501.BB/12–2046: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)

confidential

326. Re your telegram 989 of December 2091 quoting telegram received from SYG wherein latter requests he be informed of what action this Government has taken relative to recall of Ambassador from Madrid as recommended in GA Resolution at Fifty-ninth Plenary meeting. Dept requests that you reply to SYG as follows:

“I have the honor to inform you that I transmitted to my Government your communication of December 20 wherein you request that you be informed of the action taken by my Government on the General Assembly resolution adopted at Fifty-ninth Plenary Meeting relating to the recall of Ambassadors and Ministers Plenipotentiary from Madrid. My Government has instructed me to inform you that since the departure of Honorable Norman Armour from Madrid on December 1, 1945, the US has not had an Ambassador or a Minister Plenipotentiary in Spain.”

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