Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 611.3731/43.

The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

Department of State,
Washington, December 9, 1911.

No. 417.]

Sir: Referring to the Department’s telegram of December 5, 1911,¹ and instructions of November 2, in regard to the Cuban Government’s expression of views concerning the reply of the Department to its request for a renewal and subsequent modification of the reciprocity treaty, it is desirable that the Department be informed without further delay of the views of the Cuban Government.

The Department’s instruction of November 2, 1911, was in response to the urgent representations of the Cuban Government, and it is unable to understand the delay in receiving a further reply from that Government. You are therefore instructed, in case a reply has not been made when this dispatch is received, to inquire formally and discreetly as to when an answer may be expected.

I am, etc.,

P. C. Knox.

1. Not printed.