681.003/70
The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier (Blake)
Sir: There is enclosed herewith for your information copy of despatch No. 897 of August 17, 1934, received from the Embassy in London22 in response to the Department’s instruction requesting that discreet inquiries be made with a view to determining whether the French Government has taken up with the British Government the matter of the proposed modification of the customs régime in French Morocco, through a revision or abrogation of the Act of Algeciras.
The Department would be pleased to receive your comments upon the statements attributed to the unofficial spokesman of the British Foreign Office. Perhaps it would not be amiss if you should sound out the representative of the British Government in Tangier, obtaining his views upon the subject, refraining from quoting directly the remarks of the representative of the British Foreign Office.
Very truly yours,