837.00/4500: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Welles) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 1:30 p.m.]
514. My 513, December 11, midnight. The Uruguayan Minister late last night went to the office of the Associated Press to state that he had never made any such statements as those transmitted by the Associated Press and quoted in my telegram under reference. He requested that the story be killed. When he was told that this was impossible he requested that a new statement be transmitted in place of the one which he had actually previously made in which all reference to myself was omitted.
In view of the action taken I do not consider any statement by me necessary particularly since none of the statements originally made are carried by the local press for this morning.