Carlton Hayes, the US ambassador to Spain, was not a fan of the WRB (if you remember way back, there are some choice documents from the spring about him). But he was also not about to allow the Falange to disturb American interests. So even though he didn’t like Samuel Sequerra, the Joint’s rep in Spain, in particular, he still protested when Sequerra was attacked and his offices ransacked by a group of teenage Falange members.