File No. 811.2222/131752/7
The Italian Ambassador ( Macchi di Cellere) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 20.]
Mr. Secretary of State: Your Excellency was pleased in connection with the contemplated military convention between Italy and the United States, to advise me, by your note of the 15th instant, of the precise meaning attached by the Government of the United States to that part of article 1 which provides that in regard to citizens of the United States the limits of military age shall be those set by the laws of the United States relative to obligatory military service.
[Here follows the substance of the Secretary’s note of August 15, supra.]
I therefore have the honor to assure you that the Royal Government will put upon the age limit for the enrollment of American citizens in Italy and upon the phrase “they enroll” the interpretation [Page 722] put by the Government of the United States upon those two points of the military convention soon to be concluded between Italy and the United States that have been made clear in the note which I have the honor to answer.
Accept [etc.]