838.20/11: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Haiti (Mayer)
46. Your 62, June 13, 3 p.m. You may inform the Minister for Foreign Affairs that this Government, after consideration of the official request of the Haitian Government for an American Military Mission to act in an advisory capacity with respect to the Garde d’Haiti is pleased to agree in principle to furnish such a mission.
For your strictly confidential information the Department is giving consideration to the question whether the members of this mission should be chosen from the Army or from the Marine Corps and would be pleased to receive any views that you may care to submit in this connection.