611.8131/65a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Matthews)
789. Upon the arrival of Murphy, please bring to his particular attention your telegrams nos. 904 and 934 of November 6, 5 p.m. and November 11, 8 p.m., and the Department’s nos. 706 and 731 of November 9, 10 p.m. and November 18, 7 p.m.95 Please communicate also to him the following:
“The Department has forwarded by air mail to the Legation at Lisbon an instruction to you enclosing a memorandum96 with which it is desired that you acquaint yourself before proceeding to North Africa. As it is understood that you are proceeding to North Africa by way of Lisbon, you may obtain the instruction from the Legation at that time.
[Page 623]At Tangier, you should request the Diplomatic Agent to acquaint you with the Department’s telegram97 concerning the interview he was instructed to have with Monick, Secretary General of the French Residency at Rabat, regarding Ameriean-Morrocan trade, as well as with the results of that interview.
Before calling on General Weygand in Algiers, you should consult the Department’s telegram no. 91 of November 13, 9 p.m. to Algiers. In your interview with Weygand, when, of course, you will refer to the communication Cole was instructed to make to him, you should acquaint him with the general purport of the communication made to Monick by White.”
- Telegram No. 731, November 18, 7 p.m., not printed, but see telegram No. 91, November 13, 9 p.m., to the Consul General at Algiers, p. 616, and footnote 88.↩
- There is no indication in the Department files of such an instruction to Lisbon. However, an unnumbered instruction was sent to Tangier for Murphy, November 27, 1940, enclosing a memorandum dated November 12, 1940, entitled “The Political Implications of American-Moroccan Trade”; merely a detailed summary of political and economic developments in French North Africa, June–November, 1940. (740.0011 European War 1939/7043a.)↩
- Supra.↩