881.00/8–1345: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
Paris, August 13,
1945—7 p.m.
[Received August 13—6:58 p.m.]
[Received August 13—6:58 p.m.]
4892. From Villard. We feel that existing rights of United States in Tangier would be adequately protected by inclusion of following reservations in our eventual acceptance of invitation to participate in provisional Tangier regime:
- 1.
- Such collaboration shall not imply adherence by the US to the Paris Convention of Dec 18, 1923 or to the final protocol of July 25, 1928 which purported to create an international statute for the Tangier Zone in Morocco;
- 2.
- The position of the US, the status of its representatives, the establishment, authority and powers of its extraterritorial jurisdiction, all and any rights accruing to the US and to its nationals and ressortissants from treaty, custom and usage as they existed throughout the territories of the Sherifian Empire prior to the introduction into the Tangier Zone of the administration proceeding from the above-mentioned Convention of 1923 and the Protocol of 1928, shall not be deemed to be modified or abridged in any manner by reason of the collaboration of representatives of the United States in Tangier in the provisional administration of the Tangier Zone of the Sherifian Empire;
- 3.
- Nothing in the terms, as at present stated or as they may later be modified, of the provisional agreement or Sherifian Dahirs which may make that agreement applicable, shall be deemed to prejudice the giving of consideration, in the formulation of a new regime for Tangier, to the placing of such a regime within the general framework of the United Nations Organization.58
Copies by pouch to Tangier, Madrid, London and Moscow. [Villard.]
Caffery
- The Department’s reply, in telegram 3859, August 15, 1945, 2 p.m., to Paris, stated: “For Villard. Suggestions contained in your 4889 of Aug. 13, 1 p.m., and your 4892 of Aug. 13, 7 p.m. are approved.” (881.00/8–1345)↩