837.00/3556: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Cuba (Welles)
49. Your personal letter June 17.25 President authorizes following message:
“It is very heartening and the source of much satisfaction to me to know that the Cuban people now believe that a peaceful discussion of their country’s problem is the most satisfactory means of determining their country’s destinies, and that the best way of reconciling their political difficulties is to be found in the peaceable and orderly process of frank but constructive discussions. I wish the Cuban people every success in these discussions for I am convinced that the restoration of political peace is a necessary and essential preliminary step on the way to Cuba’s economic recovery. The representatives of all factions may rest assured that the moral support of the American people will be behind these attempts at the peaceable adjustment of Cuban problems through the orderly procedure of Constitutional Government.”
He adds however, “it should of course be made clear that request for any assistance from Welles originates from Cuban Government and people and is not suggested in first instance by Washington.”
- Not found in Department files. See telegram to President Roosevelt, June 20, 5 p.m., supra.↩