Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 893.00/1399.

The American Chargé d’Affaires at Vienna to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Vienna, July 27, 1912.

On presentation of the memorandum communicated in the telegram of July 20, Count Berchtold informed me that the Austro-Hungarian Government does not feel the time has arrived for recognition of the Chinese Republic in view of the unstable conditions existing. Moreover, the Austro-Hungarian Government, apart from this point, does not consider that an agreement between the powers could at present be reached.

Grew.