837.00/4607: Telegram
The Personal Representative of the President (Caffery) to the Acting Secretary of State
Habana, January 14,
1934—noon.
[Received 1:15 p.m.]
[Received 1:15 p.m.]
14. My No. 12, January 14, 3 p.m. [a.m.] I think it is safe to say that a government headed by Mendieta and supported by Batista will represent a majority of the Cuban people: both of them without question are extremely popular in very different sectors of the public.
I again respectfully urge immediate action in order to avert a catastrophe: the only other section of the public which has any chance of reaching power at this time is the extreme left.
Caffery