Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Hay to Mr. McCormick.

Department of State,
Washington , March 6, 1902 .

No. 35.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 67 of the 11th ultimo, in regard to the treatment to be accorded to United States passports and their bearers in Austria-Hungary.

Your conduct of the matter, as reported in your despatch, has the Department’s approval, as has the fifth article of the proposed instruction to the Austro-Hungarian local authorities, requiring a receipt from them in every case in which they deem it necessary temporarily to take from an American citizen his passport.

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I am, etc.,

John Hay.