125.0051/396: Telegram
The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:28 p.m.]
1314. This is from Murphy. Your 1352, July 22, 9 p.m. I wish to assure the Department that every effort will be made to obtain custody of accredited civilian German officials. I am bringing this matter to the personal attention of General Eisenhower and other members of the Allied Staff. It might be mentioned that we had this matter very much in mind at the time of the Allied landings in November when we hoped to seize person of the German Consul General in Casablanca Theodore Auer. Due to the delay, however, in the landing of our forces and the aid Auer received from a French official he succeeded in escaping by motor car over the Spanish Moroccan frontier. [Murphy.]