838.51/2751: Telegram
The Minister in Haiti (Armour) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 3:48 p.m.]
131. Reference Department’s telegram No. 84 of December 1, 6 p.m.79 Letter referred to therein did not arrive by the plane which left Miami morning of December 3.
President Vincent showed me this morning the following telegram from Barau, dated Montevideo, December 3, sent in reply to telegraphic request for further details:
“New notes exchanged. Secretary of State is telegraphing Department of State that from that distance he could not settle the Haitian question but if the Haitian Government proposes the replacement of the Fiscal Representative by the National Bank for service of the debt or proposes other measures the Department of State should consider Haitian propositions sympathetically in accordance with present American policy, without losing sight of the obligations of the American Government in the question.”
Does the Department propose to release the text of President Roosevelt’s reply to President Vincent’s letter November 16? If so, I should appreciate being informed when this is done.
- Not printed; the letter under reference was President Roosevelt’s letter of November 29 to President Vincent, which had been forwarded by air mail to the Minister in Haiti in despatch No. 109, December 2, but was not received and delivered until December 5. (838.51/2744 supp., 2767, 2754)↩