837.00/3637: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received 12:10 p.m.]
147. As a decided rebuff to the attempt made throughout the day of yesterday by President Machado to force the Conservative Party to reject the mediation negotiations and the solution proposed by me to President Machado the Senators and Representatives of the Conservative [Page 354] Party in Congress last night passed the following official resolution:
“That the party has always been contrary to foreign intervention since it is its supreme ideal to maintain unimpaired the national sovereignty in accordance with the point of view invariably maintained by the Conservative Party, neither this parliamentary committee nor the party has at any time requested the President to shorten his term. But that this parliamentary committee in accordance with the instrucions of the party has accepted without any mental reservations whatsoever the mediation of the Ambassador of the United States and is disposed to support any sacrifices whatsoever as may be necessary in order to reestablish normality in Cuba and cordiality in the Cuban family within the respect of the sovereignty of the Republic.”