File No. 763.72/6920
The Acting Secretary of State to the Special Agent in Corfu ( Dodge)
Your September 19, 3 p.m.1 The Government will be glad to receive any time this autumn a mission representing the Government [Page 215] of Servia, and hopes that should the mission desire to stay some time in the United States it will find it possible to be received for the first ten days as guests of the nation.
Regarding the visit proposed by the Yugoslav committee of London, you are advised that the Government of the United States cannot receive at the present time a committee which is representative or partially representative of a body of Austro-Hungarians who are opposed to their Government with which the United States is not formally at war. You will please do everything possible to discourage a visit to this country of such a committee, but you may say confidentially that circumstances may arise later to make their visit possible.