852.48/796: Telegram
The Ambassador in Spain (Weddell) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:06 p.m.]
697. My telegram No. 693, December 2, 1 p.m. I have just received the following communication dated yesterday from the Minister for Foreign Affairs:
“My Dear Ambassador: I have received your kind letter of today’s date concerning shipments of wheat or flour for the civil population of our country and, in accord with the same, I have great pleasure in indicating to Your Excellency that the Spanish Government is in agreement with the three points contained in it, as well as with the draft of the press release which accompanies it.
I reiterate to Your Excellency my gratitude for the cordial good will of your intervention in this matter and request you to transmit that of the Chief of State and Government of Spain to the President of the United States of America.
I avail myself of this opportunity to express to Your Excellency the expression of my high consideration and my personal friendship.”