865.014/3–647: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom
1206. Urtel 1493 Mar 6.1 Dept has today answered2 Brit Emb memo dated Mar 7 containing suggestions for putting into effect provisions Italian Peace Treaty re disposal Italian Colonies.
Dept agreeable to preliminary meeting Deputies in London earliest feasible date to draw up terms of reference Commission of Investigation and formulate future program Deputies.
Ambassador Douglas3 will be appointed Deputy if Soviets and French also agree to London as meeting place. John Utter4 appointed Commissioner.
Dept would appreciate learning nature Soviet and French replies to Brit note.
Sent London as 1206; Rptd Paris as 1002; Moscow as 551; Rome as 370; Cairo as 371; Addis Ababa as 38.
- Not printed; it replied to telegram 1041, March 5, to London, p. 571, substantially the same as the British Embassy memorandum of March 7.↩
- Department of State memorandum to the British Embassy, March 18, 1947, not printed (740.0011 EW Peace/3–747).↩
- Lewis W. Douglas, Ambassador in the United Kingdom.↩
- Officer in the Division of African Affairs.↩