740.0011 European War 1939/6651: Telegram
The Ambassador in Spain (Weddell) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:38 a.m.]
639. My 635, November 12, 1 p.m. The following decree of the Chief of State dated November 9 is published in today’s Boletín Oficial.
“The organizations of the statute having been suppressed in the Zone of Tangier, the Governor Delegate of the High Commission of Spain in Morocco has provisionally assumed the functions of government and administration thereof until further notice extended thereto the general regime established for the Spanish Protectorate; and this juridical situation being incompatible with the character previously held by the former diplomatic representation of Spain in the said zone I decree on the proposal of the Minister of Foreign Affairs:
Article I: that from the time of publication of the present decree and as a consequence of the incorporation of Tangier in the zone of the Spanish Protectorate the Consulate General of Spain established there shall have the characteristics and functions of the other Consulates of our Protectorate.”