Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, General, Volume I

852.3300 Motomar/40: Telegram

The Ambassador in Mexico (Daniels) to the Secretary of State

Mexico City, December 20, 1937—4 p.m.
[Received 7:07 p.m.]

323. Embassy’s despatch No. 5312, August 27, 1937.⁷⁶ American Consul at Vera Cruz reports that he is informed from a source which he considers reliable that the airplanes belonging to the Spanish Government stored in the sanitary warehouse in Vera Cruz are being loaded nightly aboard the Spanish ship Ibai, all but four or five having already been loaded. The Ibai was recently commissioned as a Spanish war vessel.

Daniels

76. Not printed; it transmitted a copy of the list of airplanes imported into Mexico up to June 5, 1937, requested by the Department of State in its instruction No. 1651, August 3, to the Chargé in Mexico, p. 596.