740.00119 Council/9–745: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State
Delsec53 4. Re draft Italian treaty Secretary of State requests immediate alternative draft of military and naval clauses. Alternative draft to describe minimum numbers of land forces required for maintenance of internal order in Italy and in Italy’s African territories on assumption latter will be a responsibility of Italy, at least as administrator.
On assumption that one third Italian Navy may be transferred to USSR, and that additional Italian vessels may be transferred to France, Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania as set forth in draft naval clauses, what naval components will remain in Italian Navy and what disposition is contemplated for them?
Department should request War-Navy Departments and Joint Chiefs of Staff planning committee to consider these questions at once, prepare alternative drafts of military and naval clauses and provide explanatory and supporting memoranda. Cable new drafts to London with summaries of supporting comment.
- The Secretary of State was aboard this vessel en route to the First Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers in London. For documentation on the meetings of the Council, September 11–October 2, 1945, see vol. ii, pp. 99 ff.↩
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