852.00/4–646: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Caffery)

secret

1568. Please deliver note in following terms to Foreign Minister: [Here follows text of note as quoted in Aide-Mémoire of April 6, 1946, supra.]

If Bidault should revert to his proposal that Spanish matter be considered by Council of Foreign Ministers you should say that we do not believe that comes within terms of reference of Council.

Sent to Paris as 1568, repeated to London as 3013 and Madrid as 497.

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