211.65/100: Telegram

The Ambassador in Italy (Long) to the Secretary of State

51. Department’s telegram No. 14, March 10, 1 p.m. Matter taken up with Foreign Office and I am now in receipt of reply from Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs as follows: [Page 602]

[“] As the Embassy knows the Royal Government in 1927 suggested that it would be well to open negotiations for such a convention proposing that they should be held in Rome and the Department of State courteously agreed.

I trust, therefore, that it will still be agreeable to hold the negotiations in Rome and in that connection I feel it might be well to transmit to Your Excellency at this time the enclosed draft convention.17 This draft is upon the same basis as the extradition treaties which the Royal Government has concluded with other countries during the past few years and which have proved entirely satisfactory.

In any event I shall be pleased to furnish Your Excellency with any other information and explanations which may be thought useful.

Mail despatch follows. Please instruct.

Long
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