875.6363/80
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Albania (Grant-Smith)
Sir: The receipt is acknowledged of your despatches No. 57 of March 21st7 and No. 60 of March 30th, 1923, enclosing, respectively, a copy of an Aide Memoire handed to the Albanian Minister for Foreign Affairs on March 4th by the French Chargé d’Affaires, and a copy of a Pro-Memoria, dated March 3rd, which was sent to the Albanian Foreign Office by the Italian Minister on March 30th.
It is noted with gratification that in the Aide-Memoire and the Pro-Memoria the French and Italian representatives referred to their desire to see the principle of the Open Door applied in Albania. It would be helpful to the Department to be informed whether any publicity has been given to these two communications, and if not, whether they were obtained by you from the French and Italian representatives under circumstances which would permit the Department to make reference to these communications in correspondence with the Italian and French governments, respectively, as indicating the attitude of France and Italy with respect to the principle of the Open Door and the subject of monopolistic concessions in the event that a case should arise which might make such reference desirable.
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