740.00119 ACI/129: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Naples (Brandt)
122. For Kirk. The Department has given careful consideration to the resolution which Bogomolov proposes to introduce in the next session of the Council (your 81 of May 23, 4 p.m.). There appear to be no substantial objections to the recommendations contained or the sentiments expressed therein, except that it fails to take cognizance of the steps which the Italian Government has taken since April 27 in the elimination of Fascists from public life (your 56, May 16.54) You should endeavor to have inserted in the Soviet resolution some expression of recognition of the de-Fascistization program adopted recently by the Italian Government and about to become effective. With this amendment you are instructed to support the Soviet resolution. You should inform your British colleague of these instructions and you are of course free to inform the other members of the Council, including the Soviet representative, concerning the position you will take, if you consider it desirable.
It is our feeling that more harm from misunderstanding can result in continued efforts to block the Bogomolov resolution, whose sentiments appear consistent with our political aims in Italy, than by concurring in a recommendation of this nature to the Supreme Allied Commander who should not, and it is believed will not, consider it a serious criticism of Allied policy in Italy. It is of course the function of the Council to make recommendations of this nature from time to time to General Wilson, and we should not permit other national delegations to place us in a position of appearing reluctant to concur in general recommendations of a politically desirable nature.
Sent to Naples, repeated to Moscow, London, and Algiers for Murphy.55