864.01/571: Telegram
The Ambassador in Spain (Hayes) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 7—2:25 p.m.]
1567. In the course of my interview this morning with the Foreign Minister,61 I also asked him about the notice Foreign Office had recently served on the Hungarian Minister that the Spanish Government would recognize as Chargé d’Affaires of the present Hungarian Regime, the former Counselor of the Hungarian Legation in Lisbon.62 He said that Spain as well as Portugal had no choice but to recognize the present Hungarian Government with which its Minister in Budapest63 was in contact as the legal successor of the previous Government [Page 875] and, in this connection, he cited at some length Spain’s action in recognizing the Badoglio64 Government.
The Hungarian Minister, whom I saw previously, seemed quite complacent about giving up his Legation and plans to go to Lisbon where he can be in touch with the former Hungarian Minister to Portugal.
Repeated to Lisbon.
- Lt. Gen. Count Francisco Gomez Jordana.↩
- Sándor Hollán.↩
- Miguel Angel de Muguiro.↩
- Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Head of the Italian Government; for correspondence regarding concern of the United States over maintenance of responsible government in Italy, see Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. ii, pp. 402 ff. and post, pp. 996 ff.↩