Office of the Historian

124.523/352: Telegram

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

Washington, March 15, 1937—6 p.m.

287. Tour X–545, March 12, 6 p.m., and X–546, March 12, 7 p.m. Exemption from military service of Spanish employees other than Ugarte is not important to us. Drop therefore any representations you may have been making in their behalf and concentrate your efforts upon obtaining exemption of Ugarte. Suggest you call without delay upon appropriate authorities and again pointing out his indispensability to us under present circumstances press for a favorable decision in his case.47

Do not intervene in any way between the Spanish Government and Spanish employees of absent members of American colony.

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  1. By telegram No. 685, June 20, 11 a.m., the Counselor of Embassy in Spain informed the Department that Ugarte had been simultaneously inducted into the army and assigned to military guard duty in the American Embassy at Madrid (124.523/358).↩