352.1115/3220: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in Spain (Thurston) to the Secretary of State
Valencia, March 26, 1937—1
p.m.
[Received 2 p.m.]
[Received 2 p.m.]
565. Department’s 295.51 The Ministry of State is disposed to permit the evacuation of R … and of C …, referred to in my X–552,52 and will approach military authorities in that sense. At the Cabinet meeting yesterday it was decided that henceforth while the usual penalty will not be applied to foreign deserters they will not be allowed to leave Spain but will be placed in concentration camps. Repeated to Barcelona.
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Thurston
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