852.01/529: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 11—3:20 p.m.]
462. Your No. 153, March 10, 8 p.m. I requested Quinones de Leon to call on me at 5:00 o’clock this afternoon and read to him an exceedingly careful paraphrase of your No. 153, March 10, 8 p.m. He replied that he had never labored under any misconception and that it was absurd to consider that he had. He said that he was equally certain that his Government was laboring under no misconception. Indeed he felt so sure of this that he thought it would be ridiculous for him to comply with my request that the statement that I had read should be communicated by him to his Government. I replied that since my Government had requested it, I trusted that he would communicate the statement. He answered that he would do so.