852.00/5948: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham) to the Secretary of State
London, July 9, 1937—7
p.m.
[Received July 9—2:40 p.m.]
[Received July 9—2:40 p.m.]
457. When I saw the Foreign Secretary this morning he said that the Spanish situation had taken a bad turn again and that he did not know what might come of it because it appeared that Germany and Italy had put pressure upon Franco to change his position, at least temporarily, towards the removal of the so-called foreign volunteers from Spain. While he believed that Franco undoubtedly was in favor of their removal, he has been compelled to yield to pressure from Germany and Italy which he was in no position to resist.
Bingham