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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation Between President Roosevelt, the Secretary of State, and the Ambassador in Cuba (Welles)
At about 11:00 o’clock this evening, Mr. Welles telephoned the Secretary to advise him that about half the officers in the National Hotel had left, leaving about 250 (?) still there and that all of the soldiers surrounding the hotel had left.
Mr. Welles went on to say that due to the conditions prevailing in Habana at the moment he wished to have authority to issue a statement to the effect that the American Government had not and would not give consideration to the recognition of the revolutionary group at present in power at Habana. After an exchange of views between the Secretary and Ambassador Welles, the President was cut in on the conversation and gave Mr. Welles authority to issue a statement to the effect that no question of recognition or non-recognition of the group now in power in Cuba had been considered by the American Government up to the present time.