Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/10149: Telegram

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

Tangier, April 21, 1941—noon.
[Received 4:50 p.m.]

107. I was informed by Meyrier, the principal assistant to Noguès in Rabat, that Hitler had said privately recently the following in substance: “I know what is going on in French North Africa. That does not disturb me. I know precisely how many tanks and planes the French have there and I can crush in 3 days any movement that raises its head there.”

Childs