893.01 Manchuria/1471: Telegram
The Ambassador in Italy (Phillips) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 29—3:11 p.m.]
493. It is officially announced this afternoon that the Italian Government has today formally recognized Manchukuo and intends to establish a legation at Hsinking. The press publishes a telegram from Ciano66 to Hirota67 conveying this information and stating that the Italian Consul General at Mukden has been instructed to communicate it officially to the government of Manchukuo, as well as a telegram addressed to the Foreign Minister of Manchukuo, in which Ciano expresses the cordial greetings of the Italian Government and people and sincere good wishes for the future of Manchukuo.
Gayda68 this evening states that this recognition “confirms the realistic character of Italy’s foreign policy and consecrates not only the new and definite situation created on the Asiatic Continent but also the results of Japanese policy designed to create that situation”. He adds that Italy’s present action clearly and courageously breaks with the hesitancy shown by other nations and sanctions the irrevocably accomplished fact of the independence of Manchukuo which together with Jehol is at Japan’s side a bulwark against communism in Asia.