875.6363/64: Telegram
The Minister in Albania (Grant-Smith) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:03 p.m.]
27. This morning the French Chargé handed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs an aide-mémoire demanding the Open Door for all concessions granted foreigners which is translation of pertinent portions of my memorandum of March 2 reported in my despatch no. 50, March 5. The French proposals for an archeological concession4 have been altered, he says, to be in harmony therewith. He volunteered the information that the application for a British tobacco monopoly would be opposed. I should be glad to receive instructions as to how far the Legation should support, if requested to do so, the French representations in this regard.
- See vol. ii, p. 17 ff.↩