Office of the Historian

837.61351/3640: Telegram

The Ambassador in Cuba (Braden) to the Secretary of State

Habana, February 9, 1943—10 p.m.
[Received 10:13 p.m.]

96. For Duggan. My airgrams numbers 254 and 260 of February 6.77 The Prime Minister has just submitted to me a revised and official [Page 160] memorandum78 in the precise form suggested to him last Friday. It submits as a formal counterproposal the provisions set forth in the Department’s telegram No. 127, January 28, 9 p.m. (except relative to molasses offer which is declined, the definite earmarking of 100,000 tons for relief and the segregation, 375 tons for refined sugar and the syrups), the respective paragraphs being followed by parenthetical statements in the form of “Expressions of hope”. The revised memorandum concludes with an annex covering (a) the Cuban Government’s molasses proposal and (b) a request that consideration be given to liquidating the 1942 crop by March 15 next.

[Here follows a description of the additions and modifications that appear in the Prime Minister’s revised memorandum.]

Braden
  1. Neither printed.↩
  2. This memorandum, partially printed infra, is the revision of an informal proposal discussed by Prime Minister Zaydín and Ambassador Braden on February 5 and quoted at length in airgram A–254.↩