File No. 837.51/303
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Cuba ( Gonzales)
Your April 6, noon. Full powers of Cuban Minister here may be complete and absolute, but what is desired is a formal official statement from Government of Cuba that: (1) full powers were granted in the form and by the persons required under the constitution, laws, decrees, and regulations of Cuba; (2) that the obligations entered into under such full powers are ratified in advance by the Cuban Government so that they do not require ratification of further approval by the Cuban Government to give them binding effect; (3) that Cuban Minister here is authorized to receive the advances heretofore and hereafter made under the obligations signed by him.
The acts of April 24 and September 24, 1917, in respect to authorizing the issuance of bonds and the establishment of credits in the United States for foreign countries have been mailed to you without a covering instruction.