Office of the Historian

763.72119/4927: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Stockholm (Halstead)

Washington, May 15, 1919, 6 p.m.

Personal to be deciphered by Halstead.

Secretary of State desires you proceed at once to Vienna via Paris as successor to Coolidge, American Commissioner in Austria.3 How soon can you leave and telegraph whether Hopper4 is capable of administering Consulate General?

Polk
  1. This title had not, in fact, been used for Professor Coolidge.↩
  2. George Dunlop Hopper, Consul at Stockholm.↩