852.00/5463: Telegram

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

639. It has been suggested to me by Spanish acquaintances that the governmental crisis just passed was officially inspired in order to bring into existence a government sufficiently free from extreme radicalism to make possible a policy of support on the part of Great Britain. This support might be positive or merely along the lines of mediation reported in my 624 of May 12.

Thurston