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The Acting Secretary of State to the Swedish Minister ( Ekengren )

Sir: During the last few weeks the Department has received from the Government of Austria through your good offices, various communications [Page 200] addressed to the President or Government of the United States with regard to the terms of the armistice or to matters in which the other governments associated with the United States in the war are equally concerned. The communications received do not indicate whether or not they have been communicated to the other interested governments.

I should be grateful, therefore, if you would kindly request your Government to suggest to the Government of Austria that communications of this nature which pertain to the terms of the armistice and to matters in which all the associated governments are interested, should be sent to all the governments and not addressed only to the President or Government of the United States, and to inform your Government that the Government of the United States would prefer not to receive further communications of the above nature from the Government of Austria unless it is clear that they are being simultaneously communicated to the other governments concerned.

Accept [etc.]

[Frank L. Polk]