211.65/101: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Italy (Long)
24. Your 51, April 3, 11 a.m. You may inform the Italian Foreign Office that this Government is willing to defer to its desire that the negotiations be conducted in Rome.
The Embassy’s despatch No. 2165 of February 28, 1929,17 states that on January 18, 1929, the Embassy delivered to the Minister of Foreign Affairs a draft extradition convention, and that the competent Italian authorities were studying that draft. The Department’s files do not indicate, however, that the Italian Government has made any comment on that draft. We should prefer that the matter be taken up where it was dropped in 1929 rather than to begin now by studying the Italian draft mentioned in your telegram. Please ascertain whether this procedure would be agreeable to the Italian Government.
- Not printed.↩