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

File No. 837.001M52/29

The Secretary of State to the Cuban Minister

No. 167

Department of State,
Washington, August 15, 1917.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 10th instant in which you enclose a letter, with office copy, addressed to the President by His Excellency the President of Cuba, announcing his election to the Presidency of that Republic and his assumption of his high office.

I have the honor to say in reply that I have laid President Menocal’s letter before the President and that the latter’s reply will shortly be transmitted through the American Minister at Habana.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing