837.61351/284: Telegram
The Representative on Special Mission in Cuba (Crowder) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:21 p.m.]
116. Reference your number 153 September 17, 5 p.m. Tomorrow morning’s Havana papers will carry the following public statement by President Zayas:
“Referring to the reports which have been circulated to the effect that the Sugar Finance Commission established under the law of February 17 [11], 1921, is to be abolished and the sugars now existing in the warehouses in Cuba thrown on the market, it seems desirable for the Chief Executive to state officially that the Sugar Finance Commission is not to be abolished but that it will be continued with all the powers conferred upon it by the said law and will continue in full control of all the sugars remaining from the zafra of 1920–21, until the same are liquidated.”