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ITALIAN EMBASSY
TELEGRAM MESSAGE
WASHINGTON, D. c.
JUNE 22 1946
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
MR. PRESIDENT,
PARDON ME IF THE ALARMING REPORTS FROM PARIS
CONCERNING MY COUNTRY INDUCE ME TO INTRUDE IN YOUR
SHORT HOLIDAY WITH THIS PERSONAL APPEAL STOP THOSE
REPORTS SEEM TO IMPLY THAT GRAVE DECISIONS ARE UNDER
WAY IN THE TRIESTE QUESTION HINTING EVEN AT THE
POSSIBILITY OF AN INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THAT
ITALIAN CITY STOP
IN THE NAME OF THE HALF MILLION ITALIANS OF
VENEZIA GIULIA AND TRIESTE, IN THE NAME OF THE SIX
HUNDRED THOUSAND ITALIANS WHO DIED AT THE SIDE OF
THE ALLIES IN THE WORLD WAR 1914 1918 TO RESTORE
TRIESTE TO ITALY, IN THE NAME OF THE WHOLE ITALIAN
PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT I BEG YOU NOT TO GIVE THE
AMERICAN CONSENT TO A FLAGRANT INJUSTICE WHICH WOULD
SEVER ITALIAN TRIESTE FROM THE ITALIAN BODY, WOULD
RENDER IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ITALY TO SIGN THE TREATY
AND WOULD LEAVE EUROPE WITHOUT PEACE STOP AN
INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE CITY OF TRIESTE WOULD
BE UNJUSTIFIABLE AND WOULD CONSTITUTE A MANIFEST
VIOLATION OF THE ATLANTIC CHARTER STOP
MR PRESIDENT, FORTYSIX MILLIONS OF ITALIANS
IN THIS SUPREME MOMENT OF THEIR HISTORY APPEAL TO
YOU FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF TRIESTE TO ITALY STOP
DO NOT LET SUCH APPEAL REMAIN UNANSWERED
ARQHIVES
Turshiani
ALBERTO TARCHIANI
ITALIAN AMBASSADOR
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