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

852.00/5782: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in Spain (Thurston) to the Secretary of State

Valencia, June 20, 1937—1 p.m.
[Received 1:45 p.m.]

687. Communiqués issued by the Ministry of National Defense refute, on the personal word of honor of Prieto, the German claim (which is regarded as the precursor to some maneuver) that the Leipzig has been attacked by Government vessels;¹¹ and interpret the remarks of Admiral Raeder¹² at the funeral of the Deutschland victims as confirming the Spanish version of the Ibiza bombing.

Thurston

11. The alleged attacks upon the German cruiser Leipzig took place on June 15 and 18.
12. Adm. Erich Raeder, Chief of the German Navy.