Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/34041: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Harrison)

Washington, May 4, 1944—1 p.m.

1550. For Tittmann. Your 131, April 13—Bern’s 2580, April 22. With the concurrence of the War Department you may in your discretion acknowledge the Vatican’s memorandum of April 12 repeating that the Allied Commanders in the field have unquestionable evidence that the Abbey of Monte Cassino formed part of the German defensive system.35 We have no further comments to make at this time.

Sent to Bern, repeated to Algiers.

Hull
  1. For a discussion of this subject, see Martin Blumenson, Salerno to Cassino, in the official Army history United States Army in World War II (in preparation).↩