881.512/62: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier (Blake)
[Paraphrase]
Washington, December 27, 1928—3
p.m.
17. Reference your despatch 343, December 4, 1928.
- (1)
- You will mail the text of the French Resident General’s communication which transmitted the projected “padlock law”. Pending issuance of instructions to you, you are confidentially informed of the extreme unlikelihood of this Government acceding to any such proposal.
- (2)
- Respecting assent in advance to the proposed four taxation measures, the Department, although it would probably not see any objection to giving assent to application of the measures to American nationals, does desire to examine the texts of proposed measures prior to authorizing you to give this Government’s consent, which could then be given upon the adoption without amendment of such measures and after the usual formal request had been made for consent.
Kellogg