611.3731/990: Telegram
The Chargé in Cuba (Matthews) to the Secretary of State
Habana, August 23, 1934—8
p.m.
[Received 8:13 p.m.]
[Received 8:13 p.m.]
443. Department’s telegram No. 175, August 23, 11 a.m. [noon].71 Cuban authorities do not concur in changes listed in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 10, and state that these changes will not therefore appear in the decree law.
The President now proposes to sign the decree law tomorrow morning at 10:30. However, it will be physically impossible to publish [Page 169] the decree law in the Official Gazette before Saturday at the earliest. No decree law is binding until published in the Official Gazette.
Matthews
- Not printed; it conveyed proposed changes in the Spanish nomenclature or schedule I (611.3731/986c).↩