837.00/4292: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 28—2:18 a.m.]
406. Batista has sent word tonight that he is in full accord that Mendieta as Provisional President with a Cabinet of outstanding men and a legislative assembly composed of representatives of all political factions, labor, commerce, finance and the university is the only solution that promises success. He has informed Mendieta that he will at once take the necessary steps to carry out this program. He has, however, indicated that he desires Carbo appointed Secretary of the Interior and War. Neither the opposition parties, the commercial groups, nor Mendieta himself, will agree to the proposal. Negotiations on this point will continue tonight and it appears probable that the insistence of Batista for this appointment will be abandoned.