861.77 Chinese Eastern/645
The Ambassador in Cuba (Guggenheim) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 9.]
Sir: Referring to the Department’s circular telegram of December 1, 4 p.m., 1929, and to my telegram in reply thereto, No. 128 of December 3, 2 p.m., 1929,67 in which the Department was informed that the Cuban Secretary of State had assured me of the full cooperation of his Government, I have the honor to report that the Cuban Government yesterday sent messages to the Governments of China and Soviet Russia inviting their attention to the desirability of settling their present differences by peaceable means.
The Cuban Legation at Peking was directed to make the following communication to the Chinese Government:
“The Cuban Government and people have not failed to follow with deep concern the events which have been developing in Northern Manchuria since the month of July.
In its character as a signatory to the Kellogg Pact, the second article of which binds all the contracting states to have recourse to pacific means for the settlement of differences which may arise between them, the Cuban Republic feels obliged to address itself to the Government and people of the Chinese Republic, invoking their sentiments of human solidarity, and cordially inviting them to settle a conflict which menaces sacred interests common to all peoples, who, in view of the apparent inefficacy of solemn international promises, would feel that their firmest hopes of peace and progress have been destroyed”.
The following telegram was sent directly to the Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs by the Cuban Secretary of State:
“The Cuban Government and people have followed with the greatest anxiety the development of the events which have occurred since the month of July in Northern Manchuria.
As a signatory to the Pact of Paris, the Cuban Republic, through my agency, addresses itself to Your Excellency, calling upon the sentiments of the Russian Government and people, in the conviction that its attitude will contribute to the settlement of a conflict which would surely detract from the efficacy of solemn international agreements in which humanity sees its guarantees of progress and of peace”.
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