875.00/35

The Secretary of State to the British Chargé ( Barclay )

No. 315

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Note No. 1234 of November 6, 1918,1 stating that His Majesty’s Government have learned from Berne that the Albanians in Switzerland intend to make a request to the Italian Government for their immediate sanction to bring under a single administration all the liberated districts of Albania, and that His Majesty’s Government are of the opinion that no action of a nature to prejudice this should be taken, and they also feel that nothing should be done to prejudice the consideration of the Albanian question by the Peace Congress, and requesting an expression of the views of the United States Government on this question.

In reply I beg to inform you that the United States Government is not contemplating any action regarding Albania pending the Peace Conference.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing
  1. Not printed.