839.00 Revolutions/28: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes)
Washington, February
27, 1930—6 p.m.
43. Revolutionary conditions existing in Santo Domingo do not in our judgment at the present time require presence [of] armed war vessels. We have today telegraphed American Minister at Santo Domingo as follows:
[Here follows text of telegram No. 13, February 27, noon, to the Minister in the Dominican Republic]
We have informally advised British Embassy here in same sense and suggest you repeat. We fear repercussions here if any British land and under those circumstances would ask from them definition of purpose.
Cotton