Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1942, The Near East and Africa, Volume IV

740.0011 European War 1939/26699: Telegram

The Chargé at Tangier (Childs) to the Secretary of State

Tangier, December 24, 1942—3 p.m.
[Received December 25—7:35 a.m.]

888. Castillo, Spanish Minister here, strongly intimated to my Belgian colleague a few days ago that the Spanish Government would welcome the presence of strong American forces in proximity to the Spanish Moroccan frontier as a counter-weight to the German forces in German occupied France on the Spanish border.

Repeated to Madrid and Casablanca.

Childs