Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 881.00/623

The Secretary of State to Chargé Blake

No. 167

Department of State,
Washington , August 8, 1916 .

Sir: Referring to the Department’s telegram of August 3 requesting your comments and suggestions upon the form of renunciation of American extraterritorial rights in Morocco which the French Government has requested the United States Government to adopt, and to the Department’s telegram of July 5, stating that a note had been sent on July 1 to the French Ambassador at Washington giving the conditions under which the United States would be inclined to recognize the French protectorate and to agree to the abolition of American extraterritorial rights in Morocco, there is herewith enclosed for your information a copy of the note in question.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

John E. Osborne