740.00119 ACI/22: Telegram
The American Representative to the French Committee of National Liberation at Algiers (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 15—10:27 a.m.]
156. From Murphy. Prior to Brindisi meeting of Advisory Council for Italy Marshal Badoglio addressed a written communication to General Joyce asking him to obtain authorization for an Italian member to sit in at meetings of the Council as an observer. He stated such a person would be completely at disposition of the Council and it would be a strong disappointment if Council should start its work with the absolute exclusion of any Italian participation.
[Page 438]General Eisenhower has now instructed General Joyce as follows: to grant Italian Government either representation or right to send observer to Advisory Council would not be in accord with nature and purpose of this body. The representative of United Nations and the organ for conducting relations with Italian Government is the Control Commission which is charged with executing armistice and insuring that conduct of Italian Government conforms to Allied requirements. Present representation Advisory Council which is charged to watch machinery of control and advise President of Commission on general policy connected therewith is confined to American, British, French and Soviet representatives.
Sent Department, repeated London, Moscow. [Murphy.]