852.2221/1220: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in Spain (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

1058. The Minister of State informed me last evening that the international Commission designated at Geneva to observe the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Loyalist Spain will arrive at Perpignan today and will later come to Barcelona. Señor Del Vayo stated that all foreign volunteers have now been withdrawn from the fighting lines and that most of them are concentrated at various points in Catalonia, although a few are in the severed southern zone. He expects evacuation from Spain to begin within a very short time.

Thurston