740.00112 European War 1939/3386: Telegram
The Consul General at Algiers (Cole) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:47 p.m.]
451. From Murphy. Theodore Auer, German civilian Armistice Commission delegate to French Morocco, left Algiers this morning for Vichy and Paris. I am informed confidentially that he will discuss with the competent French and German authorities a German proposal to supply Morocco with textiles, various types of machinery including mining machinery and other commodities. Weygand’s services state they have lent a deaf ear to German suggestions along this line for some weeks past but they are apprehensive that the Germans will find support both on the part of certain French industrialists as well as members of the Government at Vichy.
Repeated to Vichy, true reading by courier to Casablanca, Tangier, Tunis. [Murphy.]