138 Spain/978: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in Spain (Thurston) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 16—11:51 a.m.]
978. Department’s 447, June 13, 7 p.m. I have discussed the return of passports of American members of International Brigades personally on several occasions with Alvarez del Vayo and Zugazagoitia65 and have supplemented these conversations with personal letters. Both persons named are favorably inclined toward the return of the passports, and I am hopeful, following further conversations today, that they will cause that action to be taken.
I have been promised a statement within a short time and believe that pending its receipt no action of the kind to which you refer is necessary. I will report when there are developments.
- Julio Zugazagoitia, Secretary General of the Spanish Ministry of National Defense.↩