Office of the Historian

352.115/148: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Third Secretary of Embassy in Spain (Wendelin)

Washington, October 30, 1936—8 p.m.

180. In a telegram received by Department October 28,78 the Consul General at Barcelona reports that the International Banking Corporation has received a communication from the Industrial Cotton [Page 751] Committee in Barcelona stating that it had assumed possession, for the purpose of distribution, of cotton taken over in Barcelona.

Please bring the matter to the attention of the Foreign Office and say that in the event that the American shippers do not receive payment from the authorities in Barcelona this Government will be under the necessity of looking to the Government of Spain for payment in full of all cotton taken over.

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