Luce files, lot 64 F 26, “Letters 1953”
No. 756
The Secretary of
State to the Ambassador in Italy (Luce)
Dear Clare: Thank you very much for your note of November 3 enclosing a copy of your paper on the Italian situation which you have sent to the President.1 I understand that the President has already written you his reaction.2 For my part I want you to know that your views have been under study in the Department and will be given very full attention.
I believe all of us here agree entirely with you that a settlement of the Trieste question is indispensable to the survival of the Pella government in Italy. I have devoted a great deal of time and thought to this problem and you will have read summaries of my numerous conversations with the British, French, the Yugoslav Foreign Minister and Ambassador and with the Italian Ambassador here.3 I am confident that we shall see our way through this successfully. You can count upon strong support from me and from the Department in the fine work you are doing in Rome to help resolve the impasse that has arisen.
With reference to the balance of the analysis in your paper I shall ask Mr. Merchant to write you further after there has been additional study … with regard to your recommendations.
Sincerely yours,
- Document 753.↩
- Document 754.↩
- Documentation on these conversations is scheduled for publication in volume viii.↩