Office of the Historian

852.00/7089: Telegram

The Ambassador in Spain (Bowers), Then in France, to the Secretary of State

St. Jean de Luz, December 20, 1937—noon.
[Received December 20—10:40 a.m.]

417. Conversation with one in position to know corroborates the general report of a serious anti-Franco conspiracy to remove him by assassination. Important papers and money reported missing from Salamanca. Many arrests reported. Closing of frontiers associated [Page 468] with disappearance of papers. Identity of conspirators carefully guarded but believed to be the Falange or [omission?] army officers.

Bowers