681.003/100: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Straus) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 18—1:55 p.m.]
943. Reference your 500, December 17, 6 p.m. Saw Leger46 who assures me that France has no desire to promulgate new customs regulations in Morocco in violation of conventions and treaties. He tells me that because of distressed industrial conditions in Morocco some modification of present regime must be sought, that negotiations are now in satisfactory progress with Great Britain and Spain and that subsequently negotiations with us will be sought.
Leger expressed the opinion that the present government would last a considerable time possibly until the 1936 elections.
- Alexis Leger, Assistant Political Director of the French Foreign Office.↩