852.6363/766: Telegram
The Ambassador in Spain (Hayes) to the Secretary of State
Madrid, April 6,
1943—4 p.m.
[Received 9:27 p.m.]
[Received 9:27 p.m.]
822. British Embassy informed by London sympathetic consideration being given to supplying aviation gasoline. Ambassador suggested to me consent for British civil aircraft to land in Spain might be requested as compensation. While I am not prepared to say that we should decline to furnish aviation gasoline until concession for British airline to operate in Spain is obtained it would obviously be desirable from our general point of view if a British or other Allied airline were permitted to operate in Spain.
Hayes