881.00/8–1745: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Caffery)
3892. For Villard. Urtel 4977, Aug. 17, 7. p.m. The Dept is opposed to including in the agreement clauses which would restrict for the benefit of foreign interests the natural economic development of Tangier or which would prevent the establishment in Tangier of legitimate commercial enterprises which might contribute to the prosperity of its inhabitants. The Dept therefore objects to the Brit proposal. It concurs in Villard’s second alternative which appears to insure possibility establishment of US broadcasting stations in Tangier if desired as well as liberty to install and operate US commercial radiotelegraph stations. This latter privilege considered important but imminence of establishment of any such station should under no circumstances be intimated.
Sent Paris 3892; rptd Tangier 194; London 7017; Madrid 1420.