852.00/8201: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 6—7:20 a.m.]
597. The British plan for the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain was unanimously adopted at a plenary meeting attended by representatives of 26 noninterventionist states last night. Copies of the complete document comprising some 60 pages are being despatched today to Barcelona and Burgos and will be published as a White Paper80 at the end of the week.
[Page 225]The two Spanish parties will be asked to provide facilities for the commissions to carry out their work of counting foreign auxiliaries and to arrange for setting up base camps through which they can be evacuated. They will also be requested to agree to a new arrangement by which international observers will be established on land in Spanish ports.
Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy each paid their share of an initial fund of £50,000. As previously reported the cost of the entire program was estimated at £2,750,000.
No significant editorial comment has appeared in the London press, but special reports of diplomatic correspondents are optimistic.
- British Cmd. 5793, Spain No. 1 (1938): The Text of a Proposed Resolution Reaffirming and Extending the Non-Intervention Agreement, and Providing for the Withdrawal of Foreign Volunteers from Spain … Adopted by the International Committee for the Application of the Agreement Regarding Nonintervention in Spain …, July 5, 1938.↩