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The Italian Embassy to the Department of State30
Italy is fully convinced that the United States are not asking for any privilege in the Island of Yap which is not equally granted to every other nation, including Japan. Italy is also convinced that the United States intend to protect their interests in the Island of Yap with full consideration for the interests of other nations.
Italy therefore has not hesitated to harmonize its language with the declaration contained in the last part of the note of the United States of the 5th instant,32 concerning the equality of rights of the mandatories in the exercise of all the mandates. Italy wishes and trusts that the just rights of everybody concerned be recognized always and everywhere, in the Island of Yap as well as in every other place and circumstance, with perfect equality and justice.
Italy seconded the Anglo-French proposal which confided the study of the Yap question to the Juridical Committee and the Conference of the Ambassadors in Paris, and she now expects that the Conference will pronounce itself impartially in such way as to eliminate every possibility of disagreement and to conciliate all conflicting interests.
Italy is particularly glad whenever the moral policies of the two Governments and the material interests of the two nations agree in such a way as to put Italy and the United States in a position to cooperate towards the attainment of the common end, which consists in the realization of an era of serene peace and prosperity for the civilized world.