File No. 611.3731/25.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

The minister is not sure that he exactly understands the Secretary’s telegram of April 8 and asks: Does it mean that the American Government does not object to the reduction of the Cuban duties on sugar that was made in February, provided that proportional preferential reduction in favor of the United States is maintained by Cuba and provided that the United States does not insist upon a return to the status quo ante?