863.51 Relief Credits/121: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Austria (Washburn)
28. Your 24, May 31. At a suitable opportunity you might point out informally to interested officials and in reply to press inquiries [Page 910] that the resolution respecting the proposed Austrian loan did not get as far as the floor of either House, owing to the pressure of pending legislation towards the close of the recent session; that hence it was not rejected but merely not considered and that it will be taken up at the second session of the present Congress at the beginning of December and will be actively pressed.
[Paraphrase.] In case any publicity has been or hereafter may be given the Italian attitude of blocking the loan, you are to telegraph the Department. [End paraphrase.]