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

File No. 437.00/53.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Habana, June 6, 1913.

The President today expressed satisfaction with the Department’s telegram of June 5 and desires me to say that his Government is according the arbitration claims question more serious attention than to any other pending matter.

Before¹ this interview the Secretary of State had addressed to the French Minister a note thoroughly in harmony with your views, adding that the question was being studied and a statement of the new administration’s position would be made with no unnecessary delay.

Beaupré.

1. On June 5.