File No. 812.00/9699.
The American Ambassador to Austria-Hungary to the Secretary of State.
Vienna, October 28, 1913.
Sir: I have the honor to report that the Embassy communicated without delay the contents of your telegram of the 24th instant, requesting the Austro-Hungarian Government to refrain from taking any steps toward the recognition of a Government in Mexico until they had had an opportunity to consider the position of our Government, as stated in representations which would be made to them within a few days.
The request was received in an agreeable spirit, qualified by the statement that they would probably eventually follow the lead of other European Governments in the matter.
The comparison was drawn between our position in connection with Mexico and that of the Austro-Hungarian Government and Servia, and attention was drawn to the fact that although for political and commercial reasons the new regime in Servia was promptly recognized, King Peter has never been received at the Austrian Court, as a protest against the methods through which he came into power.
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