865.4016/120: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Italy (Reed)
Washington, December 10, 1938—3
p.m.
125. Your 367, December 9, 5 p.m. In reply to requests for advice you should make it clear that the American Government does not admit the right of a foreign government to discriminate between Americans on account of race or creed; that it will maintain this position in any protests it may make, but that each citizen must decide for himself what action he may consider most useful in connection with his individual case.
Welles