837.00/4213: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:14 a.m. (p.m.?)]
370. Negotiations between Mendieta and Batista will be resumed tomorrow. In a conference I had with the former this evening he expressed his willingness to make any personal sacrifice which might be necessary to bring about the formation of a national government.
Owing to the growing dissension between the students and Batista the latter intimated his desire today for immediate change in the present situation and expressed the belief that conditions in the Army now warranted his proceeding with conversations with Colonel Mendieta.