352.1121 Ambler, I. Owen/9: Telegram
The Third Secretary of Embassy in Spain (Wendelin) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:15 a.m.]
X–59. Department’s 87 of August 14, 7 p.m. British made urgent representations to Spanish Government regarding staff Rio Tinto Mining Corporation 3 days ago. Government has no ordinary means of communication with mines but has agreed to send plane tomorrow carrying orders from Government, Socialist, Communist and Syndicalist labor organizations to miners to release foreign staff and permit them to go to Valverde from where they will be evacuated through Huelva. Orders are being sent in three separate pouches which will be dropped at mines by plane.
[Page 673]Rio Tinto mines office at Madrid informed the Embassy on July 31 that Mr. Ambler safe at mines apparently on misinformation.93
- By telegram No. 402, August 17, 11 a.m., the Ambassador in the United Kingdom informed the Department that Mr. Ambler had arrived safely at Huelva and was proceeding to Gibraltar and thence to Venice (352.1121 Ambler, I. Owen/10).↩