Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Hay to Mr. Choate.

Department of State,
Washington, July 12, 1902.

No. 956.]

Sir: The minister of the United States at Habana, in his No. 45, of the 28th ultimo, writes that Mr. Lionel Carden, His British Majesty’s minister resident at that city, and formerly consul-general there, acted for this Government at the request of the War Department during the period of intervention by the United States and also since the establishment of the Cuban Republic.

You are instructed to express to His Majesty’s Government this Government’s appreciation of and thanks for Mr. Carden’s kindness and courtesy in the matter.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.