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The Minister of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Grouitch) to the Secretary of State

Washington, May 25, 1922.
P. No. 189

Sir: With reference to my letter of May 11th, P No. 126,19 I have the honor to inform your Excellency that my Government has appointed me to negotiate with the World War Foreign Debt Commission for the Settlement or Refunding of the obligations of the Royal Government arising out of the World War which are held by the United States, and in accordance with the Act of February 9, 1922, and the Resolution of the Commission of April 18, the text of which has recently been communicated by your Excellency to the Royal Government through the United States Minister in Belgrade.

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I wish to say that I am expecting very shortly specific instructions from my Government, on the receipt of which I will place myself at the disposition of the Commission. I will be very much obliged if you will communicate this information to the World War Foreign Debt Commission.20

I take [etc.]

S. Y. Grouitch
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See also the section under Yugoslavia entitled, “Acquiescence by the Department of State in a loan by American bankers to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes”, vol. ii, pp. 1002 ff.↩