352.0022/75: Telegram
The Chargé in Chile (Frost) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:07 p.m.]
124. Reference my 123, August 9, 3 p.m. Chile has received favorable telegraphic replies from Panama, Cuba, Venezuela, Uruguay, Guatemala, Salvador, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay, with oral assurances from Argentina and Brazil. Publications here of Chilean memorandum have evoked universal popular approval including that of Rightists. New Franco Cabinet contains four Ministers who either received asylum in Chilean Embassy at Madrid or have personal friendship here. Accordingly there is some hope that Franco may forestall joint protest plan by allowing present asilados to leave Spain without committing his Government on international law aspect.58 Private remarks to me by British Ambassador and German Chargé indicate both are intensely interested.
- In October the Ambassador in Chile reported that 4 of the 14 political refugees still in the Chilean Embassy in Spain were to be permitted to leave Spain; and again in May 1940 he reported that the difficulties were well on the way to a friendly solution and that the Chilean Ambassador would leave shortly to assume charge of the Embassy in Spain.↩