Office of the Historian

740.00119 Control (Italy)/12–1545: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Italy (Kirk)

Washington, December 19, 1945—8 p.m.

1027. Dept agrees fully that armistice regime should be terminated and replaced by a single interim agreement along the lines of Deptel 2312, Dec. 10 to Rome. Acceptance of the criteria set forth in last para your 4250, Dec. 1530 is being urged in our discussions with the military here.

Acheson
  1. Not printed. The criteria set forth in last paragraph were that the armistice regime be terminated and that the armistice terms be replaced by an interim document and not by a revision (740.00119 Control (Italy)/12–1545).↩