865.014/9–2745: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10 p.m.]
10042. Your 8039, September 17. Foreign Office has answered our communication of September 18 about Saseno in following sense:
In the course of their discussion about the Italian peace treaty-Foreign Minister’s Council agreed that Saseno should be ceded to Albania.32 It seems to the British that on the strength of this decision “our two govts” could quite well make the proposed communication to Hoxha through Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean without any further consultation with other Allied Govts. However, if State Dept still thinks it necessary to obtain Soviet concurrence British “will not dissent” but as the French Provisional Govt is also a party to decision reached at the Council of Foreign Ministers British consider that if the Soviets are consulted similar communication ought to be made to the French.
- The cession of the island of Saseno by Italy to Albania was agreed to at the Third Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, held September 14, 1945. See Record of the Third Meeting, minute 5, under heading Section I: Territorial Provisions for Italy in Europe, item (9), vol. ii, p. 163.↩