World History

261.

Note of the United States to Germany and Italy on European Possessions in the Western Hemisphere

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The Government of the United States is informed that the Government of France has requested of the German Government the terms of an armistice.

The Government of the United States feels it desirable, in order to avoid any possible misunderstanding, to inform Your Excellency that in accordance with its traditional policy relating to the Western Hemisphere, the United States would not recognize any transfer, and would not acquiesce in any attempt to transfer, any geographic region of the Western Hemisphere from one non-American power to another non-American power.

I avail myself [etc.]

11 United States, Department of State (Publication No. 2669), United States and Italy 1936–1946. Documentary Record, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1946, p. 18.