Office of the Historian

852.2221/325: Telegram

The Consul General at Marseille (Hurley) to the Secretary of State

Marseille, April 3, 1937—10 a.m.
[Received April 3—9:25 a.m.]

Department’s April 2, 7 p.m.54 Prisoners charged with violation of French law of January 21, 1937, and the ministerial decree of February 18, 1937,55 by having passed in transit through French territory en route to Spain in order to enroll in the forces fighting there. The French press states that prisoners have now admitted to the French authorities that this was their intention. Full report by mail.56

Hurley
  1. Not printed; it instructed the Consul General to cable charges on which prisoners were held (852.2221/317).↩
  2. See telegrams No. 89, January 22, 2 p.m., and No. 242, February 19, 1 p.m., from the Ambassador in France, pp. 231 and 479.↩
  3. Not printed.↩