In View of the recrudescence of the aerial bombardments of 
      the Spanish civilian population by the Italo-German air forces, 
      the Spanish Government thinks it necessary to communicate the 
      following to Your Excellency:
 
      
 
 
(1) The Spanish people cannot contemplate without indignation 
      and bitterness the cold indifference with which the democratic 
      Governments accept the repeated and cynical application against 
      them of a method of warfare which these very Governments have 
      not hesitated to condemn as barbarous and inhuman. As long as 
      the facts were not demonstrated in a convincing manner, there 
      may have been some justification for an attitude if not of indifference, 
      at least of reserve. To-day that is no longer possible. The democratic 
      Governments and the whole world are aware of the reports of the 
      British Commission Of Investigation, which show in the most categorical 
      manner how the aviation in the service of the Spanish rebels 
      is systematically applying the bombardment of the civilian population 
      as a method of warfare. Indeed, apart from the attacks on Alicante, 
      which with the exception of four, have been deemed by the Commission's 
      conclusions force one to consider the following cases as attacks 
      on a civilian population, either deliberate or through negligence:
 
      
 
 
4 raids on Alicante, carried out 25.5.'38; 25.7.'38; 6.3.'38 
      and 10.'.'38 
 
      Raid on Barcelona carried out 19.8.38 " " Sitges " 
      " 8.8.38 " " Torrevieja " " 25.8.38 
      " " Figueras " " 14.10.38 " " Tarragona 
      " " 7.11.38 " " Barcelona " " 23.11.38
 
      
 
 
Objective proof exists. There is now no room for doubt as 
      to the reality of the systematic employment in Spain of the aerial 
      bombardments on the civilian population. Deliberate, or arising 
      from negligence, they all come within the formula used by the 
      British Prime Minister before Parliament to define the frontiers 
      between legality and crime, in the matter of aerial bombardm %ents, 
      a formula which was taken and reproduced in the resolution adopted 
      by the League of Nations Assembly on 30th September 1938.
 
      
 
 
(2) Very well; once the machinery set up by the Government 
      of the United Kingdom itself has irrefutably proved the systematic 
      employment of bombardments of the civilian population in Spain, 
      how is it possible that there is no attempt to prevent them? 
      Are we not all agreed in