701.0065/10–2744: Telegram
The American Representative on the Advisory Council for Italy (Kirk) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 27—3:39 p.m.]
604. Morning press publishes following official communiqué on Italian resumption of diplomatic relations with United Nations.
“Italian Government has been officially informed today that all of the Latin American Republics have decided to resume diplomatic relations with Italy. Since the United [States] had already made [Page 1186] the same decision86 and as relations with Argentina have continued normally, Italy now finds itself in full diplomatic relations with the whole American continent. In Europe following the decision of Great Britain to resume relations with Italy,87 Russia has also acted. The Soviet Union announced to President of the Council Bonomi last night its decision that its present representative in Italy will have the rank of Ambassador as will the Italian representat[ive] in Moscow through reciprocity. The Italian Government has already given its-agreement to the naming of M. Kostylev88 as Soviet Ambassador in Rome. With these decisions Italy emerges from isolation and resumes normal relations with the world.”
- After consultations with the other American Republics as provided in article I, part IV of the Resolutions of Rio de Janeiro, 1942, the Secretary of State announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with Italy on October 26, 1944. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Alexander O. Kirk as Ambassador to Italy on December 7, 1944. For the Resolutions of Rio de Janeiro, see Department of State Bulletin, February 7, 1942, pp. 117–141. For the Secretary’s announcement and information on Mr. Kirk’s appointment, see ibid., October 29, 1944, pp. 491 and 736, respectively.↩
- October 26, 1944. The Department was notified in a memorandum of September 23, 1944, that the British Government would name Sir Noel Charles, British Representative on the Advisory Council for Italy, as Ambassador (701.4165/10–544).↩
- Mikhail Alexeyevich Kostylev.↩