863.51 Relief Credits/223: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 2—2 p.m.]
35. Department’s 93, April 15, 6 p.m. [to London.]
[Federal Political] Department [reply], dated May 1st, just received. Final paragraph reads in translation as follows:
“Informed in 1927 of the desire of the Austrian Government to conclude in the United States a new loan of 725 million schillings, the Federal Council, by decision of December 12, 1927, authorized the Swiss representative in the International Committee of Relief Credits at London to acquiesce in the request made of the states participating in the 1920 loan to renounce, in favor of the projected loan, the assertion of its claim to the privilege of priority which the relief credit enjoys. Thus we can fully confirm the declarations made concerning this matter by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross.”
Note follows by mail.15
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