881.00/5–2945: Telegram
The Chargé at Tangier ( Childs ) to the Secretary of State
Tangier
, May 29,
1945—3 p.m.
[Received 5:37 p.m.]
[Received 5:37 p.m.]
146. Paris’ No. 6, May 27.17 There are several objections from our point of view to the reintegration of the Tangier Statute of 1923, namely:
- (1)
- Original objections which we formulated, including the disproportionate participation allotted the United States, i.e. one seat in the Legislative Assembly as compared with three for Great Britain, and four each for France and Spain.
- (2)
- Restoration of a Spanish administrator-in-chief and preponderance given Spain and France in statute with revival political rivalry of those two powers to the Dept [sic] to the detriment of Tangier which we and British at least are agreed should be avoided by all possible means in any new statute.
- (3)
- The practical difficulty of our adhering to an admittedly unsatisfactory instrument while awaiting the elaboration of an improved statute.
Sent to Dept rptd to Paris, Madrid and London.
Childs