File No. 763.72119/2377a
The Secretary of State to the Italian Ambassador ( Macchi di Cellere)1
Excellency: I have the honor to enclose herewith certain communications which have passed between the Government of the United States and the Government of Germany, relative to an armistice and the terms of a treaty of peace between the belligerents in the present war, with the request that you transmit the same to your Government.
The President instructs me to make request that your Government take this correspondence under careful consideration and communicate, at its convenience, its views and conclusions concerning it.
The President desires especially an expression of the decision of Your Excellency’s Government as to its willingness and readiness to acquiesce and take part in the course of action with regard to an armistice which is suggested in my note of October 23, 1918, to the Chargé d’Affaires of Switzerland, in which is set forth the decision of the President with regard to the submission of the question of an armistice to the Governments with which the Government of the United States is associated in the prosecution of the war against Germany, and with regard to the manner in which the terms of an armistice are to be determined provided an armistice at this time is deemed possible from the military point of view.
I wish to point out to your Government that the President has endeavored to safeguard with the utmost care the interests of the peoples at war with Germany in every statement made in the enclosed correspondence, and that it is his sincere hope that your Government will think that he has succeeded and will be willing to cooperate in the steps which he has suggested.
Accept [etc.]
- The same, on the same date, to the diplomatic representatives of Belgium (No. 118), Brazil (No. 249), China (No. 88), Cuba (No. 283), France (No. 2273), Great Britain (No. 295), Greece (No. 68), Guatemala (No. 128), Haiti (No. 37), Honduras (No. 70), Japan (No. 16), Montenegro (No. 2), Nicaragua (No. 74), Panama (No. 101), Portugal (No. 201), Russia (No. 65), Serbia (No. 80), and Siam (No. 24). For note of Oct. 25 to the Rumanian Chargé, see post, p. 782.↩