862.24/386a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Casablanca (Stanton)
113. Please urgently request Reed of Socony Vacuum45 to endeavor to check through his organization a report which has reached the Department to the effect that under German pressure French authorities in Tunisia have advanced for use of Axis forces in North Africa considerable quantities of petroleum products, particularly from French naval reserve at Bizerte, as well as a number of tanks and other equipment.
The subject45a of the Department’s telegram No. 21 of January 2946 might also be consulted in this regard.