611.3731/910: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Cuba (Caffery)
149. Your 396, August 15. Since the last exception in the proviso of new Article V is clearly intended to apply to control programs such as the sugar and tobacco, you may agree to the deletion of the phrase “other than dutiable sugar or tobacco or dutiable products thereof”. In order that there may be a clear understanding, however, please present an aide-mémoire explicitly stating that the exception covers the import restrictions imposed or to be imposed by this Government on sugar and tobacco.
The word “is” before the word “restricted” should be changed to “may be.”