File No. 839.00/1905
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Santo Domingo, August 10, 1916, 9 a.m.
Long interview with the President yesterday. I stated emphatically and plainly the position of our Government in regard to Arias and his friends. At the conclusion of the interview I asked the President what I should telegraph to Washington as the result of our conversation. He said, “You may say to your Government that with the help of the United States I intend to establish a government of order that will guarantee the peace and prosperity of the country.” The President said that he had not yet read the note4 containing interpretation demanded by us which I sent to the Government last November but that he would do so at once.
- Inclosure to Mr. Russell’s despatch No. 30 of December 9, 1915; For. Rel. 1915, p. 333.↩