Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1921, Volume II

862i.01/64

The Ambassador in Italy (Johnson) to the Acting Secretary of State

Rome, December 28, 1920.
[Received January 19, 1921.]

No. 255

Sir: Referring to the Department’s telegraphic instruction No. 233 of December 6th, five p.m.,¹⁷ I have the honor to report that I duly transmitted to Count Sforza the Department’s communication setting forth the views of the American Government relative to the status of the Island of Yap, and have received the reply enclosed.

I have [etc.]

Robert Underwood Johnson

[Enclosure—Translation]

The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Sforza) to the American Ambassador (Johnson)

[Rome, December 24, 1920.]

Uff. IIA.–53245/282

Mr. Ambassador: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s Note No. 232 [233] of December 10th relative to the question of the Island of Yap.

I have not failed to take into careful examination all that is set forth therein, and I hasten to inform you that the Italian Government, as I have already communicated to the Japanese Embassy, will be very glad to interest itself in order that this question—of which it recognizes all the importance—may reach an equable solution which will reconcile the various claims of the Powers interested.

Accept [etc.]

Sforza

17. See footnote 13, p. 268.