838.20/10: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Haiti (Mayer)

42. Your despatch no. 185, of June 3. The Department after due consideration authorizes you to continue in your discretion conversations with respect to an American Military Mission for the Garde d’Haiti. You may say that while the initiative must in any case come from the Haitian Government, this Government would be prepared to consider sympathetically any request that the Haitian Government might make for such a mission.

It is the Department’s idea that any military mission to Haiti would, as you have said to Leger, serve in an advisory rather than an executive capacity, and that in all matters of policy it would subordinate itself to the Legation.

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