839.00/2761: Telegram
The Commissioner in the Dominican Republic (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 17—2:16 a.m.]
63. A decree was promulgated by the Provisional President on November 12 postponing the elections due to be held November 14 and stating that the date for holding them would be proclaimed in the immediate future.
Conferences between the Presidential candidates, their advisers and myself are progressing satisfactorily and I trust that final details of the agreement referred to in my cipher telegram of November 9, 9 a.m., will be shortly determined once this is accomplished. A further decree will be immediately issued by the Provisional President announcing that the elections will be held 45 days from the date of the decree’s issuance.