881.00/5–2745: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State ( Grew ) to the Ambassador in France ( Caffery )
2481. Please inform the Foreign Office that the Department would prefer to hold conversations in London with regard to Tangier, and [Page 612] will be prepared to do so as soon as American representatives can arrive there (urtel 2993, May 27, 11 a.m.). Although this Government agrees that the time has come to request the Spanish Government to withdraw from the International Zone of Tangier, the means by which this desired result may be obtained and the determination of the regime to be established should be determined only after the above-mentioned conversations have been held.25
Repeated to London as no. 4383, to Madrid as no. 930, and to Tangier as no. 115.
- Telegram 3308, June 5, 1945, 4 p.m., from Paris reads as follows: “Note delivered to FonOff morning June 5 on Tangier situation in accordance Deptel 2481, June 1 [2]. Brit Embassy has not yet received similar instructions but expects them soon.” (881.00/6–545)↩