852.00/7702: Telegram
The Chargé in France (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 7—3 p.m.]
558. Reference my 544, April 6, 4 p.m. An official of the Foreign Office has informed the Embassy that the French Government will reply to the Spanish note stating that it will continue to follow the policy of nonintervention.
This official stated that the French Government would have preferred to try some sort of mediation between the opposing forces in [Page 176] Spain in which attempt it might possibly have been able to obtain the support of the British Government, but that Negrín refused to attempt to make any compromise and insisted upon fighting to the end.