the President or in the absence of the President, yourself, might be able to make a declaration saying that in the interest of humanity we applauded the proposal made, the acceptance of which might produce not only peace in Spain but also tend to prevent European conflagration.