Evening star., 1929-12-14

| ident Machado, and as special favor
to me, wish you would ask President
Machado to write a personal letter to
| Crowder congratulating him on the
| memorandum and thanking him for
! agreeing to devote himself to the Cuban
| cause in Washington and explaining to
| Crowder the Presidents belief that
Crowder will be of great advantage to
Cuba in this matter.
Praise for Crowder Asked.
"Of course, you know Crowder, and a
little praise of this sort will do a lot
of good and make him enthusiastic.
Naturally you know more than do
| about the diplomatic features. Shat
| tuck and I are both in constant touch
| with the Ambassador and keep him
fully informed of what we are doing,
but naturally he Is not always at lib
erty to tell us what he is doing. do
not expect him to do SO because his
work is of a confidential nature for
the benefit Of his government. Never
theless, he does inform us of every
thing that it is proper for him to tell.
and we will appreciate his courtesy and
admire his work.
"The plan is an attempt to put in
particular form some general principles
with which we know President Hoover
is in sympathy. Our knowledge Of the
desire of President Hoover Is accurate,
but naturally the sources OF our knowl-
edge should not be stated in writing.
| This particular matter of plan Tor
helping both the beets and Cuba Is
strictly one which we must leave to
Mr.. Shattuck'S discretion. The reason
for that you, of course, understand.
can only say that in my opinion the
best thing that I have done Tor CUBA
in this matter was to obtain the un-
divided services and attention of Mr.
ShattlIck. and I know that you will
agree with me and hope that all other
| Cubans will be satisfied to accept your
opinion that we must not attempt to
dictate to Mr.. Shattuck how he shall
! operate.
Need More Than $85,00O.
1--WE shall need more than $4,000
which have secured. ] do not know
how much more money ! can get In
New York. I think that we Will neec
$50. 600 in all. Shattuck tells me thai
YOU in Cuba have been anxious to par
ticipate in the supplying of funds. Thai
is a matter which I should like to dis
cuss with you when see you.
81 have received wonderful lettel
from President Machado to which an
replying briefly because it is difficult
for me to put letter into Spanish, anc
I assume that you will communicate
with him the entire contents of thi'
letter.
"I have some doubt about the effec.
tiyeness of the American Chamber o.
Commerce. This matter is not cnt
which can be handled as a lobbying
proposition 1t is the custom of tht
best interests to maintain lobby il
washington. I thing that eventually
the Cuban interests should have {
permanent Office in Washington, but tbr
fact that Cuba is a foreign countr.
makes the old-fashioned lobbying dan
gerous for it to undertake. Moreover
lobbying is no longer popular in Wash
ington, and l am informed tnat tht
beet interests do not now lind tha
their old-fashioned methods Of lobbying
are successful and that they would bt
in disfavor in Washington If they die
not have Senator Smoot for thei
champion. On the other hand, any i'll
dividual member of the American
Chamber of Commerce acting unofficial
ly might be able to accomplish som'
good results in Washington by direc
conferences with members OF Congress
and other members of the Government
do not approve of unguided enter
tainment of members of Congress. Tha
form of lobbying is no longer fashion
able in Washington"