Major Whiteleyasked the Prime Minister what were the terms of the recent communication from the German Government regarding the strategic aims in the Iberian Peninsula attributed to them?
§ The Prime MinisterThe German Ambassador called at the Foreign Office on 13th July and stated that he had been authorised by his Government categorically to deny the truth of articles in the British Press on 12th July containing what purported to be an account of a lecture delivered by a German General on German aims in the Iberian Peninsula. The Ambassador stated that no such lecture had ever been delivered and added that his Government were issuing a formal denial of these reports.