740.00119 European War 1939/11–2545
The Italian Ambassador (Tarchiani) to the Secretary of State
The Italian Ambassador presents his compliments to the Honorable the Secretary of State and has the honor to convey to him the expression of the thankfulness of the Italian Government for the American initiative in regard to the revision of the armistice regime, of which communication18 has been given to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs by the American Embassy in Rome on November 21st.
The Italian Government has deeply appreciated the friendly terms of the American communication and has acknowledged with the greatest satisfaction the fact that the United States Government is favorable to such a revision and that it has accordingly provided to inform [Page 1089] the other signatory Powers of its position on the subject and to ask their views.
The Italian Government feels that, after over twenty months of loyal and active co-belligerence, and after having—thanks to an American initiative—come in sight of peace at the London Conference, only a substantial revision putting an end to the state of war, would bring an improvement of the Italian situation.
To this end, the Italian Ambassador has been expressly directed to keep himself at the disposal of the Secretary of State in order to furnish any information that may be deemed useful.