Office of the Historian

839.51/2438:Telegram

The Minister in the Dominican Republic (Russell) to the Secretary of State

Santo Domingo, July 16, 1924—noon.
[Received 11:05 a.m.]

41. Your 28, July 11, 3 p.m. Nominations of Ariza and Alvarez21 confirmed by the Senate yesterday and Dominican Government complying with the formalities of the occasion desire to know whether Ariza is persona grata. Matter of short-time loan of two and one half millions22 was presented to Congress and referred to Finance Committee of the Senate.

Russell
  1. Frederico G. Alvarez, Secretary of the Dominican Legation.↩
  2. The same loan that had previously been proposed for $2,000,000.↩