837.00/4191: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 14—3:50 a.m.]
360. The Brazilian Chargé d’Affaires this evening advised me that in response to an inquiry from his Government as to the stability of the present Cuban government replied that “it was built on sand” since [Page 485] in his opinion its sole support was an “undisciplined and mutinous Army and a band of students.”
I should appreciate having any opinions which may be expressed to you by the Argentine, Brazilian or Chilean Ambassadors in Washington regarding political conditions in Cuba. As I have reported, the representatives of those countries in Habana have frequently expressed the belief that the policy we have so far carried out in Cuba met with the complete support and approval of their own Governments.