Office of the Historian

852.6363/799: Telegram

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

Madrid, April 22, 1943—6 p.m.
[Received April 23—4 a.m.]

1042. Your 924, April 23 [22?], 10 a.m. While I do not feel now that we should delay furnishing aviation gasoline until concession for airline granted, we might say at same time we agree to furnish it that we expect facilities to be given for American airline to operate in Spain in international service upon request. Are we interested in local passenger service between Spain and Portugal or merely in trans-Atlantic passengers?

I should like authority to sound out Foreign Office informally on general subject.

Hayes