The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and Austria was signed in Vienna on 24 August 1921, in duplicate. Plenipotentiaries: Arthur Hugh Frazier, for the President of the United States, and Johann Schober, for the Federal President of the Republic of Austria. Article III: ratification in constitutional form and effect immediately on the exchange of instruments in Vienna — 8 November 1921. It is not the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye of 10 September 1919, nor the US–German peace of 25 August 1921, nor the US–Hungarian peace of 29 August 1921.

The preamble recalls the armistice of 3 November 1918, the disappearance of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the fact that the United States had not ratified Saint-Germain, and the Congressional Joint Resolution of 2 July 1921, which declared the state of war at an end and reserved American rights. Article I: Austria accords to the United States the rights, privileges, indemnities and advantages specified in that resolution, including those stipulated in Saint-Germain, even without American ratification of the multilateral treaty.

Article II specifies, at a high level, which parts of Saint-Germain apply to the United States (V, VI, VIII–XII and XIV) and which do not bind it (the League Covenant in Part I, and Parts II, III, IV and XIII). Participation in the Reparation Commission is optional. The time periods in Article 381 of the multilateral treaty run, for the United States, from the coming into force of the bilateral peace.

The instrument was registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on 22 November 1921 (vol. 7, p. 156; TS 659). A supplementary treaty, signed in Washington on 26 November 1924, established a mixed claims commission. The official text consulted is that in FRUS 1921, not the register’s WorldLII page.

Cover: Ballhausplatz in Vienna, seat of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, where Schober was chancellor; we do not claim the hall. Wikimedia Commons, free licence.

Sources consulted: U.S.–Austrian Peace Treaty (1921); FRUS 1921, volume I, document 231.