837.00/3782: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:53 a.m.]
212. My telegram No. 210, September 7, 8 p.m. The meeting at the Palace appears to have degenerated into a fruitless prolonged argument. I have just been visited by two of the delegates of the Unión Nacionalista present who stated that Mendieta and Menocal have left in disgust and that no compromise agreement can possibly be reached. During the discussion the of every political sector urged the group in power to turn over the government to a legitimate government of concentration on the ground that the present government represented only the students and the extreme radicals. Finally a subcommittee was formed but it seems improbable that any useful result can be expected from its deliberations.