Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereupon, Cuba assumed a de facto sovereignty over the island which has continued to the present day. President Roosevelt referred the treaty to the Senate for ratification, and there the treaty has remained to the present day. Every President and nearly every Secretary of State since then has recommended its ratification. But the treaty has stagnated. Senator Lodge before his death arranged a place on the Senate calendar for its consideration. At last it is to be acted upon...
...that it belonged to the United States. I do not think that the treaty protects their rights." If the treaty should be rejected and the Senate should instruct the President to take steps to raise the U. S. flag over the Isle of Pines, an acute situation would result. Cuba's Latin emotions would flare up. She would cry: "Outrage!" Our relations with her would be strained. The effect of such action would spread throughout Latin America, where it would be seized upon as another example of U. S. "imperialism...
More than a quarter of a century has rolled by since Cuba was freed from Spanish rule by the successful conclusion of the Spanish-American War. Those were days when Colonel "Teddy" Roosevelt's Rough Riders rendered inestimable service to the cause of Cuba...
With this in mind, the Cubans not long ago erected a memorial to the late ex-President of the U. S., as Colonel of the Rough Riders, on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba on the Avenida de Roosevelt and the Avenida de la Republica...
...President. Such was the enthusiastic welcome given her that she could not for a moment restrain the tears that coursed naturally down her cheeks. Mrs. Roosevelt and her party were met at Havana, the capital, by President Zayas, his ministers and General Enoch H. Crowder, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...