File No. 763.72112/7925
The Secretary of State to the Swedish Minister ( Ekengren)
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the Swedish Minister, in charge of Austro-Hungarian interests in the United States, and with reference to his note of March 23, 1918,1 in regard to the continuation of business by Austro-Hungarian insurance companies in the United States under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has the honor to advise him that Austro-Hungarian insurance companies which have heretofore maintained agencies or offices in the United States have been placed in liquidation under license issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act. The managers, or principal agents, of the companies respectively are still in charge of the liquidation of their affairs, but are under special supervision of the Alien Property Custodian.
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