881.113/31: Telegram
The Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier (Blake) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 21—9:44 a.m.]
20. 1. Resident General requests validation of dahir of August 17, 1936, temporarily prohibiting exportation, transit, transshipment or reexportation from French to Spanish zone, Ceuta and Melilla, of petroleum products, lubricating materials and motor vehicles.
2. Measures not intended to obstruct private transportation by automobile vehicles carrying on habitual inter-zonal transport nor operation of said transportation services.
3. Unless Department sees no [any] objection to the inclusion of these articles among prohibited war supplies, acceptance recommended [Page 500] subject to usual reservations safeguarding Consular Court jurisdiction, and conditional upon application of the decree to concerns or individuals of all nationalities without discrimination.57
- Telegram No. 11, August 24, 2 p.m., from the Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier stated: “Your August 20, 5 p.m. Approved.”↩