Office of the Historian

852.3300 Motomar/40: Telegram

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

Washington, December 21, 1937—7 p.m.

248. Your No. 323, December 20, 4 p.m. Please consult the Department’s instructions in regard to this matter; in particular, telegrams Nos. 230, December 31, 1936, 3 p.m.;77 1, January 3, 1937, 1 p.m.; 6, January 8; 54, March 31, noon; 68, April 15, 2 p.m.; 70, April 16, 3 p.m.; 146, July 21, 3 p.m.; and instruction No. 1537, May 18.

Please bring this matter once more to the attention of the Foreign Office, bearing in mind the categorical and reiterated assurances of the Mexican Government that the transshipment of these planes to Spain would not be permitted.

Report by telegraph.

Hull
  1. Foreign Relations, 1936, vol. ii, p. 624.↩