837.51/664: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Cuba (Cable)
186. For General Crowder.
Your 149, December 10, 10 a.m.
If you feel that there is little prospect of further progress in negotiations along present lines, the Department desires that you should come to Washington for a conference. Before coming, you will make a final request for a definite answer in regard to budget reduction, [Page 770] informing the Cuban Government that the Government of the United States regards the present situation with the utmost concern, and that it feels that the failure of the Cuban Government to make adequate reductions in its budget and thus to make possible the preliminary loan threatens to produce a most serious situation. You may also state that you have been called to Washington to confer upon the situation, and that you are informed that your Government desires you to return to Cuba after the conference with a view to remaining there until the present financial situation is satisfactorily solved.