852.00/7868: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 7—10:35 a.m.]
726. Your 260, May 6, 7 p.m. Embassy’s 677, April 30, 7 p.m.,50 fifth from last paragraph reported that the French Government had agreed to the reestablishment of international control along the Franco-Spanish frontier as soon as the commissions have arrived in Spain and begun the work of making a census of the so-called volunteers. This information was furnished by the Foreign Office in strict confidence and it is requested that it be so treated.
In general, it may be said that the question of reestablishment of the international control along the frontier will depend upon the action of the Non-Intervention Committee in London on the resolution submitted to the Committee on November 4 last. It will also, of course, be necessary for the two parties to the Spanish conflict to give their consent to the despatch of the census commissions to Spain.
As regards question of detail concerning the manner in which the land control may operate in case it is reestablished and question concerning the operation of the sea control, the Foreign Office suggests that since the control is international in character centered in the Non-Intervention Committee in London, information on such points can best be obtained in London.
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