Office of the Historian

740.00114 European War 1939/2045: Telegram

The Chargé in Switzerland (Huddle) to the Secretary of State

Bern, January 6, 1942.
[Received January 6—4:38 p.m.]

56. American Interests, Italy. Reference Department’s 830, December 18. Swiss Foreign Office in note dated January 5 transmits following telegram from Swiss Legation, Rome (French translation): [Page 24]

“Italian Government communicates its agreement to American proposal for application Geneva Conventions 1929 concerning treatment prisoners of war and wounded. Italian Government agrees to apply benefits first convention to civilian internees to the extent that they are applicable in kind. Copy note verbale January 2d follows.”3

Huddle
  1. See infra. ↩