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June 03, 1942 – Dispatch slip, to the Secretary General for Foreign Affairs, of a letter dated May 23, 1942 from the Secretary of State for War, relating to the authorization of residence of families in North Africa, and requesting its feeling on the matter. The letter itself is not on the file.

June 25, 1942 – General Noguès, Resident General of France in Rabat, writes to the Head of Government, Minister of Foreign Affairs to tell him that he agrees to the proposal of General Bridoux, who in his letter of May 23, exposes the housing problem in the French zone. He asks that the families of military personnel and of the Administration whose Head has been transferred to Morocco be allowed to go there only if they can produce an accommodation certificate and a passport with an adequate visa. The Resident General wants « the measures to be extended to Navy and Air personnel ». He also asks that the families of the same personnel who will have been transferred subsequently in France, or in Algeria or Tunisia, are no longer authorized to remain in the territory of the Protectorate.

July 16, 1942 – In parallel with this request, a note written in Vichy by the Director of the Office of Morocco for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tightens the conditions for obtaining passports and visas for Morocco, mainly to respond to the housing crisis. They concern both ordinary French individuals, civil servants or soldiers, and Moroccan subjects.