Office of the Historian

852.00/5739: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Vice Consul at Barcelona (Flood)

Washington, June 18, 1937—5 p.m.

Your telegram of June 16, 3 p.m., in regard to the S. S. Ciudad Barcelona. From the information in possession of the Department, it would appear to be extremely unlikely that any airplane engines of American manufacture were on the ship and almost inconceivable that there could have been 800. Telegraph any further information which you may receive in regard to this matter.77

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  1. In his despatch No. 369, July 2, the Vice Consul at Barcelona reported that in attempting to confirm, or disprove, the information contained in his telegram of June 16, 3 p.m., to the Secretary of State, he had exhausted every available source of information without reaching a solution (852.00/6016).↩