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File No. 763.72/11729

The Italian Ambassador ( Macchi di Cellere) to the Assistant Secretary of State ( Phillips)

Washington, September 30, 1918.
[Received October 1.]

My Dear Mr. Phillips: With reference to our conversation of today I hasten to inform you that the Royal Italian Government has recently declared that they consider “the movement of the Jugo-Slav peoples for the conquest of their independence and for their constitution into a free state as being in accordance with the principles for which the Allies are fighting and with the aims of a just and lasting peace.”

Believe me [etc.]

Macchi di Cellere