Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/8202a

The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Officers in All Countries except Spain

[Circular telegram]
Washington, December 15, 1917.

In pursuance of resolution mentioned in Department’s circular telegrams December 7 and 11, President proclaimed on December 11 that a state of war exists between United States and the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government.1

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  1. The proclamation, dealing almost entirely with the treatment of enemy aliens, is printed in the section relating to that subject in Foreign Relations, 1918, Supplement 2.↩