Office of the Historian

340.1115A/1542: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain (Weddell)

Washington, October 18, 1940—4 p.m.

258. You may inform Spanish Government that Department earnestly supports request of Embassy Paris (Vichy) in its telegram no. 753, October 15, 7 p.m.,71 repeated to you, and hopes the Spanish Government will find it possible to expedite the issuance of visas to Americans in France desiring to return via Lisbon.

If Spanish Government finds it impossible to authorize its consular officers to grant transit visas to Americans on simple presentation their passports and evidence of arrangements for trip to United States, you may suggest an arrangement such as that put forward by American Embassy at Berlin in first paragraph section 2 of its 4179, September 27.

Please report action taken by Spanish Government to meet this problem.

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