Office of the Historian

863.51/839

The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury (Mellon)

Washington, October 18, 1927.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit for your information a memorandum report15 of a conversation in which the Austrian Minister indicated that his Government wishes to know whether the Secretary of the Treasury has power without further authorization by Congress to extend for an additional period of five years the time of payment of the debt incurred by Austria for the purchase of flour from the United States Grain Corporation.

I am transmitting to you this informal inquiry in view of your possible interest in considering it jointly with the cognate inquiry of the Austrian Chancellor communicated to you by this Department’s letter of September 24, 1927.

I have [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
W. R. Castle, Jr.

Assistant Secretary
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