837.00/3559: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Welles) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 1:30 p.m.]
94. My 91, June 22, 4 p.m. I am informed that within the next few days certain of the opposition factions will publish in the United States declarations of the reasons which have caused them to accept my tender of good offices. Probably a good many of these declarations which will be intended to appeal to the most radical of the members of the opposition, will either misconstrue or exaggerate the essential character of my services. It will be helpful if the Department [Page 315] would refuse to issue any opinion regarding such declarations and merely limit itself to stating that the official interpretation given by the Cuban Government to my tender of good offices is clearly defined in the editorial in the Government organ Heraldo de Cuba of June 22 of which portions were quoted in my telegram under reference and full copy and translation of which are being sent to the Department today by air mail.