852.00/8669a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State, On Board the S. S. “Santa Clara,” at Sea4
10. In my conversation today with the British Ambassador, following the thought expressed in your last conversation with me, I asked him what his personal and unofficial opinion was, in the event that the Conference might think the time propitious for making an offer of mediation to the two factions in Spain, as to whether such a move would in any way be regarded unfavorably by the British Government. The Ambassador replied immediately that he thought his Government would view such a step with favor. He added, however, that about six weeks ago the British Government had reached the positive conclusion that no mediation in which the British Government itself took part would meet with success until conditions in Spain materially changed.
- The Secretary of State, as Chairman of the American delegation to the Eighth International Conference of American States, was en route to Lima, Peru. See vol. v, pp. 1 ff.↩