File No. 763.72115/3135
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall)
[Telegram]
Washington,
May 19, 1917.
591. Your 911, May 15. Inform Austro-Hungarian Government through Spanish channels that this Government agrees to proposal contained in the note of May 7 from the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Spanish Ambassador at Vienna and considers that by its acceptance the agreement is in effect thenceforth during the period of suspension of relations.
Lansing