837.00/4082: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:20 p.m.]
328. Martínez Saenz informed me this morning that the Uruguayan Consul here had advised him earlier that he and the Chargé d’Affaires [Page 461] of Chile and the Chargé d’Affaires of Mexico were offering to mediate between the government and the opposition to help find a solution of the present problem. He told me he had replied that he felt that no effort of this kind would be successful unless I agreed to join and requested my opinion. He also said he was confident Grau San Martín would not accept the offer.
I replied that I would of course welcome any effort by the diplomatic representatives of American Republics to help the Cubans reach a solution of their difficulties and that I could only express my sincere hope for their success; that I appreciated his reference to myself but that I felt it would be advisable not to raise the question of my participation.