852.00/4436: Telegram
The Consul General at Barcelona ( Perkins ) to the Secretary of State
Barcelona
, January 21, 1937—1
p.m.
[Received 7 p.m.]
[Received 7 p.m.]
My January 18, noon. Personally observed further contingent of foreign volunteers including group of about 20 Americans carrying red flag inscribed Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Suggest descriptive details of reports from this office regarding volunteers be kept confidential.
January 18 Russian commercial steamer arrived Barcelona bringing approximately 900 tons of wheat flour, 900 sugar, 570 butter, also 12 cases of presents from children Moscow to children Barcelona.
Perkins