File No. 881.00/578.
The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador.
Washington , April 30, 1914 .
Excellency: I have the honor to inform your excellency that the Department is in receipt of a telegram from the American Chargé d’Affaires at Tangier, stating that the French Diplomatic Agent in that city in the name of the French Resident General had requested of him a memorandum of pending and unsettled claims, understanding that this Government would not be favorably inclined to recognize the French protectorate until those cases were satisfactorily disposed of.
The American Legation at Tangier has been instructed to submit to the proper French authorities a memorandum of all pending American claims in Morocco and I beg to assure your excellency that a satisfactory solution of these cases would greatly aid this Government in replying to your note of January 8, 1913, containing the request of your Government for the formal recognition of the French protectorate in Morocco.
Accept, [etc.]