File No. 837.6112/1.
The Secretary of State to the American Minister.
Washington, July 17, 1912.
You will address a note to the Government of Cuba saying that to the Department of State, after such inquiry as has been feasible, the Zapata Swamp concession seems to be so clearly ill-advised a project, so improvident and reckless a waste of revenue and natural resources, that this Government is impelled to express to the Government of Cuba its emphatic disapproval of the same and its firm conviction that a measure so inimical to the interests of the Cuban people will not be suffered by the Government of Cuba to be put into operation when that Government shall have given it final consideration.