881.00/11–2045
The Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at
Tangier (Alling) to the Secretary of State
No. 147
Tangier, November 20,
1945.
[Received November 28.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the
Department’s telegram No. 268 of October 26 [24],
1945 concerning the position of the United States in relation to the
International Administration of Tangier and to enclose a copy of my note
dated November 6, 1945, on that subject, addressed to the President of
the Committee of Control. I also enclose a copy of the reply4 addressed to me by the President of the Committee.
The Department will observe that my note of November 6 repeats the
reservations contained in the Department’s Note of September 22, 1945
addressed to the French Embassy at Washington accepting the invitation
of the French Government to participate in the Tangier Administration.
So far as I have been able to learn the French Government has not
followed the suggestion contained in the final paragraph of the
above-mentioned note and informed the governments concerned regarding
the position of the United States in this matter. However, the President
of the Committee of Control has now transmitted a copy of my note of
November 6, 1945, to other members of the Committee, as will be observed
from his note of November 17, 1945.
Respectfully yours,
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[Enclosure]
The Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at
Tangier (Alling) to the President
of the Committee of Control (De Beauverger)
Tangier, November 6,
1945.
Mr. Minister and Dear Colleague: In
reference to the acceptance by my Government of the invitation of
the French and British Governments to participate in the
administration of Tangier on the basis of the provisional regime
provided for in the final act of the Conference of Experts held at
Paris during August 1945, I have the honor to transcribe hereunder
the reservations under which such participation is conditioned.
“In accepting this invitation, the United States Government
wishes to point out that such collaboration on its part in the
provisional regime so established does not imply adherence by
the United States to the Paris Convention of December 18, 1923,
or to the final protocol of July 25, 1928, which had as their
object the creation of an international statute for the Tangier
Zone in Morocco. The collaboration of representatives of the
United States at Tangier in the provisional administration of
the Zone shall not be deemed to modify or abridge in any manner:
(1) the position of the United States, (2) the status of its
representatives, (3) the establishment, authority and powers of
its extraterritorial jurisdiction, and (4) any rights accruing
to the United States and to its nationals and ressortissants from treaty, custom, and usage as they
existed throughout the territories of the Shereefian Empire
prior to the introduction into the Tangier Zone of the
administration resulting from the above-mentioned convention of
1923 and the protocol of 1928.”
I shall be obliged if you will be good enough to bring the present
communication to the attention of the Committee of Control at its
next session and cause it to be recorded in the minutes of the
proceedings.5
Please accept [etc.]
