852.00/7162: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Wright) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:05 p.m.]
2. Embassy’s despatch No. 374, December 20.2 I have just received a note dated December 30 from the Cuban Secretary of State in which he refers to his note verbale dated October 21 inviting the Government of the United States to join with the other American countries in extending good offices to the warring factions in Spain.3 The Secretary of State informs me that 11 American nations have supported his gesture; 6, while expressing hope for its success, regret that they cannot associate themselves with it because of their policy of nonintervention; and 2 condition their acceptance on a prior consultation with the parties directly interested in the Spanish problem. After expressing thanks for the welcome given the Cuban initiative and pointing out the special ties between Spain and the American peoples of Spanish origin, the Secretary of State announces that the Government of Cuba will consult the Government of the Spanish Republic and General Francisco Franco confidentially concerning whether they would be disposed to accept the tender of its good offices.
- Ibid., p. 466.↩
- See telegram No. 82, October 20, 1937, 1 p.m., from the Ambassador in Cuba, ibid., p. 428.↩