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Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of European Affairs (Moffat)
Dr. de la Casa, Counselor of the Spanish Embassy, telephoned this morning and referred to a conversation between the Under Secretary and the Spanish Ambassador last Saturday with regard to the situation of the Americans in Gijon whose evacuation on the Kane had been refused two days before.
[Page 543]Dr. de la Casa told me that the Embassy had just received a telegram from the Spanish Foreign Office notifying him that orders had been sent to allow the Americans in question to depart.
I told Dr. de la Casa that this was the best of news and that the Kane would shortly leave for Gijon to evacuate the Americans now in that port.