840.50 Recovery/6–1647
The Italian Ambassador (Tarchiani) to the Secretary of State
My Dear Secretary of State: The Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs Count Sforza, has directed me to convey to you Italy’s wholehearted solidarity in the aims you have expressed in your Harvard address with such outstanding statesmanship.
Count Sforza has asked me to communicate to you that the Italians are grateful, both as Italians and as Europeans, for this speech of yours which, as we all hope, will develop as the utmost contribution to peace throughout the world.
And he also has instructed me to assure you of Italy’s readiness to warmly cooperate with the ideas you expressed.
Please accept [etc.]