852.2221/920: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 8—1 p.m.]
895. My 880, June 4, 11 a.m., paragraph numbered 3, and your 340, June 4, 3 p.m. Thurston has just telegraphed from Barcelona that his office has been informed by an American nurse that on June 9 a group of over 300 wounded will be sent to France. Of these 53 are Americans. Nurse stated that “upon leaving Spain they will be furnished a complete outfit and upon reaching Paris will be given a sum of money”.
Has the Department considered the possibility of raising with the Spanish Government the question of the care and repatriation direct from Spain of wounded American volunteers?
An arrangement of this nature concluded either through negotiations with the Spanish Government by the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade or directly by the Department might lessen the suffering of the boys concerned and at the same time solve what will otherwise become an overwhelming problem for the American Hospital and American charitable institutions in Paris.
See paragraph 4 of my 880, June 4, 11 a.m. Who is the representative referred to in White’s statement contained in your 340?