839.00/2598: Telegram
The Commissioner in the Dominican Republic (Welles) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received September 20—3:48 p.m.]
19. Admiral Robison is in accord neither with the plan nor with the military dispositions rendered necessary by the carrying out thereof. However in a conference held with him yesterday I handed him a copy of the letter in which the members of the Commission formally confirmed their request that instruction of Policia officers and recruits continue under the sole jurisdiction of the Military Government during the life of the Provisional Government. He advised me that this arrangement was satisfactory to him and stated that the arrangement made for commanding and officering the Policia Nacional Dominicana during the Provisional Government appeared to him to be as satisfactory as possible under the terms of the plan. The Department should understand that Admiral Robison has been kept by me in closest touch with all developments in my conferences with the members of the Commission bearing upon matters affecting the interests of the Military Government and that the plan was signed only after all the military conditions demanded by the Admiral, not in entire conflict with the provisions of the plan, had been formally agreed to in a series of letters addressed to me by the members of the Commission.