837.61351/4219: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Braden) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:50 p.m.]
632. Embassy’s No. 627, September 21, 8 p.m.8 Local representative of Tinguaro reports that he has orders from his company “to resist so far as possible” any Government action taken in accordance with presidential decree appointing interventor.9 By “resistance” he presently means such actions as reducing bank accounts to a minimum and serving notice on insurance, railroad and power companies and Tinguaro employees that company does not admit legality of Government occupation and will not be responsible for indebtedness contracted by the interventor.
The Tinguaro representative states he has not obtained a copy of the decree in question which has not yet been promulgated; however, the interventor has promised to inform the company before he leaves for Tinguaro to take over.
Tomorrow morning I propose formally to request Minister of State10 to keep the Embassy advised in this matter and simultaneously to inform him of our Government’s position as expressed in Department’s 726, July 17, 9 p.m.11
- Not printed.↩
- Cuban Decree No. 2716, published in Gaceta Oficial, September 24, 1943.↩
- Emeterio S. Santovenia.↩
- Not printed; Department policy, as presented to the Ambassador in this telegram, was conveyed to the Cuban Government in essentially the same words in the Ambassador’s note No. 1029 of September 23, infra.↩