852.1115/3117: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in Spain (Thurston)
282. Consulate’s March 9, 4 p.m., A … E …. We suggest that you inform the appropriate Spanish authorities that there are now in [Page 493] Spain a number of Americans who may have been attached to the Spanish military forces in one capacity or another, who may possibly present themselves at our Consulates or Embassy requesting assistance in leaving Spain, and that you would therefore greatly appreciate for your guidance in such cases an expression of the attitude which the Spanish authorities would be disposed to adopt with regard to the evacuation of such American nationals from Spain by American naval vessels. Telegraph report.