File No. 763.72119/241
The Ambassador in Austria-Hungary (Penfield) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 23, 3.30 p. m.]
1593. Department’s circular telegram December 18.1 I strictly obeyed instruction to read to Minister for Foreign Affairs and leave [Page 110] with him. This I did at 4 o’clock .to-day. It is interesting to report that reception of this communication closed Baron Burian’s career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as he is to be succeeded to-morrow by Count Ottokar Czernin, who had been Austro-Hungarian Minister at Bucharest until Roumania entered the war. This change of ministers is sensation of day and wholly unlooked for. Burian returns to Ministry for Bosnia and Herzegovina, position held by him for many years.