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The Ambassador in Spain (Hammond) to
the Secretary of State
San
Sebastián, September 14,
1926.
[Received September 27.]
No. 157
Sir: I have the honor to refer the Department
to my telegram No. 73 of September 9, 12 noon,16 and to transmit herewith a
copy, in original and in translation, of a note, No. 163 dated September
7, 1926, received from the Spanish Secretary of State relative to the
invitation of the Spanish Government to the governments signatory to the
Act of Algeciras to participate in a conference for the determination of
the future status of Tangier.
I have [etc.]
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[Enclosure—Translation]
The Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs (Yanguas) to the American
Ambassador (Hammond)
San
Sebastián, September 7,
1926.
No. 163
Excellency: With reference to Your
Excellency’s note of September 1, 1926,17 I
have the honor to express the profound gratitude of the Government
of His Catholic Majesty for the especial evidence of the high esteem
and appreciation given to Spain by the Government of the United
States with respect to the initiative of this Government looking to
the holding of a conference in which the Tangier question should be
examined.
Coincidentally with the favorable reply of the United States and of
other invited nations, the Spanish Government received the reply of
the governments of Great Britain and France, in which the opinion
was expressed that the method to be followed in an examination of
the Tangier question should be preferably the one indicated by the
two governments in proposing to that of Spain the assembling of a
tripartite conference of the States signatory to the Statute.
The Government of His Catholic Majesty considers, as does that of the
United States, that the Conference, the holding of which it had
suggested to the latter at the same time as to the other governments
signatory to the Act of Algeciras who retain interest in Tangier,
would not be useful without the assistance of the principal Powers
interested in Morocco.
In view of the opinion expressed by the Governments of Great Britain
and France, the Spanish Government believes that its original idea
may find opportunity for realization when the preliminary
conversations to which it is now invited by the other two Powers
signatory to the Statute of 1923, shall have prepared the way for a
broader sphere of understanding, in which Spain considers, and will
so state adequately at the proper time, that the cooperation of the
United States should not be lacking.
I avail myself [etc.]
