740.00119 ACI/3: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)
2097. For Murphy. Your recommendations concerning invitation to French Committee (your 1946, November 8, 6 p.m.) are approved and the Embassies at London and Moscow have been so informed. The Embassies have been asked to arrange if possible to have appropriate instructions sent to Macmillan and Bogomolov by their Governments. You should not, of course, extend the invitation to the Committee until after General Eisenhower has announced the establishment of the Allied Control Commission for Italy which, it is understood, will occur at 10 p.m. Algiers time, November 10.
When you see Massigli you should inform him of the decision to establish an Advisory Council representative of certain of the United Nations in conjunction with the establishment of the Allied Control Commission for Italy. If it is necessary to describe the functions of the Council, you should not go beyond the language used in the Joint Communiqué of the Tripartite Conference at Moscow or that used by General Eisenhower in announcing the Allied Control Commission.97
- For text of Joint Communiqué of November 1, 1943, see vol. i, p. 741; for substance of General Eisenhower’s announcement of November 10, 1943, see United States and Italy, 1986–1946, p. 76.↩