SFORZA CASE
AMERICAN ATTITUDE
PURELY ITALIAN AFFAIR
(Bji Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 11 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. | The United States has informed both I Britain and Italy that the U.S.A. expects the Italian people to develop their Government without influence from outside, says a State Department announcement. "This Government has not in any way intimated to the Italian Government that there would be opposition to Count Sforza." The statement added that the policy of permitting a people to solve their own problems of Government would apply to an even more pronounced degree in the liberated territories. The position of the United States 'Government has been consistently that the composition of the Italian Government i s purely an Italian affair except in the case of appointments where important military facitors are concerned. Since Italy is an area of combined i responsibility, the United States has reaffirmed to both the -British and Italian Governments that the United States expects the Italians to work out their problems of government along democratic lines without influence from outside.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 5
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172SFORZA CASE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 5
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