875.00/138: Telegram

The Ambassador in Italy (Fletcher) to the Secretary of State

[Paraphrase]

111. Following information regarding Albanian situation is confidential. I have been requested by the Secretary General of the Foreign Office to inform you that the Governments of Italy and Yugoslavia have no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of Albania in any way and that on this point the two Governments are completely in accord.4

Fletcher
  1. In despatch no. 78, June 9, the Ambassador in Italy reported that the Italian Foreign Office had issued a communiqué to the press of similar purport to the statement reported in this telegram.