837.01/50: Telegram
The Secretary of State72 to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 3:55 p.m.]
17. An evening paper yesterday and a morning paper today, both of Montevideo, published what purported to be an interview with me in which I was quoted as being in favor of recognition of the present government in Cuba and as having expressed an opinion on other questions pending. I have given no interview whatever since I left the United States and have only given out statements already transmitted to you. Believe interview above referred to was an adaptation of an Associated Press article giving the opinion of a correspondent on attitude which might be taken by our Government on questions discussed.
In this adaptation local newspapers deliberately put Associated Press opinion into quotations as if I had uttered them.
Will be careful to keep you informed of all authorized statements.
- At Montevideo as Chairman of the American Delegation to the Seventh International Conference of American States.↩