Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1931, Volume II

837.113/436: Telegram

The Ambassador in Cuba (Guggenheim) to the Acting Secretary of State

[Paraphrase]

Habana, August 17, 1931—10 a.m.
[Received 12:30 p.m.]

120. My telephone conversation with Walter C. Thurston.³¹ After an informal conversation with the Cuban Secretary of State, he informed me that he would instruct the Cuban Chargé in the United States to withdraw the note regarding an arms embargo³² because the revolutionary situation had changed. The Cuban Secretary of State understands that shipments of arms from the United States are being prohibited as effectively as they would be under a formal proclamation of an arms embargo.

Guggenheim

31. Chief, Division of Latin American Affairs, Department of State.
32. A notation in ink reads, “Note not yet sent by Cuban Chargé. H. F. M.”