852.2221/875: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Bullitt)
330. Your 833, May 26, 7 p.m. and Department’s reply of May 27, 8 p.m. Mr. David McKelvey White, National Chairman of the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, in response to my letter to him, called upon me at the Department yesterday. He stated that it is the intention of his organization to undertake a special drive for a large sum to be applied specifically to the care and repatriation of wounded Americans. In response to our request, he is endeavoring to arrange for allocation of funds for repatriation of the twenty-eight men mentioned in your telegram. He also stated that he was working with the Bromfield54 Committee in Paris. I am now communicating also with the Medical Bureau, North American Committee in Aid of Spanish Democracy. I cannot be at all sure that any of these efforts here will be effective and suggest therefore you keep this information confidential for the present.
Press despatches from Paris this morning report failure of Paris Committee to raise funds.
- Louis Bromfield, Chairman, Emergency Committee for American Wounded from Spain.↩