Office of the Historian

740.00119 EW/9–245: Telegram

Mr. Alexander C. Kirk, Political Adviser to the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater, to the Secretary of State

Caserta, September 2, 1945—3 p.m.
[Received September 2—1:55 p.m.]

3489. Our British colleague has shown us a copy of draft peace treaty with Italy prepared by FornOff.38 We assume Department has seen this document which in length is reminiscent of Treaty of Versailles. Quick survey thereof indicates that it is very severe.

Kirk
  1. See memorandum by the United Kingdom Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers (C.F.M. (45) 3), dated September 12, 1945, vol. ii, p. 135.↩