You followed my work in the international field and  
know the dlfficulties I had to overcome at home to assure the loyal and   
active contribution of Italy to a policy of peace and international   
cooperation. I indeed am greatly indebted to American Statesmen, and to   
their invaluable assistance and personel encouragement if for many years   
my foreign policy prevailed in Italy. The principles in which I always   
believed were stressed by me to the American public opinion in speeches I   
made in Washington, New York and Philadelphia in November 1931. In these   
principles I put my faith to-day more firmly than ever. In doing what, I   
have done in trying to save Italy from the total disaster where Mussolini   
was driving it, I was not thinking of building up a new political platford   
whatsoever. As I said to the King, I meant only to accomplish the last   
duty of my active political life, and to serve those which had been my   
                ideals through all my life.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
I thought I had to let you know all this. I would  
like to say many more things, many more indeed, which are impossible to   
express in a few pages. There are people to-day who have obvious interest,   
as you will find out yourself, in distorting the truth. Personal   
experience has taught me how difficult it is to re-establish, the truth               ,,;truth  
about past events, when war is still raging. this is ,why     
I am confident that in writing to you I shall find that understanding   
which is otherwise not so easy to find when war is stirring so many human   
passions and when so many political interests are involved.  
I send you, dear Ambassador, all my heartfelt wishes  
for the success of your mission. The cause of the Allies' is the cause of   
Italy, and my hope is to see my unhappy country emerge from her present   
ruins aligned again at the side of the Allies, fighting against Germany   
ch is our traditional enemy and reconquering her lost libert
 
                   Very sincerely yours,                    
 
                     Signed Dino Grandi