File No. 827.00/614.
The President to the President of Cuba.
Washington, May 27, 1912.
I am sincerely gratified to learn of your Government’s energetic measures to put down the disturbances and to know that you are confident of being successful. As was fully explained to the Cuban Chargé d’Affaires here, this Government’s motive in sending ships to Key West, just as in sending the Prairie to the Guantánamo naval station, was merely to be able to act promptly in case it should unfortunately become necessary to protect American life and property by rendering moral support or assistance to the Cuban Government. As was made quite clear at the time, these ordinary measures of precaution were entirely disassociated from any question of intervention.