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The Secretary of State to the Consul at Valencia (Davis)
Sir: The Department has received your despatch No. 35 of March 15, 1937, regarding American deserters from the Spanish Army.
The Department has noted with interest the contents of your despatch and particularly your estimate that there are approximately 1,700 American citizens serving in the Spanish Government forces in Spain. The Department desires to be informed whether your estimate includes persons of dual nationality who were residing in Spain at the outbreak of the civil war or whether it includes only Americans who have gone to Spain since that time.
With reference to the last paragraph of your despatch, it is requested that you forward to the Department the uniform of the deserter R … which is said to have been issued to him in New York before he left this country.
Very truly yours,