740.00112 European War 1939/5352: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Cole)
Washington, May 4,
1942.
128. For Murphy. Your 265, April 27, 2 p.m. While the Department is unwilling to approve of any action which might tend to facilitate the export of edible oils from French West Africa to metropolitan France, it does not intend to insist at this time on the restriction of Algerian alcohol shipments destined for West Africa.
Hull