File No. 839.00/907.
The American Minister to the Secretary of State.
Santo Domingo, October 2, 1913.
I based the conditions I suggested upon which hostilities were to cease upon the Department’s stand that revolution would never again bring a government into power here. This basis was given to both sides in writing and I said that we would refuse to discuss the justice of any grievance as a basis for revolution, and that this position is taken not alone in regard to the leaders of the present revolution but also all future ones.
Upon these considerations, do you not think that the revolutionists might be conceded the dignity of permission to sign what they would construe as a formal treaty for this time only, whereas the declaration of policy is for all time?
Both sides are still anxious to fight.