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Volume #13 - 43. | |
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CHAPTER I CONDUCT OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS | |
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PART
2 DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR REPRESENTATION | |
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SECTION
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DEA/7951-40 |
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Memorandum from Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs to Secretary of State for External Affairs | |
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SECRET |
Ottawa,
January 15, 1947 |
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I think you will be interested in the attached letter from Wrong† concerning United States representation at the Vatican. We will presumably be appointing a diplomatic representative before long in Rome, accredited to the Italian Government. This will inevitably bring up the question of representation at the Vatican as well; a question which, of course, in Canada, as in the United States, arouses religious feelings, pro and con. When I last talked to the Italian Representative, I inquired as to the attitude of his Government towards the Representative to the Quirinal being also the Representative to the Vatican. He said that they still opposed that procedure, as in the past, but that their opposition might not extend to a Representative accredited to another country being also accredited to the Vatican. For instance, if the Government desired to have a Representative at the Vatican, he could not be the Canadian Ambassador to Italy, but he might be the Canadian Ambassador to France.30 L.B. P[EARSON] 30Saint-Laurent a paraphé la note sans commentaire. | |
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