837.73/32: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Cuba (Long)
28. Your 8, January 11, 5 p.m. Department’s 16, January 14.
Telegraph whether decree suspending Western Union permit has been officially published. If not published, inform Foreign Office that this Government will not support any claim of the Western Union for indemnity based on suspension of landing permit; that Western Union’s claim is considered unsound and unsupportable because the permit expressly provided in Article III for its suspension when it was deemed proper for the protection of the public interest, and furthermore this Government believes that the landing license in Cuba was obtained as a means of circumventing any action which this Government should take to prevent the landing of the cable at Miami Beach. Mail instruction forwarded to you January 26 [25?].