File No. 812.00/9586.
The American Ambassador to Austria-Hungary to the Secretary of State.
Vienna, October 23, 1913.
Sir: I have the honor to report that the contents of the Department’s telegraphic instruction of October 14, 7:00 p.m., were duly communicated to the Austro-Hungarian Ministry for Foreign Affairs in an aide memoire which was read and handed to the Permanent Under Secretary, and the subject discussed at length.
Baron Machio stated that, in its desire to avoid interference in the affairs of Latin American States, his Government was not inclined to probe too deeply into the methods by which their chief executives attained office and that, consequently, in the case of Mexico recognition would probably be accorded to whoever might succeed in establishing himself in power.
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