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OCR Page 1 of 4DEGLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) OT (ED)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972
SECRET
WILLIAM NARS Derte 871775
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
June 18, 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Principal Questions of Policy
in the Treatment of Italy
During the twenty months since Italy became a
co-belligerent this Government, in acknowledgment of
Italy's very real contributions to the war and in re-
cognition of the importance of a soundly democratic
Italy in achieving general European security and stabi-
lity, has sought by various means to promote Italian
political and economic well-being. The purposes of the
program have had wide support in American public opinion,
but the measures taken have been inadequate to serve
those purposes effectively.
The long-range objective, from the point of view
of our national interest, is to enable Italy to become
a constructive element in a peaceful Europe. To reach
this objective both the political and the economic plan-
ning need a more vigorous and realistic treatment.
The problem is immediate. In northern Italy, with
its large and restless population in industrial areas
left idle and more or less free from military controls,
the liberation has not been followed by constructive
measures. Anarchy may result from the present economic
distress and political unrest unless the work is taken
in hand without delay.
There
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