500.A15a3/1518: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Edge) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 23—2:45 p.m.]
206. Embassy’s No. 189, April 21, noon.6 The Foreign Office has just unofficially handed me the text of the French Government’s note. It is dated April 20 and addressed to the British and Italian Governments, and it outlines the new French proposal. The document consists of eight typewritten pages.
I have learned from the Foreign Office that a complete summary of the note has been telegraphed to the French Ambassador in Washington and that during the course of the day he will presumably present it to you. The complete text was sent by diplomatic pouch last Tuesday and will be handed to you when it arrives next week.7 Owing to these circumstances and not having heard from the Department, I shall not forward the document to Washington. I shall, however, have copies made and forwarded to the Embassies at Rome, Brussels, and London as well as to the Legation at Berne.
Contrary to what Massigli had been understood to say he would do, Dulong8 did not proceed to Rome. According to Dulong, the French Ambassador is presenting the note to the Italian Government today. It is being delivered simultaneously to the British Government.