740.00111 A.R.–Subs/9: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Messersmith) to the Secretary of State
Habana, June 20,
1940—1 p.m.
[Received 1:17 p.m.]
[Received 1:17 p.m.]
68. Embassy’s telegram No. 65, June 17, noon. Press publishes a Presidential decree dated June 1726 excluding belligerent submarines identical with the provisions on that subject contained in the President’s Proclamation of November 4.
Messersmith
- Decree No. 1603, June 17, 1940, revising Decree No. 2073 of September 1, 1939; for text, see Pan American Union, Law and Treaty Series No. 15, p. 1, or Official Gazette, June 21, 1940.↩