852.79662/11–2144: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain (Hayes)
3087. For your own information and in connection with your 3806, November 21, 2 p.m.,88 and previous, the Department on November 21 wrote to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in order to obtain their views about the desirability of having the Deutsche Lufthansa service to Spain discontinued and a service by Iberia from Madrid to Switzerland, with control stop in France, substituted. At the same time the Department asked that approval for the allocation of a sufficient quantity of 87 octane gasoline to operate not more than two round-trip frequencies a week be given in the event that the Joint Chiefs were desirous of accepting the Spanish proposal. You will be advised promptly when a reply is received.
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