852.00/3795: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul at Seville (Bay)
Although the Embassy quarter in Madrid has not so far been subjected to bombardment we are informed that the British Foreign Office has instructed its Ambassador at Hendaye as a precautionary measure informally to request the Burgos Junta to extend the Madrid safety zone sufficiently far to the west of Castellana Avenue to include the British, American and other nearby Embassies and Legations.
Please request General Queipo de Llano to inform General Franco [Page 764] that we associate ourselves unreservedly with this British request and earnestly hope that he will comply therewith to the fullest extent within his power.