File No. 837.911/32.

The Secretary of State to Minister Gonzales.

No. 98.]

Sir: The Department has received your No. 123 of the 11th instant inclosing a copy of a letter addressed by you to President Menocal, in which you stated that the time already served by Enrique Maza might well be considered by the Cuban Government as sufficient satisfaction of his sentence, and that this Government had no desire for his longer confinement.

The Department approves your action.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
John E. Osborne
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