Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, General, Volume I

852.00/5330: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in Spain (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Valencia, May 5, 1937—5 p.m.
[Received May 6—8:35 a.m.]

613. By decrees promulgated today the following measures affecting Catalonia have been taken: (1) pursuant to Article 9 of the Catalan Statute the Government of the Republic assumes control of all the armed forces of Catalonia; (2) the Catalan “Army of the East” is placed under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Organic Division of the National Army; (3) the general heretofore in command of the Fourth Division is removed and his place taken by General Pozas Perea.

Repeated to Ambassador Bowers.

Thurston