852.51/501: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain (Weddell)
87. Your 187, June 13, 11 a.m. You should set forth our position in interview with Franco in accordance with your existing instructions. Thereafter you should refer to the decree mentioned in your no. 186, and state that in view of this apparent change in the previous position of the Spanish Government with respect to the maintenance of a status of neutrality in the present European conflict you have transmitted the text thereof to your Government. You may add that there has not yet been time for you to receive further instructions from your Government but that in the meantime you would appreciate any clarification of the Spanish position that the Chief of the Spanish State might care to give.