837.00/2108
The Secretary of State to the Cuban Minister (Céspedes)
My Dear Mr. Minister: I have received your letter of April 29, transmitting a copy of a statement published in the Heraldo de Cuba of Monday, April 18, containing an alleged account of the conversation which I recently had with General Jose Miguel Gómez in the Department of State. You inquire whether this report of my conversation with General Gómez is correct.
In reply, I am glad to avail myself of this opportunity to advise you that the statements contained in the article above referred to are both inaccurate and misleading. In brief and in substance, my remarks to General Gómez were confined to statements corresponding to those contained in the announcement to the Cuban people communicated by the American Minister in Havana to the press on April 17, last. I should like, in particular, to emphasize the fact that no mention whatever of the possibility of American intervention in Cuba was made during the course of my conversation with General Gomez.
In short, the entire report of my conversation is so incorrect that I am confident its publication could never have been authorized by General Gómez.
With the assurances [etc.]