701.8365/8: Telegram
The Chargé in Egypt ( Hare ) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 13—11:40 a.m.]
103. Department’s 42, May 25th.7 The Under Secretary of State of the Egyptian Foreign Office informed me this morning that since the severance of relations with Italy yesterday the Foreign Office has been unable to communicate with the Egyptian Minister at Rome. The Under Secretary requested that the American Ambassador at Rome inform the Egyptian Minister there of the severance of relations and the termination of his mission and endeavor to arrange for the immediate departure, under appropriate guarantees, of the Minister [Page 469] and his staff overland via Yugoslavia, Turkey and Palestine. Upon arrival at the Yugoslav frontier the Egyptian Government should immediately be notified by telegraph in order that the Italian Minister and his staff here may be permitted to leave Egypt at the same time. It is requested that the foregoing be transmitted in the Department’s discretion to the Ambassador at Rome and that he be requested to advise me immediately of the results of such action as he may take. There has not been a declaration of war by Egypt on Italy.
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