Office of the Historian

500.A15A5/696: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Davis)

Washington, February 28, 1936—7 p.m.

50. The Italian Ambassador called at the Department this morning and stated that he had received a telegram from his Foreign Office indicating that the Italian Government was unable at this time to enter into a naval treaty.

The Ambassador mentioned that the Italian Government felt that before it could accept a naval agreement certain questions in addition to technical details had to be settled, namely, the sanctions now pending against Italy and the unsatisfactory reply of the British Government to the Italian representations regarding mutual assistance against Italy by Great Britain, France, Yugoslavia, Turkey and Greece.63

Hull
  1. See British Cmd. 5072, Ethiopia No. 2 (1936): Dispute between Ethiopia and Italy. ↩