The Ambassador in Cuba
(Welles) to the Secretary of State
HABANA, September 5, 1933 - 11 a.m.
[Received 12:45 p.m.]
193. Sergeant Batista accompanied by Sergeant Santana called to see me
at the Embassy… Neither of them seems to have any clear conception of what
the movement of the soldiers and non-commissioned officers is responsive
to. The purport of their visit was to ascertain what my attitude was towards
the so-called revolutionary group and whether the installation of a government
headed by this group would be favorably regarded by the Government of the
United States. I replied that I had no comment to make.
I inquired what steps they had taken to preserve the maintenance of
public order in Habana and while in their reply they proffered most ample
assurances it was made quite plain that no measures whatever had been taken
in the sense beyond the stationing of soldiers outside of the foreign embassies
and legations and the foreign banks. I concluded by stating that I would
be glad to see them at any time they wished to call here.
WELLES