852.00/8156: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 27—7:34 a.m.]
1006. We were informed today by the Foreign Office that the French Government believed that the Spanish Government would not carry out its threat to bombard Italian cities in retaliation for bombardment of Spanish cities by Italian planes. The British and French Governments have expressed the opinion to the Spanish Government that in case the threat should be carried out the Italian Government would attack the Spanish Government at once with overwhelming forces and had indicated that neither the French nor the British Government would intervene to save the Spanish Government from destruction.