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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. September 3, 23, B29 Italian military armistice, September 3, 1943; instrument of surrender November 9, 17, 1943 T. I. A. S. 16041 of Italy, September 29, 1943; letterfrom General Eisenhower to Mar- shal Badoglio, September 29, 194S; protocol of November 9, 1943; memorandum of agreement on the employment and disposition of the Italianfleet and mercantile marine, September 23, 1943; amendment to agreement with respect to the employment of the Italiannavy, No- vember 17, 194; and statement of Admiral de Courten, November 17, 1943. Italian Military Armistice, September 3, 1943 FAmItEL CAmP SICILY September 3, 1943 The following conditions of an Armistice are presented by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, acting by authority of the Governments of the United States and Great Britain and in the interest of the United Nations, and are ac- cepted by Marshal Pietro Badoglio Head of the Italian Government 1. Immediate cessation of all hostile activity by the Italian armed forces. 2. Italy will use its best endeavors to deny, to the Germans, facilities that might be used against the United Nations. 3. All prisoners or internees of the United Nations to be immedi- ately turned over to the Allied Commander in Chief, and none of these may now or at any time be evacuated to Germany. 4. Immediate transfer of the Italian Fleet and Italian aircraft to such points as may be designated by the Allied Commander in Chief, with details of disarmament to be prescribed by him. 5. Italian merchant shipping may be requisitioned by the Allied Commander in Chief to meet the needs of his military-naval program. 6. Immediate surrender of Corsica and of all Italian territory, both islands and mainland, to the Allies, for such use as operational bases and other purposes as the Allies may see fit. 7. Immediate guarantee of the free use by the Allies of all airfields and naval ports in Italian territory, regardless of the rate of evacua- tion of the Italian territory by the German forces. These ports and fields to be protected by Italian armed forces until this function is taken over by the Allies. 8. Immediate withdrawal to Italy of Italian armed forces from all participation in the current war from whatever areas in which they may be now engaged. 2740

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