File No. 837.00/506.
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Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 1198 [1184] of the 10th instant [etc.] I have the honor to report that after several conferences with the leaders of the veterans’ associations President Gómez has agreed to the appointment of a commission of arbitration to reach an agreement on the question of office-holding by persons who bore arms against the cause of Cuban independence. * * *
The Government is clearly alarmed by the threats of the veterans to take the law into their own hands unless all the “guerrilleros” are dismissed from office by November 27, and the President’s acceptance of the arbitration idea is a complete retreat from his first stand of refusing to consider the demands of the veterans.
I have [etc.]