Office of the Historian

852.1121 Fernandez, Antonio/32: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Seville (Bay)

Washington, June 5, 1937—2 p.m.

Antonio Fernandez Villa, American citizen, reported imprisoned and about to be tried at Palma de Mallorca. As we have no consular representative in Palma please request insurgent authorities to postpone any action in this case until we are able to send a consular officer to Palma to investigate and report.

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As there is no possibility of communication between Barcelona and Palma at this time we are endeavoring to make arrangements to send one of our officers from Marseille or Genoa.70

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  1. T. Monroe Fisher, Vice Consul at Leghorn, was sent to Palma de Mallorca to investigate and report.↩