Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72115/3086

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall)

[Telegram]
Washington, April 16, 1917, 5 p.m.

520. [For Grew1]:

Your 1817, 7th, and 1836, 14th. If the Austro-Hungarian Government will eliminate the restriction of four weeks for the departure of American citizens mentioned in paragraph 1 and will add to paragraph 3 the words “or a menace to the national safety,” this Government will accept the proposed reciprocal arrangement. It will be observed that paragraph 2 is unnecessary and should be eliminated.

Lansing
  1. J. C. Grew, Chargé in Austria-Hungary from Apr. 7 to 14, departed on the latter date for Berne, Switzerland, accompanied by the entire Embassy staff.↩