File No. 763.72115/3362
The Swedish Minister ( Ekengren) to the Secretary of State
Department of Austro-Hungarian
Interests No. 3446/21.
The Minister of Sweden, representing Austro-Hungarian interests in the United States, presents his compliments to His Excellency the Secretary of State, and has the honor to inform him of the receipt of a cablegram from the Foreign Office in Stockholm of which the following is an extract:
[Translation]
Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asks that you kindly give special attention to the increase lately noticed in the internment of Austrian and Hungarian subjects in the United States, and kindly warn the Department of State that if American Government should without valid cause continue to intern Austrian and Hungarian subjects—as seems to have been the case with Kunwald and Pohl—such a proceeding could not but have a corresponding effect on the treatment of American citizens in Austria-Hungary.