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Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State (Phillips)
The Cuban Ambassador called me on the phone to say that he had been talking with President Machado this afternoon, that there had been a meeting of the workers at the Palace and that the strike had been called off; all the workers, he said, had agreed to go back to work and complete tranquility existed throughout Cuba; President Machado told Ambassador Cintas that Mr. Welles had presented this morning, in writing, a communciation which, in fact, meant the overthrow of the Government; President Machado said that he could not and would not be “pushed out by the United States”. Ambassador Cintas said that, although he knew Mr. Welles had this in mind for a long time, this was the first proposal he had made of it directly to the President; the Ambassador repeated that Machado had said to Mr. Welles that he would not accept the plan suggested of the substitution of the Secretary of State and the ultimate election of a Vice-President.