File No. 837.00/740.
The Secretary of State to the Cuban Minister.
Washington, June 13, 1912.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, No. 27, of the 10th instant,1 by which, in pursuance of the subject of your remarks to me on the 9th instant, you quote a telegram wherein the Cuban Government makes various statements regarding the present situation in Cuba and wherein, in conclusion, you request that the Government of the United States withdraw the warships now at Habana.
In reply I need only remark that the Government of the United States has every confidence in the reports of its representatives in Cuba, whose efficiency in this direction will naturally profit by the candor displayed by the Cuban officials with whom they deal, and that in view of the information before it the Government of the United States would not feel justified in changing at this time naval dispositions the true object of which is so well known to the Cuban Government.
Accept [etc.]
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