740.00119 ACI/136: Telegram
The Consul General at Naples (Brandt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:36 p.m.]
116. From Kirk. Translation of Couve de Murville–Bogomolov resolutions drafted in French reads as follows:
“The Advisory Council for Italy, considering articles 3 and 4 of the Declaration on Italy adopted at the Moscow Conference according to which: ‘No. 3—all institutions and organizations created by the Fascist regime shall be suppressed, No. 4—all Fascist or pro-Fascist elements shall be removed from the direction and administration of public services’; considering that the existing conditions in liberated Italy as yet do not comply in general with the principles mentioned above;
Notes with satisfaction the declaration of April 27, 1944, of the Italian Government according to which the depuration program will be pursued energetically and carried out successfully as rapidly as possible as well as the measures which have been subsequently adopted or announced by that Government;
Expresses the wish that the above-mentioned Government will do its utmost to apply this declaration and these measures in a complete and rapid manner in order to democratize the internal administration of Italy, to improve thereby the situation from the standpoint of morale and to create an atmosphere favorable to the development of Italian participation in all measures necessary to the struggle against Hitlerite Germany.”
Brandt