852.00/5319: Telegram
The Ambassador in Spain (Bowers), Then in France, to the Secretary of State
St. Jean de
Luz, May 5,
1937—noon.
[Received 2:50 p.m.]
[Received 2:50 p.m.]
255. Telephone message from Del Vayo from Paris 10 last night. Says anarchist revolt throughout Catalonia and not only expected but welcomed as an opportunity to liquidate the anarchists who have been hostile from the beginning. Claims revolt will be crushed and was part of rebel plan. Finds significance in report in London Express dated Gibraltar 2 days before revolt saying it was due. The source hostile to the Government. Says thus far syndicalists not with anarchists and without these liquidation of anarchists certain.
Bowers