Office of the Historian

852.00/5617: Telegram

The Consul General at Barcelona (Perkins) to the Secretary of State

Barcelona, June 2, 1937—8 p.m.
[Received June 2—5:10 p.m.]

My June 1, 11 a.m.68 and Wells’ June 1, 6 p.m.69 In view of the disaster to the steamship City of Barcelona does the Department desire me to take any initiative in inquiring concerning the Americans reported to be in hospital at Malgrat or the fate of any who may have been lost? The Department appreciates that those concerned are presumably all volunteers and that the steamship was not engaged in any regular passenger service.

Perkins
  1. Ante, p. 314.↩
  2. Not printed; in it the Vice Consul at Valencia reported a request for assistance from an American survivor of the City of Barcelona disaster (852.2221 Sauermilch, Alexander/1).↩