Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, General, Volume I

352.1121 Fernandez, Antonio/35: Telegram

The Consul at Seville (Bay) to the Secretary of State

Seville, June 8, 1937—10 a.m.
[Received June 8—7:40 a.m.]

Department’s June 5, 2 p.m. Antonio Fernandez Villa. General Queipo de Llano⁷¹ promised me last night he would instruct military authorities in Palma de Mallorca to postpone trial of Fernandez pending investigation by an American consular officer to be sent there.

Bay

71. Nationalist general, in command at Seville.