462.00R296/4092: Telegram
The Ambassador in Italy (Garrett) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 24—5:40 p.m.]
107. Reference is made to my telegram No. 106, June 24, 1 p.m.20 and your telegram No. 92, June 23, 9 p.m. Grandi, whom I have just seen, seems greatly worried by what are, in his opinion, misinterpretations of Italy’s acceptance of the Hoover proposal which have appeared in newspapers abroad. He asks me to tell you that Italy has made a full and cordial acceptance; that this acceptance is not limited by any political reservations, and that it is in fact similar to and in agreement with the terms of the British acceptance. Grandi states that the word “observations” in Mussolini’s telegram refers to matters of detail in the way in which the project might be carried out. Italy fully recognizes President Hoover’s initiative, and Italy cannot and does not make any political reservations in accepting it. Grandi stated that he had just sent an instruction by telegraph to De Martino embodying the above.
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