Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 837.001M52/28

The Cuban Minister to the Secretary of State

[Translation]

No. 60

Cuban Legation,
Washington, May 21, 1917.

Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform your excellency that on yesterday the 20th of May 1917, Messrs. Mario G. Menocal and Emilio Nuñez assumed the offices of President and Vice President of the Republic of Cuba to which they were respectively proclaimed by the National Congress to have been elected for the term of four years which will end on May 21, 1921.

I avail [etc.]

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes