Office of the Historian

740.0011 Moscow/46: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Delegation

Washington, October 25, 1943—6 p.m.

1086. Amdel No. 44. For Dunn from Atherton. In view of my understanding and the American Section of the Civil Affairs [Page 636] Committee, I suggest it should be understood that the last sentence of paragraph 3 of your 1693, October 22, midnight,81 might properly have read “He pointed out that the High Commissioners of the countries represented would also care for the interests of their respective governments and nationals (with the following addition) ‘through the machinery of the Allied Control Commission’”. This would estop the High Commissioners or their staffs from dealing directly with the Italian Government. [Atherton.]

Stettinius
  1. Telegram not printed; it contained a report of the meeting of October 22, 1943. The sentence quoted corresponds to the penultimate sentence of the fifth paragraph of the summary of the Fourth Plenary Meeting, p. 604.↩