124.842/145: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Italy (Kirk)
95. Your 290, July 25, 2 p.m. Department’s 93, July 24, 4 p.m. was repeated to the Minister Resident at Addis Ababa who in reply telegraphed on July 25 as follows:58
“His Excellency, Marshal Graziani, received me very cordially this morning and assured me that he personally had no objection to a solution in the sense desired by the Department.”
Since the Italian Government previously has apparently contended that matters of this kind are for the decision of Marshal Graziani in the exercise of his responsibilities in Ethiopia, you should, in any further conversations at the Foreign Office, stress the fact that the Marshal has no objection to the use of codes by the American Legation and state that the Department confidently assumes that the Decree of July 21, 1936, will be interpreted so as to permit the use of codes by the American Legation in communicating with Washington.
- Telegram No. 489, July 25, noon.↩