852.01/380: Telegram
The Consul at Seville (Bay) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 27—7:24 a.m.]
38. At noon on June 22 I delivered the substance of the Department’s telegram No. 30, June 16, 7 p.m., to Senor Vidal which he received [Page 221] without visible reaction. He said he would speak to the Foreign Minister about it. He observed, however, that the Department had not conceded their chief desire of obtaining some kind of recognition for General Franco’s agent in the United States and also that their ships flying the national flag may not visit our ports. He asked for my memorandum which had been prepared for myself and which I gave him.
Following our conversation he presented me, upon my request, to the Under Secretary with whom I took up the subject of American prisoners and my proposed visit to the concentration camp. This is the subject of a following telegram.78
Copy to Ambassador.