881.512/60
The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador (Howard)60
Excellency: I have the honor to refer to Your Excellency’s note No. 573 of December 7, 1928, concerning the desire of the International Administration of the Tangier Zone to secure the consent of the Government of the United States to the application to its nationals of any legislative measures which may be passed increasing existing or introducing new taxation and particularly of a proposed general measure relating to consumption duties and sometimes referred to as the “padlock law”. Under instructions from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Your Excellency expresses the hope of His Majesty’s Government that this Government will see its way to comply with a request for such consent made by the Resident-General to the American Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier.
I regret to inform Your Excellency that, after careful consideration by this Government of the request of the Resident-General for its consent to the application to its nationals and ressortissants of the general measure, this Government has not been able to see its way clear to granting the consent requested and that the American Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier has so informed [Page 526] the Resident-General in a note which sets forth the position of this Government as follows:
[Here follows text of note as quoted in instruction No. 505, January 29, 1929, printed on page 521.]
Accept [etc.]
- Similar replies were also made on February 27, 1929, to the Italian and Spanish Ambassadors (881.512/61, 69).↩