740.00119 Control (Italy)/9–347: Telegram
The Ambassador in Italy (Dunn) to the Secretary of State
2601. Following official press release by Italian Foreign Ministry today:
“There was signed today at Chigi Palace by Minister Sforza and Ambassador Dunn, an agreement in the form of an exchange of letters for facilitating the withdrawal of the American armed forces from Italy and for regulating the status of same during the period of evacuation in which the armistice regime shall have ceased to be in force.1
This agreement provides further that the United States High Command shall immediately prepare, in conjunction with the appropriate Italian authorities, for the substitution, with Italian personnel, of [Page 965] the American personnel now serving with the Allied Military Government in the areas to be given back to Italian administration. [”]
Sent Secretary of State 2601, Leghorn 111, Trieste 52.
- For text, see Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) No. 1694, or 61 Stat. (pt. 4) 3661.↩