File No. 837.00/760.
The Special Representative of President Gómez to the Secretary of State.
My Dear Mr. Secretary: Availing myself of your kind condescension in offering me an opportunity to express what I think might be stated by your Minister in Cuba, with the object of giving our Government the prestige that in my humble opinion has been lessened in the eyes of its enemies by the interpretations given to the recent well meant acts of the Government of the United States, I would suggest that he say that the Government of the United States sees with satisfaction that the Government of Cuba proceeds with great activity in the repression of the movement that has been misnamed a revolution and which is localized in a section of the Oriental province, and also expects that its efforts soon will be crowned by such complete success as will reaffirm the Cuban Government on its own basis and show that even in a social crisis it can maintain its supreme authority.
That the Government of the United States, when it sent ships of war to Cuban waters and landed marines to guard the property of foreigners in Cuba against outrages that violate every right, had no intention of performing an act of interference in the internal affairs of the Cuban nation which are entrusted to the latter’s Government, but on the contrary, as it would have acted in other countries, its desire has been to prevent dangers to the lives and property of foreigners, its action benefitting without any doubt the cause of the constituted order in Cuba.
It is also the firm intention of the Government of the United States to pay no heed to private interests that may have aspirations contrary to those of the majority of the Cuban people, whose only representative is the legally constituted Government.
Such declarations, made in Cuba by your representative, would calm the unrest of the people, whose greatest aspiration is the independence [Page 264] of the Republic, would give the Government that confidence and assurance that you and I believe to be so necessary in the present circumstances.
Believe me [etc.]