852.00/3924: Telegram
The Third Secretary of Embassy in Spain (Wendelin) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 11:40 p.m.]
363. Twenty-eight American nationals including 4 Puerto Rican and 10 Philippine citizens remain in the Embassy at Madrid as well as 1 Canadian, 1 Peruvian, and 1 Danish nationals representing American interests and 6 Spanish women and children relatives of Americans. There are also 14 guards and 71 Spanish employees and servants and their immediate families. Still in Madrid outside of the Embassy there are 81 American nationals.
I am keeping in touch with the Embassy at Madrid daily by telephone. Since our departure there has been no change in the military situation or in internal conditions. Custodian informed me today [Page 780] that militia officer came to Embassy this morning stating he understood we had abandoned it and guard had been withdrawn. Upon learning the contrary he left without further discussion.