Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 437.00/49A.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 17, 1913.

This Government cordially approves the measures pending in the Cuban Congress designed to create boards for the arbitration of claims of European citizens against Cuba. We are informed that the former administration indorsed similar bills and we are in harmony with the principle of arbitration. You will make a statement in the above sense to the Cuban Government.

Bryan.