865.01/2661: Telegram
The Consul General at Naples (Brandt) to the Secretary of State
Naples, June
17, 1944—1 p.m.
[Received 1:20 p.m.]
[Received 1:20 p.m.]
218. From Kirk.
The Advisory Council for Italy have examined the events leading up to the formation of the proposed new government by Signor Bonomi and they consider that in all the circumstances this government should prove satisfactory in furthering the main purpose of the Allied Powers which is the final defeat of Germany.
They must however insist that:
- (1)
- The new Government express their readiness in writing to accept all obligations toward the Allies entered into by the former Italian Governments since the conclusion of the armistice signed on the third of September, 1943, and that every member of the Government should be personally acquainted with the terms of all such obligations including the terms of the armistice signed on twenty-ninth of September, 1943;
- (2)
- The new Government undertake not to reopen the institutional question until such time as Italy has been liberated and the Italian people can freely express their views.
Repeated to Algiers. [Kirk.]
Brandt