Office of the Historian

834.00 Revolutions/36: Telegram

The Minister in Paraguay (Howard) to the Secretary of State

Asunción, September 7, 1937—noon.
[Received September 8—12:20 p.m.]

35. Shooting going on in city and suburbs. Ex-combatant circulars and radio announcements state that uprising is for vindication of Franco and the February revolution.21 As all communications are cut off it is impossible to obtain any authoritative information.

Repeated to Buenos Aires.

Howard
  1. See Foreign Relations, 1936, vol. v, pp. 858 ff.↩