852.2221/961: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 22—1:45 p.m.]
984. Your 321, May 27, 8 p.m. Amariglio has today turned over to the Embassy 12 of the missing passports of American volunteers to Spain and hopes to recover additional documents. He is paying for the transportation of 17 volunteers whose papers are now in order, who are returning tomorrow on the steamship President Harding. He states he has made arrangements with Barcelona under which further men will not be released until the cases of those remaining here have been settled. He seems to be equipped with ample funds for the repatriation of wounded, sick and ablebodied volunteers who are regularly discharged by the Spanish Loyalist military authorities but states that his organization will do nothing for deserters.
Foreign Office advises that volunteers will not be allowed across Franco-Spanish frontier unless they are in possession of valid travel documents. In such cases they will be granted transit visas good for 15 days only.