Office of the Historian

852.1115/553a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Malaga (Graves)83

Washington, August 8, 1936—2 p.m.

Socony-Vacuum Oil Company of New York is today sending British registered airplane Gaecx owned by Gordon Self ridge, Jr., pilot de Sibour, from London to Tangier to meet company’s representative there who is now making arrangements to evacuate by airplane Americans and perhaps other foreign nationals stranded in Granada. Please inform local military authorities.

Hull
  1. Sent also to the Embassy at Madrid (No. 75) and to the Consul at Seville.↩