852.00/5027a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham)
110. President just returned from vacation and would be extremely interested to have any information as to probable British attitude in the event Italy should move an avowed governmental and official army force into Spain, either upon the theory of protecting, rescuing or bringing out the Italians already there, or of participating in the civil strife in Spain. This would mean a most casual and discreet inquiry under such circumstances as would afford no possible basis for any inference that this Government would predicate any of its acts in the slightest upon such information. You might casually and incidentally in conversation on other subjects be able to develop this inquiry.