Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, The American Republics, Volume VII

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The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Cuba (Braden)

No. 3064

Washington, April 5, 1944.

Sir: Reference is made to the Embassy’s despatch no. 6080 of February 22, 1944 concerning the disposition of aids to navigation installed at Puerto de Nuevitas and Manzanillo.

You will note from the Navy Department’s letter of December 9, 1943, a copy of which was forwarded with the Department’s instruction no. 2083 [2683] of December 22,¹² that the Navy Department was without authority to relinquish title to these navigation aids, but is agreeable to permitting them to remain in place after the war. In view of the fact that the Cuban Government has made property available for the installation of lights on shore and has made other space available for the maintenance of these aids to navigation, you may inform the Cuban Government that aids to navigation installed at Puerto de Nuevitas and Manzanillo will be permitted to remain in place after the end of the war.¹³

Very truly yours,

For the Secretary of State:

G. Howland Shaw

12. Neither printed.
13. The Cuban Government wag so informed in Embassy’s note No. 283, April 6, 1944; copy transmitted to the Department in despatch 6577 of April 10; neither printed.