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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
311
Memorandum of Conversation
DATEDecember 5, 1949
SUBJECT: Land and Fiscal Reform in Italy.
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PARTICIPANTS: The Secretary
The Italian Ambassador
: ARCHIVES SERVICER OFFICE
"NATIONAL
AND
Mr. Achilles, WE
COPIES TOS/S
EUR
Embassy Rome.
1--1493
During a discussion with the Ambassador on various subjects,
I expressed interest in learning the progress his Government was
making in the matter of land reform.
He referred to the legislation now pending in the Italian
Parliament for land reform in Calabria. The primary difficulty
was financial, since it was necessary to find funds not merely to
compensate the present owners but for roads, houses and irrigation
on the large undeveloped areas of poor land involved. The total
amount for land reform in all Italy would not be less than 500 billion
lire. His Government and particularly the Prime Minister were fully
conscious of the importance from the political as well as the
economic point of view of effective action.
I reiterated the importance which this Government attached to
such action and cited the failure to find a solution of this probl em
in China as one of the major reasons for the present plight of that
country.
The Ambassador also spoke optimistically of the progress so far
made in fiscal reform in Italy and of the efforts which his Govern-
ment was making to secure even more effective action.
DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, 2-33-35
By NLT- HC NARS Date 4.28.16
Dean Acheson
EUR: WE:TCAchille