710.Consultation(2)/237b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Cuba (Messersmith)
97. Personal for Messersmith. I am sending you in another telegram the composition of our delegation. This being a consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, we shall have no delegates except myself and we have felt it advisable to keep our delegation as small as possible, confining the other personnel to a small group of advisers selected almost entirely from the Department. While the President and I personally would have been delighted to have had you on the delegation as an adviser, it has been felt better to follow the precedent established at Panama and not include the chief of our diplomatic mission in the country where the meeting is to be held. It will be a great comfort to me personally, however, to have the benefit of your wise counsel and sound judgment on the problems before the meeting and I am looking forward with the greatest pleasure to seeing you there.