852.2221/344: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier (Blake)
Your despatch No. 1268, March 26. Department perceives no objection application to American ressortissants in Morocco regulations governing travel from French Zone to or through the Spanish Zone of Morocco for purpose of preventing enlistment for military service in present Spanish civil strife, or to your notification to that effect in the sense of your note of March 10, 1937, to the Residency General at Rabat, with reservations mentioned antepenultimate paragraph of your despatch. Department is of the opinion that whether or not Section 5282 Revised Statutes is specifically applicable by its terms to extraterritorial countries it is unquestionably “a law of the United States” within the meaning of that term as used in Section 4086 Revised Statutes and, if deemed necessary and suitable to give effect to our treaties with Morocco, would appear to be properly applicable to American citizens in Morocco in the absence of an authoritative decision to the contrary.