740.0011 Four Power Pact/103c: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Italy (Long)42
30. The President gave out the following statement this morning:
“The initialing at Rome of the Four Power Pact between France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy is a good augury. The United States welcomes every effort toward replacing conflicting national aims by international cooperation for the greater advantage of all. This agreement of the principal European Powers to work closely together for the preservation of peace should give renewed courage to all who are striving for the success of the Geneva and London Conferences.”
Please inform the Italian Government of the text of this statement, making clear that you are acting under instructions from your Government.
- The same, mutatis mutandis, June 9, to the Ambassadors in France, Great Britain, and Germany and to the American delegate to the Disarmament Conference.↩