681.006/66: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier (Blake)
Washington, September 15, 1939—4
p.m.
15. Casablanca’s 4, September 12, 11 a.m. Please make a formal reservation of American treaty rights as affected by the decree of September 9 prohibiting importations into French Morocco. With respect to article 4 state that this Government cannot admit the validity of any regulation which would accord preferential treatment to French and Algerian goods and that it protests emphatically against such discrimination.
Hull