File No. 811.34537/50.
The American Minister to the Secretary of State.
Habana, February 22, 1911.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt yesterday of the Department’s instruction No. 238, of the 17th instant,1 and to state in order that any subsequent misunderstanding may be prevented that the whole question of the extension of our naval station at Guantánamo will remain in abeyance until some reply can be made in regard to the matters referred to by the Cuban secretary of state in his note of which a copy and translation were inclosed in my dispatch No. 623, of February 11. While favorably disposed toward granting what we want, the Cuban Government is anxious to obtain some real or apparent concession in return, which would contribute to make the extension, etc., popular.
I have, etc.,
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