837.61351/3646: Airgram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Braden) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 12—10 a.m.]
A–276. For Duggan. My telegram No. 96, February 9, 10 p.m. There follows the text of the revised memorandum (Cuban counterproposal) handed me by Zaydín yesterday evening:
“1. The Cuban Government in view of the results obtained in the negotiations begun in Washington in November 1942 for the sale of sugar of the 1943 crop can now with the agreement of the Cuban producers present to the Government of the United States of America a proposal definitely making possible the aforesaid operation in accordance with the bases for a contract outlined as follows:
“This memorandum entirely replaces the memoranda of December 5, 8, and 17, 1942,79 the note delivered in Washington on January 1 of this year,80 since it comprises all the essential questions covered in the course of these negotiations in an effort to solve the problem, in the desire of the Cuban Government to agree upon the operation referred to.
[Here follow the remaining 13 points and 2 parenthetical statements referred to in telegram No. 96, printed supra.]
- Memorandum of December 5 not found in Department files; for memoranda of December 8 and 17, 1942, see Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. vi, pp. 337 and 339, respectively.↩
- Not found in Department files.↩