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

File No. 837.77/70.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington , May 22, 1912 .

You may inform the Cuban Government of the substance of Department’s telegram of May 14. As the railroad project is now framed, the Department feels that it is probably an improvident strain on the Cuban Treasury.

Knox.