Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, Europe, Volume II

740.0011 European War 1939/30253: Telegram

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

Madrid , July 21, 1943.
[Received July 21—3:07 p.m.]

1894. I have received following telegram from Archbishop of Toledo who is Primate of Spain:³⁵

“I beg you to transmit to His Excellency the President of the United States the deep emotion of the Spanish Catholic Episcopacy and people over the bombardment of Rome,³⁶ asking that a repetition which might endanger sacred places and venerated monuments be avoided.”

Please inform me promptly what reply I should make.

Hayes

35. Archbishop Enrique Pla y Deniel.
36. On July 19 certain military objectives at Rome had been bombed by American planes.