740.00119 Control (Italy)/11: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the American Representative to the French Committee of National Liberation at Algiers (Wilson)
212. For Murphy for your information. The Soviet Chargé d’Affaires24 called on me on December 21 concerning the appointment of a Soviet member on the Allied Control Commission in Italy.25 (Your 154, December 14, 10 p.m., and Section 2 of your 170, December 17, 11 p.m. [a.m.]) I told him that I favored placing a Soviet representative on this Commission and that I would give the matter immediate attention. Later the same day I had an opportunity to discuss the matter with the President who also expressed himself in favor of Soviet representation on the Commission. With reference to the request of the French Committee for similar representation, the President said that there was to be no representative of the French Committee on the Allied Control Commission. The War Department has been informed of the foregoing.