852.24/620a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy)
197. For use in connection with certain proposed legislation now pending which has as its objective the repeal or modification of existing statutes prohibiting shipment of arms, ammunition and implements of war from this country to Spain, we would like to have a telegraphic report setting forth chronologically the developments in the work of the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee since the adoption on November 4 of the formula presented by the British Government to deal with the Spanish situation.48 We have the main lines of the British plan, which was adopted by the Committee on November 4, 1937. We are interested to have in the report above called for any information which may be available
- (1)
- as to the difficulties of carrying out this plan resulting from the activities of any of the countries members of the Non-Intervention Committee,
- (2)
- a report on the possibilities from the point of view of the present situation in Europe of the successful carrying out of the main objectives of the plan, and
- (3)
- a report on the present status of the engagements undertaken by the members of the committee not to permit the shipment from or transit through their territories of arms or war material destined for Spain.
- For correspondence regarding the British proposals submitted to the Nonintervention Committee on July 14, 1937, see Foreign Relations, 1937, vol. i, pp. 359–440, passim.↩