740.0011 Four Power Pact/18: Telegram
The Chargé in Great Britain (Atherton) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 31—11:40 a.m.]
62. From Davis.21a Grandi22 has given me exact text of Mussolini proposal for an agreement between the four western powers which I will transmit by cable if you have not already received it from the Italian Ambassador.
Grandi told me there was no intention of having this result in a united front with regard to debts or anything else that would concern the United States and in fact that Italy has refused to join in the united front on debts. He expressed personally the hope that the United States could find it possible to join in some way on its own terms with the four powers in the proposed agreement the purpose of which is to promote peace and reduce some of the causes of tension. In saying this he remarked that he felt he was reflecting Mussolini’s views and desires. [Davis.]