I consider that we ought not to conceal from the British the 
      fact that the activities of their secret service and propaganda, 
      involving a clash with the nation's most live and most sensitive 
      elements - the Army, the Police and the Falange with its three 
      million active members, have had throughout the past five years 
      a deplorable effect on our relations. We can state with positive 
      assurance that there has bean no petty intrigue nor minor disorder 
      brought to light during these years which has not, in some way 
          or other, been traced back to British agents.     
 
                                                            
 
 
The State had no alternative but to take appropriate measures 
      against all underground activities on the part of foreigners, 
      and the fact that the three elements mentioned above played a 
      most important part in the discovery and prosecution of such 
      activities has drawn on them the ill-feeling, if not the hatred 
      of the foreign agents, which in its turn has provoked much indignation 
                      among our own people.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
It is advisable that they should know in London that not one 
      of the political and diplomatic stratagems contrived abroad against 
      Spain has passed unnoticed in our country: even those matters 
      that might have been thought to be the most confidential and 
      secret have come providentially to our knowledge; but that the 
      Spanish State, with a clear vision of the future and of its historical 
      needs, has as much as possible avoided publicity and the ensuing 
                             scandal.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
Another fact to be brought to their notice is that the British 
      Intelligence Service has derived its information, at any rate 
      in our view here in Spain - not to speak of what they may have 
      gleaned from the Reds and malevolent politicians - from the most 
      frivolous and ineffectual elements in the country. I fear therefore 
      that the views and the news which Britain may have about our 
        country are likely to be inaccurate or distorted.   
 
                                                            
 
 
Taking all this into account I have deemed it necessary for 
      the sake of the future needs o %f both our countries, to try at 
      this historic moment to clarify our relations, in an endeavor 
      to free them