865.01/9–944: Telegram
The American Representative on the Advisor Council for Italy (Kirk) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 11—12:15 p.m.]
329. My next following telegram94 contains the text of a message which Count Sforza has brought me with the request that it be sent to the President.
Prior to Sforza’s visit the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs called on me and stated that the President of the Council had instructed him to tell me that if Sforza should ask me to send some message Bonomi would be grateful if I would notify my Government that he did not believe it expedient to hurt Sforza’s feelings by discouraging him from sending a message but that it should be regarded as a personal expression of Sforza’s. Bonomi, the Under Secretary added, wishes it understood that he is convinced that the US and British Governments have adequate appreciation of Italy’s problems and of the present plight of the Italian people and he fully trusts those Governments to aid in the solution of those problems within the just limit of possibility.
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