852.00/4872: Telegram
The Chargé in France (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Extract]
Paris, March 5, 1937—2
p.m.
[Received 2:35 p.m.]
[Received 2:35 p.m.]
311. I am told at the Foreign Office that they are reliably informed by their Consul at Gibraltar that on February 28 Italian “volunteers” in important numbers were landed at Cadiz. My informant said that while this might appear unbelievable in view of the fact that the international agreement banning volunteers had gone into effect one week earlier nevertheless “in the state of utter cynicism and lack of regard for obligations existing in Europe today nothing should be unbelievable”.
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Wilson