Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Information – in the House of Commons at on 24 March 1943.
Mr Edgar Granville
, Eye
asked the Minister of Information whether despatches from British war correspondents in North Africa have to pass through Tangier; and whether the Post Office there is now under international or Spanish control?
Mr Brendan Bracken
, Paddington North
According to my information, the present arrangements for the despatches of British war correspondents in North Africa do not require them to pass through Tangier. In answer to the second part of the Question, the British Post Office at Tangier remains under British control.
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