665.116/350: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Italy (Phillips)
21. Embassy’s telegram No. 41 of February 26, 11 a.m.6 If the Embassy sees no objection you are requested to inform the appropriate authorities that the Department is appreciative of the willingness of the competent Ministry to discuss the proposed quota allotments before they become definite. As our studies of these proposals after they are received here may be expected to take some time, and as it would be undesirable to leave traders in doubt meanwhile of the status of quotas in which they are interested, you are requested further, if you see no objection, to express the hope that there will be no delay in publication by the Italian Government of the tentative quota allocations to the United States and in the issuance of the necessary import permits against those allocations, without prejudice, however, to possible requests we may make for revision in accordance with the terms of the temporary commercial arrangement.
- Not printed: it reported the receipt on February 23 of the text of the pro memoria of February 19 from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Exchange, printed supra.↩