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File No. 763.72/8648

The Ambassador in Italy ( Page) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Rome, January 25, 1918, 5 p.m.
[Received 7 p.m.]

1382. I have just seen a copy of the secret treaty, April 25 [26], 1915, between Italy, France, England and Russia; presume that you [Page 43] have seen it as it appeared in Russia1 and in the English magazine New Europe. It has not been published in Italy nor, I believe, in France. Prime Minister Orlando has gone to England accompanied by Minister of War and Crespi, Food Commissioner to Paris, to seek a reaffirmation of this secret treaty in view of the speeches by the President and Lloyd George. It is reported that Orlando and Sonnino had a stiff quarrel; the latter refused to go to England saying that he had the Allies’ written promise and he was against discussing the matter.

Nelson Page
  1. See Foreign Relations, 1917, Supplement 2, vol. I, pp. 497–500.↩