Cablegram 50 LONDON, 31 March 1938
Your telegram No. 16. [1] Note of 2nd April referred to in Dominions Office circular B.84 [2] will be considered as de jute recognition by United Kingdom Government of incorporation of Austria in the German Reich. It will constitute the act of recognition and supply the date.
STIRLING
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1 Document 173.
2 Not printed.
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[AA : A981, AUSTRIA 17, ii]