File No. 881.00/531.
The French Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, January 8, 1913.
Mr. Secretary of State: By order of my Government, I have the honor to communicate herewith to your excellency the text of the Franco-Moroccan Protectorate Treaty that was signed at Fez on March 30, 1912.1
The assurances your excellency was pleased to give me heretofore as to the establishment of the French protectorate in Morocco lead me to hope that the Federal Government will see no objection to giving its adhesion to that instrument. The French Government would be glad to be so assured.
Your excellency will note that under article 6 of the aforesaid treaty “the diplomatic and consular officers of France will be in charge of the representation and protection of Moroccan subjects and interests abroad.”
A limitation, however, was put upon the provision by the Franco-Spanish treaty of November 27 last of which I had the honor to communicate to the Department of State on the 29th of the same month. Article 23 of that treaty provides that “The Moroccan subjects belonging in the zone of Spanish influence shall be placed abroad under the protection of the diplomatic and consular officers of Spain.”
Be pleased [etc.]
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