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Memorandum by the Third Assistant Secretary of State (Long)

[Washington,] May 11, 1920.

Memorandum of conversation with the Counselor of the Italian Embassy.

Mr. Brambilla called this morning and asked whether there would be any objection to the Italian Government filing an application for participation in the Consortium.

I told him that there would be no objection to its being filed, and that we would be glad to consider any application for admission to or comment upon the Consortium the Italian Government might have to make but that the matter would have to be considered by the American Group and the other Governments.

Breckinridge Long

[For the final text of the letters exchanged between the representative of the Japanese group (Kajiwara) and the representative of the American group (Lamont), May 11, 1920, see the copies transmitted by the American group to the Secretary of State, July 22, pages 555, 556.]