811.20 Defense (M) Spain/1261: Telegram
The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Roosevelt
586. Your telegram No. 467 of February 15th. Sir Samuel Hoare had already been instructed to give his fullest support to your Ambassador and I have now seen reports of further representation made by our Ambassadors at Madrid.
These show a settlement which I should myself regard as eminently satisfactory can now be reached on all points if we act quickly. This settlement would include complete cessation of Spanish wolfram exports to Germany for 6 months. If all goes as we hope I do not think we need anticipate much difficulty in maintaining this position when 6 months have elapsed.
The Foreign Secretary is telegraphing in greater detail to the State Department. I hope that you will agree that we should immediately [Page 346] clinch the matter on above basis which I am sure would represent a major political victory over the enemy.
2. We have just had a stick of bombs around 10 Downing Street and there are no more windows. Clemmie and I were at Chequers and luckily all the servants were in the shelter. Four persons killed outside.